Please find below a list of RMSANZ ASM 2017 pre-conference workshops:
Workshop 1 - Evidence-Based Evaluation of Treatment Outcomes
Workshop 2 - Hands-on - Ultrasound Workshop: Upper Limb Spasticity and Pain Interventions
Workshop 3 - Practical Applications of Mindfulness
Workshop 4 - SPDP 3: Work-based Learning and Assessments
Workshop 5 - Hands-on - Ultrasound Workshop: Lower Limb Spasticity and Pain Interventions
Workshop 6 - Pain Management
Workshop 7 - AFRM Long Case Assessors Calibration Workshop
1. Evidence-Based Evaluation of Treatment Outcomes
Date: Saturday 16 September 2017
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: Crown Plaza Canberra
Address: 1 Binara St, Canberra ACT 2601
Type: Full day
Cost: RMSANZ Member - $300 | Non-member - $350
Speaker: Professor Nikolai Bogduk
Workshop Outline
“The typical doctor knows more about buying a used car than they do about reading a research paper with insight”. You know about EBM but you would like to know some of the tools?
This workshop follows on from last year’s successful opening Plenary session by Dr DJ Kennedy from Stanford University when he demonstrated how appropriate application of EBM principles can strengthen and weaken the conclusions of a research paper.
This workshop will comprise 2 didactic sessions to produce a routine checklist that can be used to protect you from being full by the literature. The first session will describe the hallmarks of an honest, fully transparent application on pain treatment. It hallmarks will be explained and justified on the grounds of common sense, logic, courtesy, and scepticism.
The second session will address statistics. It will cover the statistics that are clinically meaningful and useful, and which should be reported in any clinical scientific paper. It will cover those statistics that is used in order to cover up deficiencies in studies yet let them make exaggerated claims of success. These statistics are easy to grasp and use daily, and you will wonder how you haven’t used them before!
Participants will then apply the checklist on exercises in which they analyse, in groups, two publications that claim success in the management of common types of pain.
Please bring a calculator with “square root” function.
2. Hands-on Ultrasound Workshop UPPER Limb for Spasticity and Pain Interventions
Date: Sunday 17 September 2017
Time: 9.00am - 12.30pm
Venue: National Convention Centre Canberra
Address: 31 Constitution Ave, Canberra ACT 2601
Type: Half day
Cost: RMSANZ Member - $195 | Non-member - $250
Speaker: Dr Stephen Bird
These workshops are designed each as a stand-alone rapid review of your use of Ultrasound to guide intramuscular injections for spasticity and for common pain and musculoskeletal procedures. Each workshop will provide an opportunity for both the novice to gain an insight as to what Rehabilitation Physicians can do with Ultrasound, and for those with all levels of experience to refresh their knowledge and skills. Stephen Bird is nationally and internationally renowned as an informative and educational Instructor of Instructors in Ultrasound and his workshops are 'not to be missed'.
3. Practical Applications of Mindfulness
Date: Sunday 17 September 2017
Time: 9.00am - 12.30pm
Venue: National Convention Centre Canberra
Address: 31 Constitution Ave, Canberra ACT 2601
Type: Half day
Cost: RMSANZ Member - $195 | Non-member - $250
Speaker: Associate Professor Craig Hassed
The practice of mindfulness:
4. SPDP 3: Work-based Learning and Assessments
Date: Sunday 17 September 2017
Time: 9.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: National Convention Centre Canberra
Address: 31 Constitution Ave, Canberra ACT 2601
Type: Half day
Cost: Complimentary
Speaker: Dr Venugopal Kochiyil
The outcomes of this workshop:
Please click here to view the agenda.
5. Hands-on Ultrasound Workshop LOWER Limb for Spasticity and Pain Interventions
Date: Sunday 17 September 2017
Time: 1.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: National Convention Centre Canberra
Address: 31 Constitution Ave, Canberra ACT 2601
Type: Half day
Cost: RMSANZ Member - $195 | Non-member - $250
Speaker: Dr Stephen Bird
These workshops are designed each as a stand-alone rapid review of your use of Ultrasound to guide intramuscular injections for spasticity and for common pain and musculoskeletal procedures. Each workshop will provide an opportunity for both the novice to gain an insight as to what Rehabilitation Physicians can do with Ultrasound, and for those with all levels of experience to refresh their knowledge and skills. Stephen Bird is nationally and internationally renowned as an informative and educational Instructor of Instructors in Ultrasound and his workshops are 'not to be missed'.
6. Pain Management
Date: Sunday 17 September 2017
Time: 1.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: National Convention Centre Canberra
Address: 31 Constitution Ave, Canberra ACT 2601
Type: Half day
Cost: RMSANZ Member - $195 | Non-member - $250
Speaker: Professor Lorimer Moseley
This workshop will provide an update of contemporary models of spinal cord processing of nociceptive input and how the brain might produce pain and other protective outputs; it will cover the idea of neuroimmune networks - or ‘neurotags’ - and their competition and collaboration, and provide background, rationale and implementation of a clinical framework based on the idea of an internal ‘Protection-meter’, or ‘protectometer’.
7. AFRM Long Case Assessors Calibration Workshop
Date: Sunday 17 September 2017
Time: 1.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: National Convention Centre Canberra
Address: 31 Constitution Ave, Canberra ACT 2601
Type: Half day
Cost: Complimentary
Speaker: Dr Venugopal Kochiyil