Presenters: Professor Duncan Reid and Professor Richard Ellis
Department of Physiotherapy, Auckland University of Technology
Topic: From Neck to Nerve: Practical Approaches to Cervical Spine and Arm
Pain
Content:
This one-day course will cover the differential diagnosis, assessment and
management of patients presenting with mid to lower cervical spine pain and
radiating arm pain. This will predominantly be a practical course. The key manual
assessment tests for referred and radicular pain and radiculopathy will be covered.
This will include appropriate neurological screening tests and neurodynamic tests.
Manual assessment of the neck will be covered to assess the potential sources of
pain and management techniques to reduce arm pain. Current best practice
evidence will be presented incorporating clinical reasoning via case studies.
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
Have a greater understanding of the differential diagnosis of radiating arm
pain
Be able to perform appropriate evidence based musculoskeletal assessments
of the cervical spine and neural tissues of the upper limb to assist the
diagnosis.
Plan and demonstrate the appropriate management/treatment techniques for
these conditions
Demonstrate improved levels of clinical reasoning via case study analysis
