Neuro-MusculoSkeletal Club

The Neuro-Musculoskeletal Management (or short: NMS) club is the new headline for IMTA´s special offerings. Under this title we offer continuous education in the format of webinars. It is planned to extend our services and products based on the demand of our current and former students. Stay tuned for more offerings. 

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Mark Jones ¦ CLINICAL REASONING: Fast and Slow Reasoning in Musculoskeletal Practice (60 min) Part 1 of 3 "While everyone thinks, not everyone thinks about their thinking."
This three-part presentation will provide an overview of key clinical reasoning theory.

Part one covers (or watch the intro video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftpqIwQ0TMc)
• “Noise”: Variability in professional judgments that shouldn’t vary
• Purpose of clinical reasoning
• Scope of knowledge and reasoning required in practice
• Analytical processes important to clinical reasoning
• Types of clinical patterns
• Key clinical judgments important to physiotherapy practice (“Hypothesis Categories”):
− Activity and participation capability / restriction
− Problem classification (physiotherapy diagnosis)
− Impairments in body function or structure
− Contributing factors to development and maintenance of the problem(s)

About Mark Jones:
Mark Jones is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia with 35 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy. Mark graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Psychology, then completed his Physical Therapy studies at the University of Iowa. Having developed an interest in manual therapy Mark travelled to Australia to study Manipulative Physiotherapy and after completing his Graduate Diploma in 1985 under Geoff Maitland he completed his Master degree by Research in 1989. The title of his thesis was “Facilitating Students’ Clinical Reasoning in Physiotherapy Education”. Mark has a special interest in biopsychosocial health care and the teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning in physiotherapy. He has conducted and supervised research in the areas of clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal physiotherapy with over 90 publications including three editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions” and two editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning for Musculoskeletal Practice”.

8 May 202420:001.5 hours
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Mark Jones ¦ CLINICAL REASONING: Fast and Slow Reasoning in Musculoskeletal Practice (60 min) Part 2 of 3 "While everyone thinks, not everyone thinks about their thinking."
This three-part presentation will provide an overview of key clinical reasoning theory.

Part two covers (or watch the intro video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftpqIw)
• • Key clinical judgments important to physiotherapy practice (“Hypothesis Categories”):
− Precautions and contraindications to physical examination and treatment
− Management / treatment selection and progression
 Limitations and importance of clinical guidelines
 Procedural reasoning: judging relevance and significance of findings, treatment selection and progression, reassessment
− Prognosis
• How to judge the quality of clinical reasoning
• Elements of all analytical thinking
• Verifiable versus non-verifiable judgments
• Common errors in clinical reasoning
• Factors contributing to clinical reasoning capability
• Common assumptions in practice
• Strategies to minimise errors and improve clinical reasoning

About Mark Jones:
Mark Jones is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia with 35 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy. Mark graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Psychology, then completed his Physical Therapy studies at the University of Iowa. Having developed an interest in manual therapy Mark travelled to Australia to study Manipulative Physiotherapy and after completing his Graduate Diploma in 1985 under Geoff Maitland he completed his Master degree by Research in 1989. The title of his thesis was “Facilitating Students’ Clinical Reasoning in Physiotherapy Education”. Mark has a special interest in biopsychosocial health care and the teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning in physiotherapy. He has conducted and supervised research in the areas of clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal physiotherapy with over 90 publications including three editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions” and two editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning for Musculoskeletal Practice”.
29 May 202420:001.5 hours
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Mark Jones ¦ CLINICAL REASONING: Fast and Slow Reasoning in Musculoskeletal Practice (60 min) Part 3 of 3 "While everyone thinks, not everyone thinks about their thinking."
This three-part presentation will provide an overview of key clinical reasoning theory.

Part three covers (watch intro video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftpqIwQ0TMc)
Psychosocial focussed reasoning: Understanding the person behind the problem
• Risk/vulnerability versus resilience/protective factors
• Stress and coping theory
• Recognising symptom coping strategies
• How people evaluate threat
• Beliefs as a barrier to recovery
• Basis and consequence of beliefs and feelings
• Stress / distress continuum
• Self-efficacy
• Importance of social factors
• What to include in subjective examination psychosocial assessment: cognitive factors, distress, behaviour and coping strategies, social factors
• Psychosocial questionnaires
• How to judge relevance of potential psychosocial factors
• Physiotherapy psychosocial management
• Shared Decision Making – what does it look like in practice?
− Four Habits approach to facilitating shared decision making
• Strategies to reduce “Noise”

About Mark:
Mark Jones is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia with 35 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy. Mark graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Psychology, then completed his Physical Therapy studies at the University of Iowa. Having developed an interest in manual therapy Mark travelled to Australia to study Manipulative Physiotherapy and after completing his Graduate Diploma in 1985 under Geoff Maitland he completed his Master degree by Research in 1989. Mark has a special interest in biopsychosocial health care and the teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning in physiotherapy. He has conducted and supervised research in the areas of clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal physiotherapy with over 90 publications including three editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions” and two editions of the text “Clinical Reasoning for Musculoskeletal Practice”.
4 September 202420:002 hours
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German

Rene Bakodi

February 24th 2022

20:00 CET

Functional Fitness / CrossFit in der Physiotherapie. Ein Therapieansatz an dem kein Weg vorbei führt?

English

Elly Hengeveld

March 30th 2022

20:00 CET

Goal Setting & Shared Decision Making

English

Sebastian Löscher

April 19th 2022

20:00 CET

Is there a need to be specific with hands on techniques?

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