July 10, 2010 • Fresno, CA (COURSE CLOSED)(Early Registration Deadline: June 19, 2010) Location: Holiday Inn Fresno Airport Early Registration Fee: $225.00 Special Price: $150.00
Course Description
This exciting, hands-on course combines a colorful, graphic slide show, extensive hands-on lab experience and the unique opportunity to use the latest laser and decompression equipment. By giving doctors and therapists clinical hands-on experience with state-of-the art technologies, each clinician will gain the practical and theoretical knowledge of how to treat serious acute and chronic spine problems, including herniated disks, facet syndromes, and spondylolisthesis. Time will also be spent sports injuries, acute and chronic pain, soft tissue trauma, post surgical conditions, stenosis, and more. The course includes extensive, innovative evidence based protocols and teaches the integration of laser therapy with joint mobilization, decompression, manual therapy, exercise, taping. and other modalities. There will be information presented on contraindications, billing procedures, proper clinical use of equipment, and how clinical excellence will create a thriving and fulfilling clinical practice. In addition, there will be the latest research on how lasers and decompression can broaden your patient population and increase your revenue.
Course Objectives
- Be able to use a low power or high powered light laser devices to treat soft tissue injuries, wounds, trauma, spine and sports injuries.
- Be familiar with the evidence based research supporting light and laser therapy.
- Be able to determine safe and effective light and laser parameters for numerous
- neuromusculoskeletal syndromes.
- Understand the difference between traction and decompression
- Understand how to differentiate herniated disks from other diagnoses
- Be competent performing the tests to differentially evaluate mildly from moderately herniated disks
- Be able to evaluate a herniated disk even if there are no positive orthopedic tests
- Be able to institute a rehab program for various types of disk disorders
- Have the skill to determine what type of decompression table settings to use with different disorders
- Know the contraindications for decompression
- Understand how to develop an exercises program for disks, facet syndromes, subluxations, and instability.
Who Should Attend?
Therapists and doctors interested in learning how to master light and laser therapy as well as decompression and disk disorders.
Agenda
8:30am Registration & Check-In
9:00am Laser Physics
and Physiology
The difference between total dose in Joules and power
density in Joules/cm²
Why total dose determines nervous system
reaction and Joules/cm² determines technique
What shape is a laser
beam and how that determines technique
Difference between
Destructive and Constructive Laser Therapy
The optimal power and
power density for a cluster or a point probe
How the Optical Window
determines treatment parameters
Diode differences between an LED and
a Laser and how this affects tissue physiology
10:00am How
Laser Science Directs Treatment Parameters
How light affects a
patient on a molecular and cellular level
Membrane permeability
changes that initiate cell specific responses
Tissue effects in
terms of wounds, soft tissue injuries, and pain
How light affects
organs and distant cells with second messengers
Diffusion of light
by transport thru blood vessels and how wavelength affects physiology
How
NO increases vascularization of wound and osteoblastic activity
Strategies
for acute vs. chronic NMS, Acute and chronic wounds, infected ulcers
Treatment
in quarters, thirds, and halves
Frequencies: Is there evidence?
Tissue
types, maximum full body dose, power density and Grid vs. Painting
technique
Quick Scan, Muscle Painting, Nerve Tracing, Hot/Cold
imbalance, and Probe Speed
11:00am Break
11:15am Soft Tissue Injuries
and Light Therapy
The unique use of light for sports Injuries
How
Light Affects Analgesia by effect on nerve fibers and natural opiods.
How
light decreases edema, improves lymph flow, increases fibrin and
collagen
Treating tendinitis, soft tissue injury and trigger points,
acute and chronic pain
How Light Affects Muscles, Tendons,
Ligaments, and Bone due to trauma
Research supporting use of light
and laser for pain and soft tissue injuries
FDA regulations, State
laws, Local laws and professional rules
Contraindications regarding
cancer, eye irradiation, steroid injections, photosensitizers, epilepsy,
bacterial infections, thyroid gland, pregnancy, and immune suppressant
drugs.
30 minutes of lab practice: How light affects nerve function
12:15pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
1:15pm Decompression
What is traction?
History
of traction and decompression
Early uses of traction for fractures,
discs, etc
Definition of terms: Traction, Decompression, Long axis
extension
Science of traction: Evidence based studies of traction
Chemical,
physical, and physiological effects on disks and joints
When do you
mobilize, use soft tissue therapies and when do you traction?
2:15pm
What is a Disk Problem and How is it Treated?
Diagnostic Algorithms
for successful low back treatment
Diagnosis of herniated disc vs.
facet syndrome vs. sprain strain
Types of disk syndromes, annular
tears, bulges, frank herniations
Common behaviors that cause disk
herniations
Subclinical disk signs and symptoms
How to be sure
the patient has a herniated disk, without and MRI or CT
How traction
can help facet, disk and spondylolisthesis problems
Exercise
therapy: Stabilization, core strength, flexibility, pain relief by
positioning
3:15pm
Break
3:30pm Integrating Joint Mobilization with Decompression
Joint
mobilization vs manipulation and why each has a place in rehab
Sacroiliac
vs. facet vs disk treatments and how the treatment programs vary
Different
types of mobilization including, grade 1-4, mobilization with movement,
muscle energy, etc.
Patient positioning for lumbar mobilization
Different
types of mobilization procedures: Dynamic Mobilization
Using the
DM-TBar to mobilize lower facet joints
How to plan a low back rehab
program based on initial exam and how to stage it
How to use Kinetic
Taping with low back pain
4:30pm Hands on Lab with Lasers, Decompression, and
Mobilization
Each student will be given the opportunity to treat
and experience laser therapy, joint mobilization and decompression
5:30 Question
and Answer
CEUs / PDUs / Contact Hours
A certificate of
attendance will be presented to each participant for 7 contact hours.
The Physical Therapy Board of California has approved California
Education Connection to offer approved courses. This course is eligible
for 0.7 CEUs for PTs and PTAs practicing in California. California
Education Connection is recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc.
to provide continuing education for CERTIFIED ATHLETIC TRAINERS. BOC
approved provider number is P2959. CEC is an AOTA Approved Provider of
continuing education.This course is eligible for 0.7 CEUs from the AOTA.
The AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or
clinical procedures. This course will also count toward the PDU
requirement for OTRs / COTAs in the State of California. The California
Board of Chiropractic Examiners has approved this course for 7 hrs / 4
Technique (CA-A-10-02-4969).
Speaker
Curtis Turchin, M.A., D.C. has been using lasers for the treatment of acute and chronic pain for more than 25 years. He was Director of Clinical Sciences for Bales Scientific, the developer of the first FDA cleared light device. He has published 3 books, more than 20 journal articles, and has been extensively interviewed on radio and television. Dr. Turchin is the author of the new text, Light and Laser Therapy: Clinical Procedures, described as the authoritative text on clinical laser treatment as well as Treating Addictions with Laser Therapy, the only book published on this unique subject. He has been using many types of traction for 25 years including Cox-Flexion traction, Motorized Flexion Traction, Inversion and Decompression. Dr. Turchin has taught therapists and doctors in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Brazil, Canada, and Guatemala. He has a bachelor's degree in pre-medical studies and psychology from the University of Southern California., a master's degree in education from San Francisco State University, and a doctor of chiropractic from Palmer College West. He is in private practice with a medical doctor, near San Francisco, using joint mobilization, soft tissue work, exercise, decompression and laser therapy.
Early Registration Deadline
The Early Registration deadline is three weeks prior to the start of the course. If your registration is received after the deadline, a $25.00 Late Fee will automatically be applied to the registration fee.
Group Discounts
For every 5 people that sign up for the same seminar, we will give that group one complimentary spot.
How Do We Sign-Up and Qualify for the Free Spot?
In order to qualify for this discount, we must receive all six completed registration forms with the appropriate payment for the five spots. If you want to mail in the completed forms, you must mail all six forms in the same envelope. If you want to fax in the forms, you must fax all six forms at the same time.
Please note that there will be no exceptions granted. We must receive everything at once in order to process these registration forms under the group discount policy.
Refund and Cancellation Policies
California Education Connection reserves the right to cancel this seminar due to an insufficient number of registrants. Under these circumstances, a full refund in the form of a check will be addressed and mailed to the registered participant. Please note that California Education Connection is not responsible for any hotel, airline or other expenses incurred. All cancellations by registered participant must be dated and submitted in writing. For cancellations received 14 days or more before the seminar date, the registration fee will be returned less a $50.00 administrative fee. A refund in the form of a check will be mailed to the registered participant. Within 14 days of the seminar, no refunds will be made. California Education Connection reserves the right to change a course date, location or instructor. If the seminar is either interrupted or canceled by an act of nature, war, or any issue beyond the control of California Education Connection, no refund will be issued.
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