Lumbar treatment with manual therapy
Welcome to the STOPS.physio course on Lumbar treatment with manual therapy.
Based on ground breaking research from the STOPS trial and the latest evidence-based literature. After completing this course practitioners will have sufficient knowledge to treat a typical low back disorder patient in a primary care setting.
Practitioners are primarily interested in providing effective treatment for their patients with LBD. However the 1st step in this process is the identification of primary barriers to recovery. We therefore strongly recommend all practitioners considering completion of this course to firstly complete the Standard and Complex assessment of low back disorders courses. This will enable practitioners to identify patients with uncomplicated lumbar Z joint pain that should be highly responsive to the treatment methods outlined in this course.
On completion of this course the practitioner should have sufficient knowledge to:
- Understand the basic principles of the Maitland method as it applies to lumbar Z joint pain
- Generate and text hypotheses regarding cause of symptoms, source of symptoms, relationship between symptoms and contributing factors
- Adequately select an appropriate treatment technique that results in patient improvement
- Adequately reassess a patient to evaluate the effectiveness of the technique
- Progress the patient through a 10 session treatment program including planning for discharge
- Identify and appropriately triage patients not responding to manual therapy
- Be able to apply manual therapy principles to subgroups other than lumbar Z joint pain
An assumption is made that all practitioners engaged in this course will have at least a Bachelor level understanding of human anatomy, biomechanics, physiology and pathology as well as Bachelor level training in the application of manual therapy skills. This course relies on sound basic science knowledge to allow an application to clinical practice.
This course is divided into modules which are a series of topic specific lectures. Through-out these lectures you will have the opportunity to test your understanding by completing multiple attempt quiz questions.
If at any point you would like to return to your included course list, scroll to the bottom of the module series and follow the links under the "Return to included courses" module.