Date: September 10, 2010
Location: Saskatoon
Credits: 8.25 (Out)

September 10 and 11, 2010

The content of this conference has been developed for primary care providers to accompany the implementation of the Saskatchewan Spine Pathway.  Participants of this conference will have a solid understanding of how the implement the new spine pathway processes into their own practices while reducing their referral rates, and improving their patient outcomes.

Register online at www.saskspineassessment.com

Limited to 100 attendees - early bird September 1 $150.00

Royal University Hospital, Sasktel Theatre
103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon

Date: September 18, 2010
Location: Regina, SK
Credits: 8 (In)

September 18 & 19, 2010  Ramada Hotel & Convention Centre

Saturday, September 18, 2010  1 pm - 5 pm
Sunday, September 19, 2010 8 am - 12 pm

Spinal Rehabilitation and Active Care is an 8 hour course of instruction that emphasizes exercise physiology principles and the basic design and implementation of rehabilitation and active care programs into everyday chiropractic practice. Managed care has significantly decreased the number of visits patients can get reimbursement of chiropractic care for. Thus, greater efficiency in patient management plans are needed in order to bring patients back to good function. There is an expanding literature base showing that chiropractic care that incorporates rehabilitation and active care is more clinically effective and efficient as well as effective measures to prevent recurrence of certain clinical complaints. This course will stress low technology rehabilitation and active care programs that can be initiated in practice for eventual patient home care. Specific protocols for spinal stabilization (cervical to lumbopelvic) will be covered.

Course Objectives
1. Describe the physiological basis for muscle strength and how different types of exercise affect muscle function
2. Perform a evaluation of muscle function
3. Design a clinically sound rehabilitation and active care treatment program

Course Outline
1. Importance of muscle function in skeletal health
 Spinal stability (global and local stabilizers)
 Effectiveness of multimodal care
 Treatment continuum passive to active care

2. The physiological effects of different types of exercise on muscle function
 Strength
 Power
 Endurance

3. Specific exercises
 Movement therapy - proprioception or sensory-motor stimulation
 Stabilization exercises

4. Protocols for
 Cervical spine
 Lumbopelvic spine

5. The use of low tech equipment in stabilization exercise protocols
 Swiss Ball
 Wobble boards etc.

Pre-register with the CAS.  Registration form available online under the Continuing Education tab - Registration Forms.

Course Fee is $280.00
Approved for 8 inside hours

Date: September 24, 2010
Location: Saskatoon, SK
Credits: 23 (Out)

Date: October 16, 2010
Location: Saskatoon
Credits: 6 (In)

Other dates and locations: 
October 17, 2010  Regina
September 12, 2010  Medicine Hat
November 7, 2010 Edmonton
November 13, 2010 Calgary

This program provides chiropractors with a research update regarding recent discoveries in the cause and management of chronic pain and inflammation, from fields of neurology, electrotherapeutics and biochemistry.  It also serves to update their knowledge of widely accepted biochemical indices of general health status and biomarkers related to the severity of inflammatory and hyperproliferative processes. 

Date: October 30, 2010
Location: Saskatoon
Credits: 5 (Out)

Date: November 12, 2010
Location: Toronto
Credits: 5 (In)

Maximum of 7.5 inside hours available for CAS members: 5 on Friday and 2.5 on Saturday.  CAS members are responsible for submitting their individual tracks for CE credits.

Sheraton Centre Toronto

Register online at www.chiroconvention.com

Date: November 13, 2010
Location: Toronto
Credits: 2.5 (In)

Maximum of 7.5 inside hours available for CAS members: 5 on Friday and 2.5 on Saturday. CAS members are responsible for submitting their individual tracks for CE credits.

Sheraton Centre Toronto

Register online at www.chiroconvention.com

Date: TBA
Location: Online
Credits: 12 (Out)

This CD-ROM based program reviews the significance of loads on the lumbar spine to injury; loads on the lumbar spine while sitting, walking and exercising; anatomy including innervation and blood supply; functional aspects of the diaphrahm, pelvic and abdominal musculatures, psoas major and lumbar stability, bones of the vertebral column, sternum and os coxae.

Date: TBA
Location: Online
Credits: 6 (Out)

A detailed 6 hour review of recent fibromyalgia reserach, Epidemiology, pathophysiology, prognosis, the use of outcome measures, and evidence based treatment of the condition are explored along with osme ofthe controversies surrounding fibromyalgia and its proposed etiologies. Differential diagnoses and the criteria for diagnosing the condition are also discussed and a case study of a patient treated with chiropractic care is presented.

Date: TBA
Location: Online
Credits: 3 (Out)

This case study report reviews the clinical presentation, diagnostic imaging, pathogenesis, and treatment options of an interesting cause of knee pain.