New Provider Course: Exercise Therapy as an Alternative to Opioids for Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain
9/20/2017The course will focus on how to synthesize clinical rehabilitation principles with medical research to yield practical clinical skills. Through evidence-based motivational and clinical time-sensitive techniques, participants will learn to help patients assume greater responsibility for their health and hold physical therapists accountable for evidence-based care when treating patients with chronic pain, especially those who may be addicted.
Pending approval, participants may earn two CME-approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credits per class via Preventive Health Awareness, an Oregon-based 501(c)(3).
Sign Up for the First Class
Date: Saturday, January 27, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. to noon
Location: c.h. Physical Therapy Clinic in Beaverton, OR
Class size is limited to 25 participants. It is $95 to take the course with all proceeds going through a local 501(c)(3), Preventive Health Awareness, and profits donated to local charities. Profits from January's class will be donated to Saint Mary's Home for Boys. The cost of the course includes a textbook on exercise prescription.
1 Kathy Alvarez, MD; Tanya Carter, DO; Greg Gullo, MD; Andy Harbison, MD; Jordi Kellogg, MD; Michelle Mears, MD; Bart Rask, MD; Matt Rose, DO; Robert Sandmeier, MDBack