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Interactive clinical reasoning session. Join our experienced physiotherapists who guide you through a real-life case study to help you identify those critical red flag presentations of potentially serious pathology.
Instructors: Ciaran Regan and Ben Ardagh
Welcome
About the Presenters
Handout
Introduction
Learning Resources
The Subjective Examination
The Objective Examination
Level of Concern and Action Plan
Red Flags - Online Course
Screening for Serious Pathologies
Before you go...
By the end of this course your will be able to:
Identify features from the subjective examination that may be red flag indicators of potentially serious pathology.
Identify features from the objective examination that may be red flag indicators of potentially serious pathology
Understand the level of urgency required and appropriate referral pathways.
CPD certificate provided
Handouts
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Ben Ardagh and Anne Wilson will show you how to maximise patient engagement in rehabilitation by setting person-centered goals, managing expectations and getting them on board with their rehabilitation.
Learn about different clinical reasoning strategies, common clinical reasoning errors and how your subjective questions link to your clinical decision making. Test your clinical reasoning skills with a knee case study.
Are you meeting professional and legal standards? Learn who can give consent, when is consent needed, what information must be provided for ‘informed’ consent and how to document informed consent to medicolegal standards.
Learn about the unique professional challenges in sports physiotherapy, the role of the physiotherapist in sport, sexual boundaries and how to safeguard against breaches of boundaries in the sports setting.
Find out when onward referral is needed and learn a simple method of summarising patient information to produce a professional and concise medical referral letter.
Ben is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist working in private practice and high performance sport. Ben has experience in rehabilitation, complex injuries and optimising performance in both private practice and elite athletes. He is passionate about ongoing learning and helping new graduates to better understand how they can approach and optimise their practice.
