Integrative Medicine Workshops
Learn how to apply the concepts of various Integrative Medicine modalities by attending the hands-on-training workshops offered during the afternoon session.
Each afternoon workshop will offer participants an opportunity to learn the history, concepts, and application of different integrative modalities that can be incorporated into patient care. The workshop session will be limited to small groups to assure ample personal attention from your instructor, all of whom are experts and accomplished practitioners in their respective modalities. Each hands-on-workshop will provide the opportunity to interact directly within an interprofessional team of students.
The 2019 Integrative Medicine Symposium workshops are a registered and approved IPE Learning Activity. Students participating in the afternoon session will receive a certificate documenting their attendance.
Integrative Interprofessional Pain Management: A Holistic Approach
Kathy Sridaromont
Overview: The workshop will discuss the relevance of shared holistic assessment on interprofessional role competencies and communication about allopathic components, complementary and alternative components, and integrative components. It will introduce several assessment tools for use across the lifespan.
Dry Needling by Physical Therapists in the Medical Model
Gary Kearns
Overview: Dry needling is a skilled intervention that uses a thin filiform needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate underlying myofasical trigger points, muscular, and connective tissues for the management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and movement impairments. This is a technique used to treat dysfunctions in skeletal muscle, fasia, and connective tissue, and diminish persistent peripheral nociceptive input, and reduce or restore impairments of body structure and function leading to improved activity and participation.
This workshop will present a history of dry needling by physical therapists and discuss the mechanisms of pain relief, clinical application (technique and dosage) and appropriate screening to ensure patient safety and include a demonstration of the dry needling technique. Students will work in interprofessional teams to discuss the benefits of dry needling, discuss what patients would benefit from dry needling therapy, and how it can be used to improve patient care.
The Pain Neuroscience Paradigm
Brad Allen
Overview: This workshop will present the learner with an introduction to pain neuroscience including an explanation of pain as a means for the body to describe its safety in the environment instead of a measure of injury.
Project Echo: Delivering Interprofessional Education to Remote Sites
Dr. Kelli Klein, Dr. John Culberson
Overview: This workshop will demonstrate Project Echo as an effective platform for interprofessional education using the concept of "move knowledge, not people". Participants will discuss its use with palliative and geriatric care patients.
Opioid Use Disorder: Medication Strategies for Prevention, Rescue, and Treatment
Dr. Nakia Duncan
Overview: This workshop will explore various approaches to combat the opioid crisis. Participants in interprofessional teams will learn how to administer naloxone products in an individual encountering an opioid overdose.
Mindfulness and Pain: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Tool to Cope with Physiological and Psychological Pain
Dr. David Trotter
Overview: Mindfulness is the act of being aware of what you're sensing and feeling at every moment. Mindfulness-based clinical therapies are increasingly becoming well-known as effective interventions for a range of conditions. The benefits of mindfulness practices that are theorized and/or empirically supported include: improved emotional regulation, reduced rumination, stress reduction, reduced emotional reactivity, and reduced distractibility.
This workshop will give a working definition of mindfulness and a description of its key components. Students will learn the simple steps of what constitutes mindfulness meditation with a demonstration of experiential exercises using guided discussion. Following the exercises, interprofessional teams of students will discuss the health benefits of mindfulness and share ways that mindfulness can be used in patient care.
Integrative Pain Management: Where Can We Go From Here?
Dr. Phillip S. Sizer
Overview: Each professional decade brings new treatment golden arrows for clinicians to embrace and implement when treating patients with persistent pain. Often these tools fall short as means for revolutionary results and are prematurely abandoned in response to misdirected utilization.
This course will integrate orthopaedic manual therapy, sensorimotor control strategies, biopsychosocial skillsets, pain science education and medical intervention to explore multidisciplinary solutions for redirecting patients’ persistent pain experiences. Management alternatives, case studies, demonstrations and practice will be included.