Webinar: Rehabilitation for Persistent Spinal Pain — What Helps, and How?
International guidelines consistently recommend exercise and education as the cornerstones of managing musculoskeletal pain disorders, such as persistent low back pain. Yet there remains debate about the details — what type of education works best, how exercise should be prescribed, and what role (if any) passive treatments should play.
In this webinar, Dr. Kieran O’Sullivan (University of Limerick, Pain-Ed) invites clinicians to critically reflect on the evidence and their own practice. Through case-based discussion and recent research insights, participants will explore:
- What we actually mean by “education,” and how its content and delivery should vary depending on the audience.
- How to define “exercise” and “activity,” including decisions on type, dosage, and supervision.
- What current evidence says about surgery, medication, and manual therapy.
- What really changes when patients with persistent spinal pain improve — and what this reveals about underlying mechanisms of recovery.
This session challenges assumptions, promotes reflective clinical reasoning, and strengthens participants’ ability to design evidence-based, person-centred rehabilitation programmes.
Ideal for: physiotherapists, manual therapists, and healthcare professionals involved in managing persistent spinal or musculoskeletal pain.
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Critically evaluate international guidelines for musculoskeletal pain management and interpret how their shared principles apply to spinal pain rehabilitation.
- Differentiate between types and purposes of patient education, adapting communication strategies to the patient’s context, beliefs, and readiness to change.
- Design and justify exercise and activity programmes based on individual goals, tolerance, and psychosocial context, in line with evidence-based principles.
- Analyse the role and limitations of passive and medical interventions (manual therapy, medication, surgery) within a biopsychosocial framework.
- Integrate and reflect on mechanisms of change — biological, psychological, and behavioural — that underpin improvement in pain and function after rehabilitation.
Course planning
- 20:00 - 20:02: Introduction
- 20:02 - 21:30: Webinar
- 21:30 - 22:00: Q&A
- 22:00 - 22:30: Exam
Events
On demand
- Online
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Kieran O'Sullivan PhD
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4 points (Pro-Q-Kine)2 points (Kwaliteitshuis Fysiotherapie Vakinhoudelijk algemeen)2 points (Kwaliteitshuis Fysiotherapie Manueelfysiotherapie)4 points (Pro-Q-Kine Manuele therapie)
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€39,99