DATE: to be reschedule for 2021
LOCATION: Greenboro Physiotherapy and Massage Clinic, 4-25 Tapiola Crescent, Ottawa, ON, K1T2J7
TO REGISTER:
Contact Luis Ramirez at lylcanada@hotmail.com or text 613 762 5168
Owner of Greenboro Physiotherapy and Massage clinic. https://www.greenboroclinic.ca
DESCRIPTION: This is a two parts course: DAY 1 is “Foods” as a non pharmacy intervention for pain and chronic illness. DAY 2 is peripheral neurogenic pain: neural entrapment to neural dysfunction exercise prescriptions.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Medical Doctors, Psychologists, Athletic Trainers, Massage Therapists, Personal Trainers and any other practitioners who are involved in treating and managing musculoskeletal pain.
“Foods” as a non pharmacy intervention for pain and chronic illness
This day of the course will fine tune clinical reasoning for the selection of foods as a non-pharmacy intervention for pain, chronic illness and disease. If you have ever suspected that not everyone should eat the same thing or do the same exercise, you are right! In fact, what food we absorb well and how our bodies handle stress differ in phases of healing and wellness. Your stage of inflammation, recovery and wellness reflect your internal chemistry; it is the key that unlocks the mysteries of disease, pain, longevity, fitness, emotional strength and how we heal.
The food you eat determines your susceptibility to illness and prevents the most troubling health diseases. Foods are the most frequently introduced chemicals to the body and considered an intervention for pain and disease. The chemical reactions brought into the body through foods can be positive or negative. In conjunction with the healthy state of the liver and gut, they can alter the response to treatment for pain and chronic illness.
Recent ongoing literature suggests a non-pharmacy intervention for pain and disease, in the area of healthy eating including a whole food plant-based diet. The function of the liver, the microbiome of the gut, and the integrity of the gut lining play an integral role in inflammation. Whole food plant-based eating offers an individualized lifestyle health plan that is right for your patients. Gentle detox and balancing protocols for the liver, adrenal glands, gut, and thyroid can reactivate an immune system causing remission to many autoimmune and neurological diseases. The inflammatory mechanism may have a chemical component systemically in the tissues, such as, cytokines, lipopolysaccharides, chronic infection or histamine, etc. The patient’s inflammatory symptoms can reflect the immune system’s stress and inability to heal the body. A person with an autoimmune condition will have more pre-existing inflammatory molecules present in the body compared to a person without. Therefore, an intervention focused on foods can alter the rate of healing and the overall outcome. The “Root Cause” to the inflammatory cascade and immune system stress response identified within the foods people select can be the missing link to sustained benefits from pain and remission for chronic illness.
The World of Hurt “Foods” course will introduce an eclectic scientific based framework involving the four blood types O, A, B, and AB, ketogenic diets, and whole food plant-based eating to individualize food selection for healthy immune systems. In addition, fundamental protocols for the liver, adrenal glands, thyroid and gut to promote a healthy immune system will be discussed. Each person can greatly benefit from its own exercise regimen, meal plans, and vitamin supplements that can be identified within this simplistic framework.
Peripheral Neurogenic Pain:
Neural entrapment to neural dysfunction exercise prescriptions.
This day of the course, the focus will be about information critical to the assessment and treatment of patients dominated by Nociceptive Pain Mechanisms involving the peripheral nerve. The Peripheral Neurogenic Pain Mechanism (PNPM) requires specific neurodynamic mechanical exercise prescriptions as well as pain neuro-immune science education about peripheral nerves and the pain alarm system.
Outlining Chapter Five and Six of “A World of Hurt: A Guide to Classifying Pain,” pain clinicians will learn how to assess and classify neurogenic nociceptive pain mechanisms as either “trapped,” “tight,” or “sensitive” utilizing neurodynamic evaluation testing and clinical reasoning. This course assists identifying neural entrapments, dysfunctions, and/or the beginning signs of central sensitivity in both the upper, lower body, and spine. This pain neuro-immune science course provides interventions in patient education for neurogenic conditions and specific prescriptive neurodynamic exercises for each neurogenic mechanical problem. This course includes an active manual therapy workshop for common upper and lower body neural entrapment sites and local tissue treatments. In addition, a workshop dedicated to both active neurodynamic exercise progression and passive neurodynamic testing and mobilization. Video, paper cases and live patient demonstrations (when available) will aid application to each clinician’s practice by understanding the importance of the specific “words” and “moves” necessary to reverse neurogenic mechanical nociceptive pain mechanisms.
COURSE INSTRUCTORS:
Annie O’Connor MSPT, OCS, Cert. MDT
She is a Physiotherapist. She has earned the title of Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, which is a board specialization through the American Physical Therapy Association. She is also the Chief Clinical Officer for the Musculoskeletal Partnership at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, formerly known as the Rehab Institute of Chicago.
She is founder and CEO of World of Hurt LLC a company dedicated to teaching, research, consulting and clinical practice of pain Mechanism Classification System for pain related disability.
She co-authored 2017, Therapeutic Exercise chapter, in Orthopaedic Knowledge Update Spine 5, with the American Academy for Orthopaedic Surgeons publisher
She co-authored the September 2016 Journal Article “Validation of a pain mechanism classification system (PMCS) in physical therapy practice” in JMMT.
She co-authored in 2015 an incredible book called A World of Hurt: A Guide to Classifying Pain.
Annie lectures nationally and internationally on musculoskeletal pain classification and intervention, neurodynamic evaluation and treatment, mechanical diagnosis and therapy of spine and extremities, kinetic chain evaluation, and functional manual therapy and exercise prescription
It is a privilege to have a world class speaker in Canada offering the latest insights in the integral treatment of musculoskeletal pain.
Melissa Watson. MSPT, Cert. MDT
She is a Physiotherapist. She has over 16 years of clinical experience in neurological physical therapy rehabilitation specializing in pain, spasticity, and functional return.
She performs the consultations for pain, spasticity, and functional exercise progression for the Day Rehabilitation locations at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (SRALAB). She is currently leading a Neurological Day Rehab Multi center Pain Group Clinical Committee at SRALAB on implementing the research into clinical practice.
She is presenting at two national conferences including the Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy Conference and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine on non-pharmacy treatment for spasticity in the neurological patient presenting the Pain Mechanism Classification System (PMCS) as a way to decide therapeutic exercise. She was instrumental in leading an IRB approved multi center research project on the Yellow Flag Risk Form (YFRF) in the neurological practice validating its use in measuring pain related suffering in neurological patients.
Melissa is co-authoring a book “World of Hurt: Treat Your Own Pain”.
USEFUL REFERENCES IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ANNIE’S WORK
• Annie has been interviewed by leading msk podcasters :https://drjoetatta.libsyn.com/episode-117-helping-a-world-of-hurt-with-annie-oconner-mspt
• Episodes 114, 115, 251, 252 of the mechanical care forum with Jason Ward
https://www.forwardthinkingchiro.com/ftcacast//2019/7/ftca-podcast-43-annie-oconnor-pt-a-world-of-hurt
https://drsusieg.com/podcast/a-world-of-hurt
https://www.ptpintcast.com/2017/05/30/201-annie-oconnor-pain-preferred-direction-canine-pt/
• You can see multiple short educational videos in the twitter account: @WorldofHurt2 and her website: https://worldofhurt2.com
• Contents of her book, A WORLD OF HURT: A GUIDE TO CLASSIFYING PAIN:
Chapter 1: Musculoskeletal Pain: the Big Picture.
Chapter 2: Overview of the Pain Mechanism Classification System and Mechanical
Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT)
Chapter 3: Subjective Evaluation.
Chapter 4: Nociceptive Pain Mechanisms: Inflammation and Ischemia.
Chapter 5: Peripheral Neurogenic Pain Mechanism.
Chapter 6: Central Sensitization Pain Mechanism.
Chapter 7: Affective Pain Mechanism.
Chapter 8: Motor/Autonomic Pain Mechanisms.