Continuing Education

Virtual - Cognitive Functional Therapy: Changing Pain and Movement Behavior in Low Back Pain

Featuring Kieran O'Sullivan, PhD, MSc

JANUARY 30-31, 2021 | 7:30AM - 12:00PM (PST)
Course includes 4 hours of independent work to be completed prior to attendance.

Location

The ZOOM Meeting link along with the material for the 4-hour independent portion will be emailed to you a week prior to the course.

Cost

$299 - Early Bird Special (before January 1, 2021)
$349 - After January 1, 2021

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Registration

If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact Gina Braden at  rbraden@georgefox.edu  or 503-554-2450.

Event Details

Kieran O’Sullivan is one of the international researchers who has worked intensively together with Peter O’Sullivan to develop the ‘Cognitive Functional Therapy’ (CFT) intervention. CFT is an approach to the management of persistent pain disorders that considers factors across the biopsychosocial spectrum that contribute to the development and maintenance of a pain disorder. It provides a logical framework allowing skilled clinicians to diagnose, triage, and target management where appropriate. CFT integrates cognitive strategies and functional rehabilitation to change provocative movement and cognitive behaviors that provoke and maintain pain.

This approach has been developed through combining a synthesis of contemporary scientific literature and a body of original research by this collaborative team of international researchers. There is emerging evidence that the CFT approach provides better clinical outcomes than the current best clinical practice in the management of non-specific chronic spinal pain.

This unique online workshop outlines the clinical reasoning, which underpins assessment and management of complex back pain disorders. It combines audio-visual resources and key peer-reviewed papers which are provided in advance. The live workshop is dynamic, interactive and practical, spread over two 4-hour blocks. Clinical reasoning, which includes patient demonstrations, help equip physiotherapists to develop skills in the design of CFT interventions for specific disorders is a key focus.

12 CE credits will be offered at the completion of the course.

 

Dr. Kieran O’Sullivan graduated as a Physiotherapist from University College Dublin in 1999. In 2004 he completed an MSc in Manipulative Therapy at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. In 2005, he started lecturing at the University of Limerick. In 2008 he was awarded specialist member status by the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists. From 2016-2019, he was Lead Physiotherapist at a new Sports Spine Centre at Aspetar, Qatar, before returning to the University of Limerick in 2019. His research interest is musculoskeletal pain and injury, particularly persistent spinal pain. He completed his PhD, funded by the Health Research Board of Ireland, on persistent low back pain. He has published one book, six book chapters and over 140 journal articles. He has obtained over 4m euros in research funding. His research group disseminates its research through www.pain-ed.com, which is an online platform providing advice and information from both patients and clinical researchers on managing musculoskeletal pain. He is currently National Director of Professional Development for the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists, and a member of the Professional Practice working group of the European Region of World Physiotherapy .

Virtual - APTA | Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program (CCIP) - February - REGISTRATION IS FULL

Featuring Paul Shew, PT, DPT

February 20 & 21, 2021

Location

Virtual - Zoom link will be emailed to you.

Cost

$215 - PTs or PTAs who are APTA members
$315 - PTs, PTAs or other professionals who are not APTA members

Registration

If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact Gina Braden at  rbraden@georgefox.edu  or 503-554-2450.

Event Details

This 16-hour CE course addresses issues of planning and preparing for physical therapist students during their clinical internships, developing learning experiences, and supporting ongoing learning through questioning and effective feedback.

Paul Shew, PT, DPT, has been a CCIP Course Trainer since 2014. He has more than 37 years of experience as a physical therapist, including 33 years as a physical therapist for Providence Home Health Division in Portland. For seven of those years he worked as a rehabilitation coordinator for Providence/St. Vincent Home Health in Portland. He holds a doctor of physical therapy degree from Pacific University (2009), a certificate of physical therapy and a bachelor's degree of science from Pacific University (1981), and a bachelor’s degree of science and math from Southern Oregon State College (1979).

 

Virtual - APTA | Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program (CCIP) - March

Featuring Paul Shew, PT, DPT

March 27-28, 2021

Location

Virtual - Zoom link will be emailed to you.

Cost

$215 - PTs or PTAs who are APTA members
$315 - PTs, PTAs or other professionals who are not APTA members

Registration

Please note: Email Linda Dallof at ldallof@georgefox.edu for the course code which you will need to register using the link above.

 

Event Details

This 16-hour CE course addresses issues of planning and preparing for physical therapist students during their clinical internships, developing learning experiences, and supporting ongoing learning through questioning and effective feedback.

Paul Shew, PT, DPT, has been a CCIP Course Trainer since 2014. He has more than 37 years of experience as a physical therapist, including 33 years as a physical therapist for Providence Home Health Division in Portland. For seven of those years he worked as a rehabilitation coordinator for Providence/St. Vincent Home Health in Portland. He holds a doctor of physical therapy degree from Pacific University (2009), a certificate of physical therapy and a bachelor's degree of science from Pacific University (1981), and a bachelor’s degree of science and math from Southern Oregon State College (1979).

 

In-Person - APTA | Credentialed Clinical Instructor Program (CCIP) - POSTPONED

Featuring Paul Shew, PT, DPT & Jeremy Hilliard, PT, DPT

August 22-23, 2020 | 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Postponed! Date to be determined.

Location

George Fox University
Roberts Center - Room 203
501 Villa Road
Newberg, Oregon 

Parking is available in the  Roberts Center parking lot. A parking pass will be issued to you prior to the event.

Cost

$285 - PTs or PTAs who are APTA members
$385 - PTs or PTAs who are not APTA members
$385 - Other professionals

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If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact Gina Braden at  rbraden@georgefox.edu  or 503-554-2450.

Event Details

This 16-hour CE course addresses issues of planning and preparing for physical therapist students during their clinical internships, developing learning experiences, and supporting ongoing learning through questioning and effective feedback.

In-Person - Beyond Bio◦Psycho◦Social: Optimizing Health Across Communities - POSTPONED

Featuring Dan Kang, PT, DPT & Ryan Jacobson, PT, DPT, PCS

April 4, 2020 | 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Postponed. Date to be determined.

Location

George Fox University
Roberts Center - Room 203
501 Villa Road
Newberg, Oregon

Parking is available in the Roberts Center parking lot. A parking pass will be issued to you prior to the event.

Cost

$350 - General Registration
$300 - GFU Physical Therapy Alumni and Clinical Instructors
$99 - GFU Physical Therapy Students

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Please contact Linda Dallof at ldallof@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2451 with any questions.

Event Details

New patient-reported outcome measures empower clinicians to efficiently capture biomedical, psychological, and social variables of health during routine care.  These new measures are person-centered and population-based, enhancing the focus on the individual and community.  This course reviews interpretation and application of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) to routine clinical care.  Specific measures that span a biopsychosocial model of care include Physical Function, Fatigue, Self-efficacy of Symptom Management, and Satisfaction with Social Roles and Activities.  We will cover basic clinical interpretation of each measure, available data from physical therapy clinics, case studies, and interviews with providers and patients where these scales were used to augment care.  Participants can expect to be exposed to concrete ways of using PROMIS measures to target treatments for specific patients, document patient care, and identify new psychosocial areas of practice that may enhance patient outcomes.

• This course will be hands-on using iPad PROMIS, videos, case vignettes, and live case study.
• We will demonstrate the power of PROMIS to enhance your clinical decision making.
• Lunchtime Idea Session with Dan & Ryan - LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED!
• Online modules will also be made available to you to enhance your learning after the course.
• 8 CE contact hours will be issued upon completion of the course.

Objectives:

1. Interpret and apply the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Measures to assess and track health for patients attending physical therapy.
2. Understand and apply strategies to improve patient self-efficacy in physical therapy care and to encourage increased physical activity.
3. Understand and apply strategies to assess and treat high fatigue symptoms that occur in patients attending physical therapy.
4. Understand and apply strategies to identify social participation goals and use these goals to enhance commitment to rehabilitation programs and satisfaction social roles and life activities.