Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour
Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour
45 minutes
The instructors
Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope Episode 5
Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour
This series is designed for private practice and hospital-based orthopaedic therapists, including physiotherapists, kinesiologists, chiropractors, and sports medicine physicians. The scope of practice for musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions is rapidly changing. Years lived with disability for people with chronic MSK conditions has increased by 60% since the turn of the millennium.
MSK conditions are more complex than ever before. Nutrition, lifestyle factors, sensorimotor smudging, pelvic health, psychosocial factors, and stress all play a role in the health and wellbeing of persons with MSK problems.
Are you ready to accelerate your clinical growth by broadening your scope of practice?
Episode 5: Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour
Objectives of the Session:
Data supports that physiotherapists need to play an important role in modifying lifestyle factors (illness beliefs, stress, sleep, physical activity and diet) for patients with persistent pain. Have you developed these skills yet? What are you waiting for!
General Information about this Webinar Series
Don’ts: You don’t have to become a psychologist to have a psychologically-informed practice and you don’t have to become a pelvic health physiotherapist to address pelvic health issues.
Do’s: You do have to raise your awareness of the complexity of factors that contribute to persistent pain. This webinar series will accomplish just that. It is designed to introduce you to a variety of topics for consideration in MSK problems. Should a menopausal woman with shoulder pain get the same treatment approach as a 20-year old student? Do you routinely screen the pelvic floor in low back pain? What does spirituality have to do with MSK problems? Lifestyle factors, such as nutrition, sleep, and exercise are rarely discussed with someone with neck pain; yet, all of these factors are highly relevant.
Join Carolyn Vandyken as she has an open forum discussion with clinical leaders in these areas of whole-person health.
Overview of all Sessions:
- Sleep and Musculoskeletal Pain: The Crucial Link with Debbie Patterson (February 12)
- Osteoporosis: A Silent Risk Factor for Decreased Quality of Life (QOL) with Mikki Townsend (February 19)
- Hormones Matter: Considerations for Treating Women with MSK Problems with Susan Clinton (February 26)
- Tension is a Top-Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise with Carolyn Vandyken (March 5)
- Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour (March 12)
- Exercise Prescription Overhaul for MSK Pain with Cory Blickenstaff and Teresa Waser (March 19)
- Polyvagal Theory, Stress and MSK Pain with Marlysa Sullivan (March 26)
Upon completion of this webinar series, participants will:
- Have a deeper appreciation of the complexity of MSK problems
- Understand the data that suggests that our current approach to MSK rehab needs an overhaul
- Develop a thirst for more knowledge and skills that will broaden their scope and skill-base to help MSK patients make sustainable change(s)
- Accelerate the growth of their practice by diversifying their skillset in a biopsychosocial realm
- Treat MSK problems more effectively by taking the whole person into consideration
We will be streaming the webinar to our Facebook page so you can watch it live here if you don't get a seat in the webinar room.
The webinar will be recorded and will be added to our free library of courses for Embodia Members!
The instructors
PT, PhD
Dr. Sinéad Dufour is an academic clinician who shares her time between clinical pursuits as the Director of Pelvic Health at the WOMB and academic pursuits in the Faculty of Health Science at McMaster University. She has been a practicing physiotherapist for 20 years. She completed her MScPT at McMaster University (2003), her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Science at Western (2011), and returned to McMaster to complete a post-doctoral fellowship (2014). Her current research interests include conservative approaches to optimize pelvic floor function, pregnancy-related pelvic-girdle pain, and interprofessional collaborative practice models of service provision to enhance pelvic health and perinatal fitness for elite athletes.
Sinéad is an active member of several organizations charged with optimizing perinatal care and pelvic health and has led and contributed many national and international clinical practice guidelines to improve care provision. Sinéad also currently serves as a council member for the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario, Canada. Sinéad is a well-recognized speaker at conferences around the world and a sought-after expert to consult with companies whose aim is to improve perinatal care and pelvic health.
Relevant Links:
IG: @dr.sinead
BHSc (PT)
Carolyn is the co-owner of Reframe Rehab, a teaching company engaged in breaking down the barriers internationally between pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science. Carolyn has practiced in orthopaedics and pelvic health for the past 37 years. She is a McKenzie Credentialled physiotherapist (1999), certified in acupuncture (2002), and obtained a certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in 2017.
Carolyn received the YWCA Women of Distinction award (2004) and the distinguished Education Award from the OPA (2015). Carolyn was recently awarded the Medal of Distinction from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association in 2021 for her work in pelvic health and pain science.
Carolyn has been heavily involved in post-graduate pelvic health education, research in lumbopelvic pain, speaking at numerous international conferences and writing books and chapters for the past twenty years in pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science.