Evaluation and Treatment for Cervical Spine, Headaches, and Whiplash

Evaluation and Treatment for Cervical Spine, Headaches, and Whiplash is a course to improve your range of manual therapy applications. Manual therapy has been shown to be effective in the management of multiple spinal disorders in our profession, especially in conjunction with therapeutic exercise. This course is designed to enhance manual therapy skills, confidence in performing manual therapy techniques, and better patient outcomes. Having uniformity of manual therapy and comfort with manual therapytechniques in our profession is a fundamental skill.

In this 3-hour, lab-intensive course, mobilization, and manipulation techniques from the upper cervical spine to upper thoracic. Whether participants are unfamiliar with more advanced mobilization and manipulation techniques or simply seeking to sharpen their skills, this course will be useful in a high percentage of a physical therapist's outpatient caseload. The course allows for a significant amount of lab time in which participants will get frequent feedback in a relaxed setting to become proficient with manual therapy techniques.The course allows time and education on proper cervicalevaluation, treatment techniques and philosophies to help patients with acute neck pain, headaches, whiplash/WAD,cervical radiculopathy, and chronic neck pain.

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Athletic Trainers

Highlights

This course contains content which may not be relevant to PTA scope of practice in all states. Please see your State Physical Therapy Practice Act to verify this course is acceptable for continuing education.

• Review safety of thrust manipulation and neurological examination with commonly treated patient presentations
• Effective evidence-based treatment interventions basedoff the latest research
• Practice hands on manual therapy skills and learning variations to suit your specific patient needs
• Corrective exercise and manual therapy technique combinations to aid in further recovery