Note: This course starts at 1:00pm on Friday
Email – SMARTERehab@gmail.com
Language – English
Course Description
Motor imagery is used in motor skill based interventions. Motor imagery ability is deficient in a wide range of pain and non pain subgroups. Reduced motor imagery influences motor skill learning ability and pain. It usually manifests as poor coordination.
This course has two main focuses
(1) Motor imagery as it relates to the assessment and rehab of motor control based interventions
(2) Motor imagery as a pain mechanism
The brain needs to know what is happening in the body. It gets this information from sensory feedback and forming complex maps. When this information is deficient the brain will change motor behavior to help get this information. When it is absent, significantly inaccurate or cannot be processed, musculoskeletal symptoms can result. It is now clear that our virtual brain and body imagery are involved in pain states. In some cases they can be a primary cause of the pain state!
Body Imagery Pain is introduced as it represents a non mechanical pain state that is not addressed in the definition of nociplastic pain or central sensitization.
On this course we go through an easy to use clinical assessment of motor imagery and targeted rehabilitations strategies. These include primitive reflex inhibition, postural reflex facilitation, midline rehab and specific sensory motor rehab.
Clinical examples will be shown as to how the rehabilitation is targeted towards facilitating improved pelvic health.
Course Objectives: The participant will be able to:
- Take a subjective history related to motor imagery and Body Imagery Pain
- Identify patients with poor motor imagery
- Use primitive reflex inhibition strategies to improve motor imagery and pelvic health rehab
- Subgroup Body Imagery Pain using a clinical reasoning process
Testimonial
“The courses that I have taken with Sean have completely changed my pelvic floor practice and the way I practice as a physical therapist! Sean’s courses are a must in order to help a variety of clientele and especially those who do not respond to conventional treatments! He has researched and developed new evidence based techniques that are essential for pelvic floor therapists.”
Erica Lafontant, pht, B. Sc, M.Sc.A
Rééducation périnéale et pelvienne