Course Details

This module presented by Professor Jan Hartvigsen provides clinicians with an insight into the role that chiropractors can play in employing a "hands-off" approach to patient care. It challenges traditional thinking within the chiropractic profession of limiting treatment to manual therapy and incorporates a biopsychosocial approach to patient care that emphasises strategies that can be employed via a face-to-face consultation or the telehealth environment. This approach to patient care aligns with contemporary evidence-based practice. Hence, this module should be a must for all practising chiropractors.

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    Treating Without Using Your Hands - Is That Chiropractic? [ 1 pts/hrs]

    • Treating Without Using Your Hands - Is That Chiropractic?

    • Assessment - Treating Without Using Your Hands - Is That Chiropractic?

    • Treating Without Using Your Hands - Is That Chiropractic? - Notes

Course Learning Outcomes

On completion of the module, you will be able to:

1) Understand the background information on initiating effective techniques used in the management of low back pain that do not use hands.
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2.) Understand the basic evidence underpinning the techniques used in low back pain that do not use hands.

3.) Get acquainted with the inter-professional collaboration that could follow by applying the presented evidence of techniques that do not use hands.

4.) Learn to apply which techniques could be incorporated in a chiropractor’s clinical encounter that do not use hands.





CPD Hours/Points = 1.0

Instructor

Professor

Jan Hartvigsen

Chiropractor (1989). PhD epidemiology (2001). Full Professor and Head of Research, Clinical Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Research (2007) and Center for Muscle and Joint Health, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark (2016). Senior Researcher Chiropractic Knowledge Hub (2002). Knight of the Order of Dannebrog appointed by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (2020). -------- Jan Hartvigsen is an internationally leading researcher and research leader in musculoskeletal health. His focus is on improving care for people with musculoskeletal pain and disability and he takes pride in breaking down barriers between disciplines and bringing together people from diverse backgrounds in productive collaborations. His primary research focus is clinical studies of musculoskeletal pain and disability increasingly with a focus on how to implement evidence-based care in clinical settings and health systems. Professor Hartvigsen has been a member of many national and international committees. He has worked as scientific consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019, and he is currently member of the WHO Guideline Development Group for Primary Chronic Low Back Pain. He was deputy-chair of the landmark Lancet Low Back Pain Series that was published in The Lancet in 2018. He has also been member of Danish National Clinical Guideline committees under the Danish Health Authority for the treatment of cervical radiculopathy, lumbar radiculopathy, shoulder pain, back pain and persistent symptoms after concussion. Professor Hartvigsen is a prolific communicator. He has authored more than 300 international peer-reviewed publications including 62 systematic reviews or invited reviews in international journals, 41 editorials or commentaries. He has published papers in a range of leading international journals including The Lancet and British Medical Journal. He has authored or co-authored 15 book chapters and reports. His h-index is 50/61 (Scopus/Google Scholar, November 2023) and his papers have been cited more than 15,000 times. Jan Hartvigsen has given 212 keynote or invited presentations at multidisciplinary conferences in the fields of chiropractic, physiotherapy, back pain, rehabilitation, and orthopaedics. He has appeared in over 200 interviews including multiple appearances on national and international TV news, national radio news and radio programs, newspapers, podcasts and internet media. Jan Hartvigsen was rated as the world’s number one expert in “Musculoskeletal Pain” (2016) and in “chiropractic” (2019) by Expertscape.com. In 2021 he was pronounced “World Expert” in Back pain because he had been ranked in the top 0.1% 10 years in a row. In 2017 he was awarded the “Researcher of the Year” award by the American Chiropractic Association and the “David Chapmann-Smith Honorary Award” by the World Federation of Chiropractic. In 2018 he was awarded the European Chiropractors’ Union Honorary Award.