How to Get Great Outcomes Treating Back Patients
Lower back pain is one of the most common diagnoses in most health care settings. Management of back pain can be costly, difficult, and often frustrating. Can you meet the demands for positive outcomes, including pain relief and timely return to work, sports, or function all while keeping costs down from insurance companies, third party payers, and patients?

This comprehensive program will give you the opportunity to understand, assess, and treat back problems with great outcomes. Back patients, even the most challenging cases will get better faster. This seminar will make you more efficient, competent, and successful, feeling more in control over your work. The most current information will be shared so you can develop strategies to effectively manage back problems. After this one-day seminar, you will be able to more effectively treat even the most complex back patients and see immediate results.

Course Content

Introduction

u          History of treatment of back pain

u          Role of the therapist in back pain management

u          Functional anatomy

u          Principles of muscular imbalances

u          Mechanisms of back problems

u          Research

u          Evidence-based approach

Evaluation

u          How to design a comprehensive, concise evaluation

u          Subjective: how to obtain pertinent information

u          Objective: how to choose your assessment tools

u          Assessment: how to develop a diagnosis

u          Plan: setting treatment goals and objectives, treatment strategies

u          Determine estimated number of visits and functional outcome

• return to sport
• return to work
• return to optimal independence in ADL

u          Traditional evaluation

u          Functional evaluation of inner and outer core

u          Lab

Treatment Philosophy

u          Traditional model

u          Functional model

Treatment Approach

u          Traditional approach

u          Segmental stabilization

u          Global stabilization

u          Addressing motor control deficits and the role of propriocepsis

u          Education on proper posture and body mechanics

u          Lab

Tips for better results

u          For better compliance

u          How to deal with workman's compensation patients

u          Functional stabilization for specific patient populations

Prevention

u          Education on prevention of back problems

u          How to optimize athletes' performance

Program Development

u          Community back screenings

u          Industrial rehabilitation

u          Back school for injured and high-risk clients

u          Ergonomic assessments

u          How to incorporate lumbar stabilization within a fitness program

Conclusion