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A Case Study Based Course on the Application of a Biopsychosocial Framework for LBP
Low Back Pain (LBP) is a challenging international problem that is responsible for the highest level of disability compared to any other health condition. Briggs et al (2018) also demonstrated in their meta-analysis that MSK disability has worsened by 62.6% in the first 15 years of the 21 st century. LBP and MSK conditions are the purvey of physiotherapists and other rehabilitation specialists. Globally, we are failing miserably!
What has gone wrong?
Our frameworks are too limited. We have not systematically embraced a whole-person, biopsychosocial framework, which makes room for the tissue components, when relevant. More importantly, as published in The Lancet in 2017, physiotherapists are called upon to embrace a biopsychosocial framework for LBP but have not been adequately trained.
This course will present a framework that will build on mechanical pain to incorporate two key psychosocial factors that must be addressed with everyone with LBP- self-efficacy and catastrophization. Physiotherapists are often worried about staying in their scope of practice in the psychosocial realm. Self-efficacy and catastrophization are two areas of practice that call upon the skills of a physiotherapist, namely, active treatment strategies and pain neurophysiology education.
Pelvic Health considerations in LBP will also be discussed to widen our current tissue-based considerations for LBP. Participants will leave this course with a toolbox of skills that will broaden their approach for every patient that they see with LBP. It will also leave them curious to explore further knowledge and skills in applying a biopsychosocial framework to MSK pain.
Every healthcare professional who is a member of an order or association must complete hours of continuing education each year. All of our courses are designed to help you accumulate these continuing education hours. However, the number of credits may vary depending on your profession and location. The information below is for information purposes only. We recommend that you confirm with your professional order and/or association.
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The instructor speaks in English. However, you have the option of activating English or French subtitles.
Handouts are also available in both languages.
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Each health professional who is a member of a college or association must complete continuing education units (CEU) annually. Here is some information about kinesiologists, physiotherapists and physiotherapy technologists.
Kinesiologist, FKQ
All accredited members of the Fédération des Kinésiologues du Québec (FKQ) must accumulate 30 credits of recognized continuing education every two years from the year of their accreditation. These credits can be obtained from continuing education offered by the FKQ and/or other organizations recognized by the FKQ. In order to facilitate your task of analyzing the credits granted to your course, the FKQ Continuing Education Committee gives you access to an equivalency grid.
For each* of your courses at Bia education, you will receive a certificate of participation confirming the number of hours of course received.
*Excluding course not accessible to kinesiologists, this exclusion will be mentioned in the course description.
Kinesiologist-kinesitherapist, A.K.K.O.M.Q.
All members of the A.K.K.O.M.Q. must accumulate continuing education units. The association intends to ensure the safety and quality of kinesiology and kinesiology-kinesitherapy interventions, by requiring its members to maintain and improve their knowledge through the many continuing education courses offered annually, and to put their skills into practice while respecting the code of ethics. Credits can be obtained from continuing education offered by the FKQ and/or other organizations recognized by the FKQ.
For each* of your courses at Bia education, you will receive a certificate of participation confirming the number of hours of course received.
*Excluding course not accessible to kinesitherapists, this exclusion will be mentioned in the course description.
Physiotherapist and physiotherapy technologist, OPPQ
In the case of physiotherapists, each member must have a minimum of 45 hours of continuing education units (CEU) during the reference period, which is three years. Of these 45 hours, at least 30 hours must be accumulated in formal learning activities. The remaining continuing education hours can be accumulated in autonomous, formal learning activities or in a combination of both categories.
A CEU is equivalent to one hour of course, which is the actual time spent by the member to acquire or update his or her knowledge or skills. In the context of a formal activity, the member is in a learning situation when acting as a participant. Time spent on breaks, meals or any other activity without academic content should therefore be subtracted from the calculation of CEUs.
A formal learning activity is defined as an activity designed and delivered by experts in the subject matter and with a predetermined structure, content, objectives and duration. All the course offered by Bia education are therefore likely to be considered as a formal learning activity. During your course at Bia education, you will receive a certificate attesting to the number of hours of continuous education granted to the event.
Then, it is the physiotherapist’s role to define whether the suggested training theme is related to his or her practice and will allow him or her to optimize his or her professional competence.
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For the majority of the course, you can access the French subtitles by clicking on “cc” in the video window at the bottom right. You can then select the language of your choice and leave them on or off. The handout are also available in French by clicking on “ressources” when you’re on the main course page from your dashboard. You can also select the site language of your choice at the top of the page (En/Fr).
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I’m going to change a lot of things in my treatments as a result of this course.
Well put together. Relevant and useful for my work.
I’ll be able to apply these concepts in my practice
Very relevant and interesting visuals/videos
I liked the different approaches proposed. However, I think the course is aimed more at physiotherapists. There were a lot of questionnaires to use, most of them in English. I would have liked to have had more exercises or references to books to use in my practice with this new knowledge.
Good idea to follow a case from start to finish, but it lacked a bit of concreteness for me, too much time spent on scientific studies and not enough on the types of evaluations or recommendations that can be made.