Skills and Performance

This webinar will provide participants with an Evidence Based Approach to the evaluation and treatment of headache patients. It will include a comprehensive presentation on the most updated findings related to sensory and motor impairments of the cervical spine and TMJ and how they are clinically relevant for head pain. Current evidence has shown the role of musculoskeletal impairments in the neck and TMJ which has set the stage for a multisystem approach of evaluation, treatment and management of headache patients.

From functional fatigue to debilitating clinical and chronic fatigue, this session unpacks the complex phenomenon of fatigue and offers insights into its underlying causes. The mechanisms and meaning of muscle and central nervous system fatigue will be described and nutritional strategies to optimise physical and brain performance explored. A special section will examine the latest understandings of chronic fatigue syndromes.

This 2-hour webinar will provide participants with the most updated clinical and evidence-based approach about evaluation, differential diagnosis and management of tendinopathy-related pain. The first part of the lecture will present updated review on pathophysiological and mechanisms of tendinopathy-related pain. A clinical reasoning to identify the predominant source of pain and to determine if a real tendinopathy exists will be discussed applied to two of the most prevalent tendinopathies: supraspinatus and patellar tendon. The lecture will also include a comprehensive presentation on the clinical reasoning about management interventions such as exercise prescription and manual therapy/needling interventions.

The lecture will explore relationships between cardio-respiratory interoception and mental health. Interoception, defined as the brain's representation of internal physiological states, encompasses the sensing, interpreting, and integrating of bodily signals. The presentation will examine how interoceptive processes influence mental health, addressing cognitive biases, distorted sensitivity, and impaired insight found in mental health disorders. Special emphasis is given to cardiac interoception, including EEG-based studies, to show their applications in understanding anxiety, depression, alexithymia, and other mental disorders, and to inform mental health interventions.

In this lecture you will learn about the mechanisms of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), whilst understanding what interventions are helpful to mitigate the negative responses.

The human microbiome and its importance in physiology and health is now mainstream science. The new frontiers in this area now revolve around understanding how to optimise the gut microbiota, the relationship between the microbiome and immunity, psychology and health, and the potential role of microbial metabolites (postbiotics) as anti-ageing and therapeutic interventions. The session explores the latest perspectives in this rapidly progressing area.