MedSport provides continuing education courses in sports medicine for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapist assistants, athletic trainers, students/residents and other allied health professionals.
MedSport does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, military status, sexual orientation or age. MedSport is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in all aspects of its continuing education activities. Participants who have special needs are encouraged to contact program organizers so that all reasonable efforts to accommodate these needs can be made.
Friday, April 11, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 12, 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Presented by: Ben Cormack, PT
Required Equipment/Material: Laptop (Optional)/Lab clothing
Target Audience: For Allied Health Professionals (PT/PTA, OT/COTA, AT)
Registration Fee: Allied Health Professionals: $550, Students/Residents: $275
11.75 CEU approved through the BOC and APTA-MI
Michigan Medicine is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity approval ID# 12033. This live activity is offered at 1.175 CEUs for Advanced Foundational Knowledge and OT Service Delivery. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.
Modern clinical practice requires clinicians to bring together many diverse elements from a wide range of areas. This can often be confusing, overwhelming, and leaving many feeling unprepared by previous education.
This course looks to bring together these elements in a cohesive and evidence-based framework that gives clinical reasoning skills to reduce the confusion and burden that is often present. This allows both new grad and experienced clinicians to be more confident, relaxed, and ultimately more prepared for this challenge.
We move away from the biomedical model, that has failed many patients, to a more comprehensive Biopsychosocial approach. This is not about a bunch of exercises that you could have just watched on YouTube, its understanding research better, improving communication, up skilling clinical reasoning and trimming away the unnecessary fluff. It goes way beyond just sets, reps & technique that often don’t apply well to treating people with pain anyway.
This course has been taught on 5 continents, 30+ countries and 100s of clinicians & coaches with a whole bunch of discussions, laughs, and movement experiences.
What you will get
- A brand-new streamlined pain science approach. Lose the complex neuroscience explanations
- Psychologically informed communication & interviewing strategies to help people ‘make sense’ of painful problems
- BPS exercise ‘prescription’ model that moves beyond just the tissue
- An ability to confidently navigate uncertainty in diagnosis and treatment
- Appreciate movement variability and dynamic systems theory to forget “good/bad” movement/exercise models
- Gain comprehensive back pain knowledge that will help you understand, explain, assess & treat back pain from a truly evidence-based position
- Learn an exercise dosing model that redefines pain & exercise
- Simple ready to use strategies for common back pain problems
- Design your exercises and movement prescription
- Explain the difference between specific vs. non-specific back pain
- Compose captivating “movement experiences”
- Differentiate movement and exercise for pain from exercise for fitness
- Explain to patients by educating them on MSK problems
Day 1
9am - Intro and key course concepts & intro to understanding EBP
10am – Pain science & the BPS model in 2024
10:45am – Break
11am – The clinical conversation. Improving communication & subjective Ax
11:30am – Pain & exercise. How does it help/ not help?
12:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm – What do you want exercise/movement to do? Clinical reasoning tools for clinic
2:15pm – Practical movement class – Creating a movement experience
3pm – Break
3:15pm – Exercise dosing – the secret to success
4pm – Movement snacks
5pm – Finish
DAY 2
Will have shorter breaks and lunch to allow you to get home earlier!
9am – Understanding lower back pain
10:30am – Serious (red flags), specific & non-specific back pain. What’s the difference?
11am – Break
11:15am – Back pain assessment workshop (Subj and obj)
12:30am – Lunch
1pm – Treatment (Advice & education and exe3rcise workshop)
2pm – Exercise for back pain
3pm – Close
Friday, June 20, 2025, 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Presented by: Owen’s Recovery Science
Target Audience: For Allied Health Professionals (PT/PTA, OT/COTA, AT)
Required Equipment/Material: Laptop (Optional)/Lab clothing
Registration Fee: Allied Health Professionals: $650
Approved for 8.5 CEU’s through the BOC and APTA-MI
This program has been planned and implemented with the requirements and policies of the Board of Certification for Athletic Trainer (BOC) through the joint sponsorship of Owens Recovery Science. Owens Recovery Science is approved by the BOC and APTA-MI to provide continuing education for Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants.
Closed Courses
Shoulder pathology is prevalent in both athletic and non-athletic individuals. Shoulder pain is among the most common form of musculoskeletal pain. The point prevalence of shoulder pain varies from 7 to 26% in the general population, increasing with age. Without proper care, individuals with shoulder pain have shown to be subject to persistent pain over time.
There has been a recent focus on proper classification of shoulder pathologies in attempts of focusing treatment. The complexity of proper classification requires understanding of various shoulder pathologies, examination procedures, imaging examination, etc. Additionally, it requires proper understanding and relevance of diagnostic accuracy.
Treatments have been variably described across the current literature. More recently, there have been newly published practice guidelines, consensus papers and sytematic review/meta-analyses on various shoulder pathologies relative to examination and treatment.
In this course you will learn a detailed, systematic, evidence-based examination process to differentially diagnose shoulder pathology. You will learn evidence-based methods of screening other potential regions of pain generation (e.g. cervical spine), as well as screening for serious pathology. You will also learn various assessment methods to differentially diagnose intra- from extra-articular pathology; as well as specific pathology differentiation.
In this course you will also learn about the most common shoulder arthroscopy surgical procedures and general post-operative considerations. The rehabilitation aspects of this course detail progression principles, monitoring of patient response to an intervention (biologically, psychologically and socially). Additionally, this course covers multiple primary exercises and progressions/regressions for the pathologies discussed in the examination.
This course utilizes a great deal of demonstration of the various assessments and movements, including activity and sport-related movements. The clinical utility of these assessments and exercises is also presented in a manner that is easily understood and usable the next day in the clinic. 1) Identify the primary components of the proposed examination approach. 2) Identify the components of subjective symptom structure of SINS (Maitland). 3) Identify the primary reported subjective complaints for various shoulder pathologies. 4) Identify ideal characteristics of a screening test to help rule out serious pathology, Identify the best tests for ruling out shoulder fracture, bony instability.
DAY 1
8:00-8:10: Introduction to Course
8:10-8:45: Subjective Examination
8:45-9:15: Red Flag Examination
9:15-10:00: Rule Out Cervical & Thoracic Spine
10:00-10:15: Break
10:15-12:00: Examination
- Subjective reports
- Patient Reported Outcome Measures
- Screening & Triage
- Special Testing (Pathology relevance)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-3:30: Clinical Assessment
- Motion Assessment
- Muscle Performance & Functional Performance Assessment
3:30-3:45: Break
3:45-5:45: Assessment of Contextual Factors
- Case Introduction and lab assessments
- Day 1 Review
DAY 2
8:00-8:30: Review of Cases
8:30-9:30: Surgical Procedures
9:30-10:00: Rehabilitation Principles
10:00-10:15: Break
10:15-12:00: Rehabilitation
- Non-Surgical Rehab
- Guiding Principles of Rehab
- Exercise Considerations of Various Exercises Based on Exam Findings
