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This webinar was recorded on 25 March 2021.

This webinar directly challenges the concept of non-specific low back pain as a legitimate concept from 30 years ago, but now is just a dogma that should be set aside.

The webinar starts with a 1 hour Powerpoint presentation and is followed by a 30 minute question and answer session. The Powerpoint presentation starts with a list of questions about sources of back pain, what may cause it and whether the concept of non-specificity is useful or not.

Host: Dr Mark Laslett

In this webinar Mark will cover:

  • Difference between referred somatic and radicular pain
  • 5 sources, 5 causes & 3 modifiers of back pain
  • Natural history of disc herniation & the role of physiotherapy/epidural injection and surgery
  • Mechanical versus non-mechanical discogenic pain
  • SIJ and pelvic girdle pain
  • The posterior column – facet joint & spondylolysis
  • Causes of claudication (stenosis, PVD & hip joint pain)
  • The value of clinical guidelines


By the end of this webinar you will:

  • Understand the value of clinical guidelines
  • Know the range of conditions that may present as back pain or pain referred from the lumbar spine
  • Be able to criticize the concept of non-specificity as a clinical categorization

 
CPD certificates provided.

Study time: 1 hour

Instructor

Instructor Dr Mark Laslett

PhD, NZRPS, FNZCP, Dip.MT, Dip.MOT

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

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