Exercise and pain: exploring a complex relationship

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Exercise can be a powerful tool to help manage many conditions seen in the clinic. However, there is currently a lot of misunderstanding surrounding exercise therapy – When is a specific type of exercise needed versus more general exercise? Is it ok for exercise to be painful? What is the right dosage of exercise? And perhaps most importantly, how do we get our patients on board with exercise? This Masterclass answers all these questions and more, empowering you to use exercise in the most effective way possible to enhance patient outcomes.

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Ben Cormack is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science and exercise. He specialises in a movement and exercise based approach with a strong patient centred focus. Ben is a popular international presenter who has delivered presentations and courses all over the world.

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1.

Lower back pain rehab

Runtime: 22:04

Lower back pain is a huge worldwide problem. This lecture looks at what we do and don’t know around back, its contributory factors and current best practice for treatment. It also explores how we use exercise in the treatment process.

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Movement myths

Runtime: 24:53

This lecture dives into the many of the myths that we have around movement that shape the way we work with people. Using an evidence based framework around popular therapeutic targets we ask are these factors important and what to do with them.

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3.

Exercise dosing

Runtime: 23:50

Exercise dosing is still one of the most unknown areas in rehabilitation. The same dosage can different effects on different people. How do we get better at applying the ”right” dose? And what does that mean anyway?

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Painful exercise

Runtime: 22:37

Painful exercise is an important and hot topic in today’s rehab world. As it is often unavoidable we need to know how to navigate using painful exercise and what to look out for.

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5.

Selling exercise

Runtime: 23:03

The biggest problem in rehab is not which exercise to choose. It’s how to actually get patients to do it. This lecture looks at some of the beliefs that limit adherence and also information that might persuade them to do more.

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Exercise specificity

Runtime: 22:15

When do you need to be specific with the application of exercise and when less so? This lecture explores different case studies, guided by current evidence, to ask and answer this complex question.

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