7:30 AM - Registration and Coffee 

 8:00 AM - Introductions and course objectives

 8:15 AM - Review of pain and connectivet issue properties in light of new evidence

 9:15 AM - The Lumbo-sacral Spine: Kinesiology and Physical Rehabilitation

10:15 AM - Break

10:25 AM - Intervertebral disc, itspathology, and pain characteristics

11:15 AM - Serious spinal pathology and differential diagnosis 

12:00 PM Lunch

12:30 PM = History, physical examination, and evaluation of low back pain

 1:30 PM - Evidence based treatment approaches for low backpain 

 2:30 PM - Effect of general versus specialized exercises in low-backpain

 3:00 PM - Outcome and Functional Measures for low back and neck pain

 3:50 PM - Break

 4:00 PM - History, physical examination, and evaluation of neck pain

 4:30 PM - Modalities for neck and low-back pain

 5:00 PM - Summary and Evaluation

 

This course offering complies with the criteria set by 68 Ill.Adm. Code, Section 1340.61(C) (2) andall other criteria in Ill.Adm. Code, Section1340.61 (8 contact hours).