Units of the PSP Certification Program™

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Unit 1 – Fundamentals of Primary Spine Care

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Unit 2 – The Lumbar Spine

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Unit 3 – The Cervical Spine

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Unit 4 – Clinical Management and Final Proficiency Exam

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Course Participants:

Participants who are accepted into and registered for the PSP Program can access the course using the link below.

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Unit 5 – Clinical Management

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Unit 5 – Online Educational Modules:

Topic 1: Clinical management

• Moving beyond diagnosis and treatment to clinical decision making and clinical management: the true PSP
• Team Based Care
  

 

Topic 2: Pharmacology

• Part 1: Medications that are prescribed for spine pain
  • Anti-inflammatory medications: NSAIDs, steroids
  • Pain medications: acetaminophen, opioids
  • Muscle relaxants
  • Anti-convulsants
  • mood stabilizers
• Part 2: Medications that can produce musculoskeletal side effects
• Part 3: Identifying aberrant drug behavior
  

 

Topic 3: Principles of Evidence-Based Practice

• Overview of EBP – what is it?
• Overview of research designs
• Basic science research
• Observational studies
• Diagnostic studies
• Qualitative research
• Randomized, controlled trials, meta-analyses and systematic reviews
• Asking clinical questions and seeking the answer
  

 

Topic 4: Work Related Topics

• Stay at Work/ Return to Work process
• Functional capacity evaluations
• Work Conditioning/Work Hardening
• Chronic Pain Management Programs/Functional Restoration
  

 

Topic 5: Cervical Manipulation and Stroke – an Understanding for the PSP

• Review
  • Pathophysiology of vertebral artery dissection
  • Epidemiology of vertebral artery dissection
  • Most common initial symptoms
• The evolution of the association between CMT and vertebral artery dissection
  • Case reports and case series
  • Surveys
  • Biomechanical studies
  • Case-control studies
• Where are we now?
  • How to communicate vertebral artery dissection as a “risk”
  • How to detect subtle signs and symptoms (if they are present)
  • What to do if a patient has a stroke in your office
    

 

Topic 6: Special topics

• Primary spine care in the context of public health Part 1
• Primary spine care in the context of public health Part 2
• Pre/Post Surgical Procedures
• Scoliosis
  

 

Topic 7: Written documentation and communication

• Documentation: Part 1
• Documentation: Part 2

 

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Unit 5 – Live 2-Day Workshop:

The following topics will be covered in the live workshop.

 

Review of the principles of primary spine care and CRISP® Protocols

 

Clinical decision making

• regarding treatment recommendations and what to do each visit
• regarding end point of care
• what if the patient does not respond to an adequate trial of treatment?
• regarding invasive or intensive interventions

 

Relationship-Centered Care and the Therapeutic Alliance revisited

• Affective reassurance
• Cognitive Reassurance
• Use of language

 

Thoracic Pain

 

Multiple Actual Cases of various clinical scenarios in Primary Spine Care - Interactive discussions

 

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(please note that the content will be updated as needed)

 

Updated | 01.31.2019