Exercise Reframed: Exercises for a Sensitive Nervous System (Australia - July 15)

Details

When: Mondays 7:00 - 10:00 PM EST • July 14, 21 and 28 / Saturdays 9:00 - 12:00 AM AEST • July 15, 22 and 29

This live, online class will span a 3-week period for 3 hours on a weekly basis.

Where: From the comfort of your favorite armchair; you will be paired with a lab partner who will work alongside you in learning the material.

How: All you need to take this live, online course is a Zoom account. We encourage you to sign up for your free Zoom account before the first session. You will receive your Zoom meeting link two weeks before the course begins.

Syllabus

At the end of this course, participants will develop solid skills in order to confidently:

• Assess body image using the Fremantle Questionnaires as it relates to changes in sensory-motor representation; you have to measure sensory-motor changes in order to treat them.
• Prioritize which components of central pain mechanisms to address with individual persistent pain patients (review of SAD CLLIFSS). One size exercise prescription does NOT fit all.
• Understand how changes in sensory-motor representation within a sensitized nervous system require us to move beyond typical therapeutic stretching and strengthening exercises.
• Develop therapeutic skills for addressing sensory-motor changes including novel movement strategies for all of the major joints in the body.
• Teach your patients to create ease of movement using novel movement approaches.Increase your patient’s variability of movement using a functional approach to exercise.

Handouts and audiovisual exercises are included in the cost of the course for simple and effective integration within your clinical practice. This is a lecture-based but predominantly lab-based course. The audiovisual exercises can also be purchased through Embodia Academy for easier patient prescription. You will receive a coupon code to apply towards this one-time resource fee through Embodia Academy should you choose to use their exercise prescription app.

Benefits

Have you ever been frustrated by muscle tension and pain that eases temporarily with treatment or exercise only to return quite quickly?  Persistent pain leads to changes in the cortical mapping areas of the brain leading to sensory-motor dysregulation. Everything that we do is mapped in our brain for ease of movement and function.  But what happens when these maps have a pain neurotag (protective pain response) attached to them?  Our default strategies or maps become linked with protection and pain and it becomes a never-ending cycle.  Novel and non-threatening exercises that engage the sensory-motor cortex are designed to address this very common problem.  Dr. Ben Wand and other researchers have demonstrated that sensory-motor dysregulation is a nearly universal problem in persistent LBP, shoulder pain, neck pain and knee pain.  This course is designed to help you develop a diverse toolbox of sensory-motor regulation exercises to reset muscle tension and pain to its normal, “unprotected” state. This is a great course for kinesthetic learners – you will experience everything firsthand.

A blend of visualization and sensory-based movement programs based on a combination of Feldenkrais and Franklin concepts forms the “remapping component” of this course. As therapists, most of us do not have the time, energy or resources to become certified practitioners in these specialized movement practices. This course takes the wisdom/techniques from each of these practices and puts it into a patient-centred, rehabilitation-focused format that is easy to teach, and enjoyable for your patients.  

These exercises create excellent patient compliance because they are novel, enjoyable and effective, especially when there are documented changes in sensory-motor representation.

Instructor

Carolyn Vandyken, Cert. MDT, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

Carolyn is a physiotherapist, educator, researcher and advocate in the areas of low back pain, pelvic health and pain science. She became an MDT credentialled therapist in 1999, holds a CBT certificate from Wilfred University, and has been practicing in the field of pelvic health for the past 20 years. Practicing as a physiotherapist for 33 years, she teaches post-graduate pelvic health courses that are steeped in pain science and won the Distinguished Education Award from the OPA in 2015 and the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in 2004. Carolyn presents extensively at international conferences and has co-authored multiple chapters and papers on central pain mechanisms and pelvic pain. She is actively involved in research with Dr. Sinead Dufour (McMaster University, Canada) and Dr. Judith Thompson (Curtin University, Australia) and has published multiple studies on the connection between low back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction.

Certificate

Earn a certificate upon completion from Reframe Rehab.

Mentorship

Get ongoing support with free office hours and monthly drop-in sessions with instructors–available indefinitely to all course graduates.

Time Zone

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Participation Policy

• Every participant will receive a certificate for course completion.
• We offer recordings of every session with limited access for one-week. Putting a time limit on the replay forces you to complete the material in a timely fashion which is advantageous over pre-recorded classes, which often get lost in the busy-ness of our lives.⁣
• Recordings will be sent within 24-48 hours of the session. If you haven't received it by the 48 hour mark, please check your junk mail and/or email brittany@reframerehab.com.
• No refunds will be given for missed classes.

Cancellation Policy

• Cancellations that are made 15 days or more in advance of the class start date, will receive a 100% refund by original payment method minus 10% administration fees.
• Cancellations made within 14 days or less of the event will receive a credit towards the same course to be taken within one calendar year. No refunds will be issued in this time period.
• Please let your instructor know if you will be missing a class so that the instructor knows.