Back Pain Course
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Course Title:
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Management of Low Back Pain for Primary Care Providers
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Date:
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October 25, 2013, 8:30 - 5:00 p.m.
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Location:
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The Lister Centre, University of Alberta, 87 Avenue and 116 Street, Edmonton, AB
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Accreditation:
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This event has been approved by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for 6.5 M1 credits.
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Course Description:
This one day interactive course will provide participants with immediate clinical tools and skills that they can employ with their next low back pain (LBP) patient. Dr. Hamilton Hall and Dr. Julia Alleyne have been teaching a primary care approach to low back pain across Canada that not only makes sense to primary care clinicians but is focused on a logical approach to mechanical back pain and illustrated with many clinical examples.
Course Goal: To provide primary care clinicians with evidence based education to improve the management of low back pain in their patients in a shared care interprofessional model.
Course Objectives:
- Describe the current evidence based guidelines for the acute, persistent and recurrent low back pain patient (TOP Alberta)
- Describe the rationale for new models of understanding LBP and integrating them into your current evidence and clinical approach.
- Conduct an efficient high yield evidence-based history for low back pain patients.
- Conduct the physical examination identifying the common patterns of low back pain presentations.
- Effectively apply the relevant clinical decision making to case based scenarios for integration to primary care.
- Apply mechanical therapy to patient cases for office and rehabilitation management.
- Identify the appropriate criteria for evidence-based investigations and referrals.
Who Should Attend:
- Family Physicians, Emergency Physicians, Occupational Health Physicians
- Physiotherapists
- Primary care nurses, occupational therapists and other primary care staff
CME Credits through the Canadian College of Family Physicians application in progress.
