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Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise

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Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise

Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise

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This course was recorded in March 2021

Overview

Muscle tension is part of many musculoskeletal pain problems including neck pain, pelvic pain, and low back pain. 

Are you incorporating the latest evidence in sensory-motor retraining by using the Fremantle Questionnaires to assess sensory-motor changes? 

Do you know what to do about it when they do have sensory-motor smudging?

Join Carolyn Vandyken for Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope Session 4 - Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise.

Overview of all Sessions in this Course Series:

This course is part of a larger series. You can find all of the courses in this series by going here.

  1. Sleep and Musculoskeletal Pain: The Crucial Link presented by Debbie Patterson 
  2. Osteoporosis: A Silent Risk Factor for Decreased QOL presented by Mikki Townsend 
  3. Hormones Matter: Considerations for Treating Women with MSK Problems presented by Susan Clinton 
  4. Tension is a Top-Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise presented by Carolyn Vandyken 
  5. Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope presented by Dr. Sinead Dufour 
  6. Exercise Prescription Overhaul for MSK pain presented by Cory Blickenstaff and Teresa Waser 
  7. Polyvagal Theory, Stress, and MSK pain presented by Marlysa Sullivan 
The instructors
Carolyn Vandyken
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.

Course Material included in this course
  • Tension is a Top Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise
  • Welcome and Slides
  • The Fremantle Awareness Questionnaire
  • Introduction
  • Questionnaires and Doing Things Differently
  • Qi Gong and Conclusion
  • Questions
  • References
  • Feeling stiffness in the back: A protective perceptual inference in chronic back pain
  • Feedback
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