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.
Access: 12 months
Cost: $95.00 NZD | Back Pain 300: Introduction to Advanced Diagnosis and Management
Study Time: 11 hrs (approx.)
CPD Certificate provided.
Back Pain 300: Introduction to Advanced Diagnosis and Management.
This is the first lesson in the 300-series. This course is a pre-requisite for other lessons in the 300 series.
Back Pain 300 introduces you to an advanced level of clinical diagnostics and treatments for the various sources and causes of back and referred lower limb pain. In the course Mark challenges the notion of ‘non-specific’ low back pain and shows you how to identify specific subgroups of the back pain population using a simple and structured clinical assessment supported by advanced diagnostic techniques.
What is covered in this course?
This short course shows you how to achieve a clinical diagnosis using the history and physical examination, and highly selective use of technology.
You will also gain the scientific background needed to understand how the anatomy, pathology and biomechanics of the anterior column influence sources of pain posterior to the intervertebral disc. We look specifically at the pathology and anatomy of the intervertebral disc, and investigate the concept and validation of discogenic pain before proceeding onto exploration of other parts all the lumbar spine and pelvis in other Back Pain 300 courses.
The course consists of two chapters that cover pathoanatomy and biomechanics, and introduces the concept of discogenic pain and its diagnosis and management. The course covers:
About the "Back Pain 300 Series"
Welcome to the Introductory Lesson: Back Pain 300
About Mark Laslett
Where did you hear about this course?
Manual for BP300 Introduction
References for patho-anatomy and biomechanics of the anterior column
Anterior Column Patho-Anatomy & Biomechanics Part 1
Anterior Column Patho-Anatomy & Biomechanics Part 2
Sagittal plane lumbar spine biomechanics in vitro
Quiz: Anterior Column Patho-Anatomy & Biomechanics
References for Discogenic Pain and the Petersen T et al 2017 paper
Read Petersen Laslett Juhl 2017 Paper
Chapter 2 Quiz on Petersen T et al 2017 paper
Sources & Causes of Low Back & Referred Lower Limb Pain
Is Low Back Pain Really Non-specific A challenge to an old dogma
Discogenic Pain
Chapter 2 Quiz on Discogenic Pain
Reference Standard for Discogenic Pain
Diagnosis by Subtraction in back pain illustrated with a child's game
Record of Reading
Course Evaluation
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$160
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$95
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Access: 12 months | Full review of current scientific evidence for reliability, validity of the clinical assessment for lumbar facetogenic pain with video case studies & evidence for non-surgical treatment interventions. (Payment plan available)
$150
Access for: 12 months | Dr Mark Laslett presents 3 video case studies of persistent low back pain with over 12 months follow up. Three different sources of nociception identified by clinical exam, then verified. Case reports & notes included.
$80
FREE | Access 12: Months | Is this the end for ‘non-specific low back pain’? Find out why it should be considered a ‘failed experiment’. Find out how we can do better for many patients with a specific diagnosis of LBP.
Free
Cost: $20 NZD | Access 12 months | This webinar has ended, register now to be advised when the recording is available.
$20
Cost: $10 NZD | Access 12 months | Learn about diagnosis - new imaging techniques, the decision-making process regarding surgical vs non-surgical management and rehabilitation and return-to-sport guidelines for athletes with lumbar stress injuries.
$20
We will address the DONTs, focusing mostly on “Trivializing the Catastrophic” which guidelines tend to encourage. Brief presentations of recent cases seen are used to illustrate failures of routine guideline management. 90 min presentation. Q & A.
$20
Recorded Webinar | Sacroiliac Joint Pain | Access: 12 months | Dr Mark Laslett covers the clinical diagnosis of SIJ pain, discusses SIJ 'dysfunction' and presents case studies and latest evidence for SIJ pain.
$20
FREE | Access: 12 months | In this webinar with Mark Laslett , find out more about the theory and evidence of the dynamic disc model and make your own mind up about the role of loaded lumbar flexion in rehabilitation.
Free
Free | Dr Mark Laslett with Brian Sørensen on 50 years of learning and discovery with all things musculoskeletal.
Free
FREE Podcast | Access: 12 months | Listen to Dr Mark Laslett talk about Radicular Syndrome with Tom Jesson. 48 Minutes. Contains language.
Free
FREE | Access: 12 months | Discussion with Dr Mark Laslett & Adam Meakins.
Free
Physiotherapy Specialist Musculoskeletal
Mark has over 50 years of clinical experience in musculoskeletal practice. He completed his PhD in “Diagnostic accuracy of the clinical examination compared to available reference standards in chronic low back pain patients” at the University of Linköping, Sweden in 2001 and in 2014 he became the first Specialist Physiotherapist registered in New Zealand.
His academic and research interest is in the theory and practice of diagnostics, has over 40 publications, contributed chapters to two multi-author books and published his own text Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy: The Upper Limb in 1996.
He became a Fellow of the New Zealand College of Physiotherapy in 2007, was made an honorary Life Member of Physiotherapy New Zealand in September 2014, and of the New Zealand Manipulative Physiotherapists Association in 2015.
He continues to practice as a consultant clinician in Christchurch, NZ and remains active in clinical research.
More info about Mark Laslett: https://www.marklaslett.nz/
Mark’s publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Laslett
