AAOM December 2008 Workshop

Prolotherapy (RIT)

Take this opportunity to meet other doctors who are interested in prolotherapy and how prolotherapy can be integrated into your practice. You will learn from the best and be given the opportunity to participate in the hands on workshops with the oversight of experienced teachers.

Early Registration Price AAOM members:
$1,400 or $1,550 after 11/15/08

Non-members:
$1,550 or $1,650 after 11/15/08

EARLY REGISTRATION SPECIAL - EXPIRES 11/15/08

To register call 1-888-687-1920

STATEMENT OF NEED
The design of this course was based upon previous course evaluations, current issues, scientific medical research and popular topics in pain medicine as suggested by the leadership of the AAOM.

The course will provide didactic and practical instruction on the diagnosis and treatment of ligamentous instability/pain with prolotherapy also known as regenerative injection therapy (RIT). There will be a review of the history of prolotherapy, anatomy, injection techniques and physiology as well as student involved demonstration of techniques using cadaver specimens.

The course was designed for those treating pain and injury, overuse syndromes and chronic pain conditions affecting the lumbar spine, and/or the lower extremities including the hip, knee, foot and ankle. The target audience is PM&R specialists (physiatrists), Family Practitioners, Interventional Pain Physicians, Pain Management Specialists, Sports Medicine Specialists, Orthopedists and Health Professionals dealing with injury, overuse syndromes and chronic pain conditions.

The overall learning objectives that we hope to achieve are:

• At the completion of this course participants will receive a comprehensive review of anatomy, pathology and pathophysiology of chronic non-malignant pain arising from the connective tissue of the lumbar spine.
• Observe and learn various examination techniques, evaluation methods.
• Understand various hormonal disturbances interfering with proper healing and receive sound diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for their correction.
• Receive instruction in rehabilitation strategies for chronic non-malignant pain strategies.
• Performed RIT injections on cadavers with C-arm guidance
• Observe and learn about various injection techniques and manipulative approaches in the Lumbar spine.
• Receive instruction on hands-on manipulative techniques.
• Understand how prolotherapy can be integrated into various treatment protocols to enhance proper healing and affect chronic pain conditions.
• Receive instruction on injection needle placement.
• Receive instruction in hands-on diagnostic techniques.

NEEDS ASSESSMENT

A Needs Assessment was conducted using prior program feedback from an evaluation and committee assessment to determine the types of sessions and information that rated well at previous meetings of both the AAOM and other organizations.

The committee also evaluated New Medical Knowledge made available in new research, periodicals and through other Medical Meetings.

Overall, the need fulfilled in this workshop is to provide participants with an understanding of the interrelationships between chronic pain, structural dysfunction, enthesopathy, and prolotherapy and interventional pain medicine techniques. The workshop will be presented using a combination of lecture and hands-on lab presentations. Participants will gain experience in various techniques to treat chronic pain under the guidance of experienced teachers from several disciplines. The physicians attending this conference care for patients suffering from chronic pain. The need is to further learn, by sharing data and experience of treatments and outcomes and become appraised of new medical advances.

The educational methods that we will use to achieve the overall learning objectives will include morning sessions of six to seven lectures given by physicians experienced in various aspects of musculoskeletal care. In the afternoons, two workshop sessions will be presented to the audience highlighting the various topics and problem areas. In some cases the workshops will be scheduled as successive workshop sessions for more focused discussion and treatment demonstrations.