Course Description
This is a one-day course aimed at BPT and MPT students. The course explores the principles of clinical reasoning and its importance. Through clinical reasoning models you will learn history taking, systematically collect information, generates, and test hypotheses, and determines optimal diagnosis and treatment based on the information obtained.
Course Duration and Mode
The course is offered offline. The duration is 8 hours (conducted in a day)
Course Objectives
- Identify the principles of clinical reasoning
- Explore different models of clinical reasoning
- Apply the reasoning models to generate a clinical hypothesis
- Demonstrate a Hypothetico-deductive reasoning process.
- Design SMART goals for patients
- Design an evidence based patient focused management strategy
- Analyze and utilize the Ladder of Inference in clinical practice.
- Understand the importance of self management strategies
Course Eligibility
UG and PG students
Course Seats
10 Participants
Course Instructor
Ammar Suhail, BPT, MPT (Orthopedics)
Course Description
This interactive course is aimed at introducing the evidence-based practice to the clinical physiotherapist. The course will explore evidence-based model, pillars of EBP, steps used in evidence-based practice. The course will also cover anatomy of a research paper, how to search for published literature and critical appraisal of the published literature.
Course Duration and Mode
The course is offered online/offline and is of 15 hours
Course Objectives
- Learn the concepts and importance of evidence based practice
- Analyze the various levels of evidence and their importance
- Translate research into physiotherapy practice
Course Eligibility
Physiotherapist working in different clinical setups/ PG students
Course Seats
20 Participants
Course Instructor
Ammar Suhail, BPT, MPT (Orthopedics)
Course Description
This interactive course is aimed at introducing the concepts of mechanical thinking, testing and treatment, incorporating patient empowerment and shared decision-making strategies. The course will aid you in receiving history, examination, and treatment in a person focused way. It will give you tools to establish a good therapeutic alliance and person focused treatment approach.
Course Duration and Mode
The course is offered online and is of 8 hours duration.
Course Objectives
- Identify the common sources and mechanisms of nociception (pain) and symptom production.
- Apply the Active /Inactive cycle to identify appropriate mechanical treatment strategies.
- Identify key characteristics and content of a “Patient Centered” history and examination.
- Demonstrate a Hypothetico-deductive reasoning process.
- Utilize the Intent / Relevance cycle.
- Analyze and utilize the Ladder of Inference in clinical practice.
- Understand the importance of patient generated self-baselines.
- Utilize Patient centered functional goal setting.
- Demonstrate the key principles of Patient empowerment.
- Understand the key components of “Shared decision making.”
- Demonstrate the differences between empowering and disempowering educational strategies.
- Utilize positive educational strategies.
Course Eligibility
Practicing Physiotherapists and PG students
Course Seats
25 Participants
Course Instructor
DAVID C. POULTER BSc., MCSP, Dip MDT
Course Description
This course is offered in 4 modules. Course will introduce the subclassifications of neck pain and its treatment strategy. Each module will cover detailed assessment of specific disorders that cause neck pain and their specific evidence-based management.
Course Duration and Mode
The duration of the course is 4 days. (Each module is of 1 day each and each module is conducted separately)
Course Objectives
- Identify the common sources and mechanisms of nociception for cervical spine
- Apply the clincial reasoning models for subclassification of neck pain patients
- Conduct a thorugh assessment of patient with neck pain
- Design a management strategy for a patient with neck pain
- Critique the different manual therapy schools of thought used in neck pain
Course Eligibility
UG, PG students and Practicing Physiotherapists
Course Seats
20 Participants
Course Instructor
Ammar Suhail, BPT, MPT (Orthopedics)
Sarah Quais, BPT, MPT (Orthopedics)