Physio Academy

Access: 12 months
Cost: $300 NZD | Payment plan available at checkout
Study Time: 31hrs (approx.)

CPD Certificates provided.

The Back Pain 300 series of courses is a programme of study designed for physiotherapists, medical practitioners and other health care providers who have experience with managing people with persistent low back pain and referred lower limb pain.  

The Back Pain 300 Starter Pack includes Back Pain 300, and 301 courses that provide an overview of sources of causes of low back pain and introduces the concept of discogenic pain.

Back Pain 300: Introduction to Advanced Diagnosis and Management covers:

• an overview of sources and causes of LBP and referred lower limb pain
• clinically relevant anatomy, pathology and biomechanics of the anterior column structures
• normal age-related changes of the intervertebral disc
• the concept of discogenic pain
• pain centralisation 

Back Pain 301: Mechanical Discogenic Pain covers:

• theoretical and pathoanatomical foundation for the concept of mechanical discogenic pain
• the concept of the dynamic disc model and how this relates to clinical presentations including acute deformities such as the lateral shift.
• centralisation and directional preference
• the process of performing a simple, structured repeated movements assessment (adapted from the McKenzie (MDT) approach) to identify those likely to respond to a mechanical treatment approach
• how to manage people with mechanical discogenic pain through an episode of care and course of treatment.