Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour
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Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour
This course includes
The instructors
Overview
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!
Join Carolyn Vandyken and Dr. Sinead Dufour for Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope Session 5 - Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope.
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.
- Sleep and Musculoskeletal Pain: The Crucial Link presented by Debbie Patterson
- Osteoporosis: A Silent Risk Factor for Decreased QOL presented by Mikki Townsend
- Hormones Matter: Considerations for Treating Women with MSK Problems presented by Susan Clinton
- Tension is a Top-Down Problem: Changing our Target(s) with Exercise presented by Carolyn Vandyken
- Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope presented by Dr. Sinead Dufour
- Exercise Prescription Overhaul for MSK pain presented by Cory Blickenstaff and Teresa Waser
- Polyvagal Theory, Stress, and MSK pain presented by Marlysa Sullivan
The instructors
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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.
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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
Material included in this course
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Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope with Dr. Sinead Dufour
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Slides
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Introduction
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Lifestyle Interventions and Physiotherapists
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Health Coaching
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Questions
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Closing Questions
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Feedback