COURSE OVERVIEW

AMP's Knowledge Project: Evidence, Insight and Management of Lumbo-Pelvic & Hip Disorders

This in-person course will focus on improving clinician ability to treat patients presenting with lumbopelvic and hip disorders. Learn select high yield manual therapy skills that are supported by evidence and that you will use on a regular basis.
Format

In-Person 

Date

April 5 - 6, 2025

Instructors

Steve Young, BSCPT, BA
Curtis Tait, BSC, MPT, IMS

Time

2 pm - 9 pm (Sat)
8 am - 5 pm (Sun)

Location
Tall Tree Physiotherapy & Health Centre 
956 Commercial Dr,
Vancouver, BC V5L 3W7
Price (inc. tax)

$840

Course Description
Course Objectives
Meet the Facilitators
Cancellation Policy
Target Audience
Assessment & Certification

Course Description

The goal of this course is for you to successfully learn and transfer evidence into your clinical practice. This sounds easy, but it takes intention and strategy to do it successfully. Most weekend courses do not achieve a material change in practice. The short time frame and the lack of opportunity to practice new skills and knowledge in a clinical setting do not facilitate consolidation. That’s why we’ve revisioned a weekend course to take place over the course of a month with structured reflection, regular prompting, high frequency touch points, and a chance to, again and again, engage with the material and transfer it to your clinical practice while being supported by course facilitators.


We guarantee that this course will enhance your practice.


This 4 week blended online and in-person course will focus on improving clinician ability to treat patients presenting with lumbopelvic and hip disorders. Learn select high yield manual therapy skills that are supported by evidence and that you will use on a regular basis. More importantly, develop skills that will allow you to stage and classify patients to specific interventions and progress them through an exercise-based rehabilitation program that builds self-efficacy and resiliency. This course will also develop your communication and pedagogical strategies. You will gain insight and skills to effectively apply principles from pain sciences; which will maximize both patient outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Course Objectives

  • Rule out serious conditions in the lumbar spine and pelvic region.

  • Classify low back pain patients to specific treatment groups and effectively stage patient recovery.

  • Apply selected thrust and non thrust manual therapy interventions proficiently.

  • Understand how to effectively prescribe and progress an exercise program for a patient presenting with lumbo, pelvic, or hip pain.
     
  • Demonstrate communication and pedagogical skills that will enable them to leverage pain science in a clinical setting.

  • Have adopted more than 3 habits to support reflective practice and continuous growth. 

Meet the Facilitator

Meet Steve Young, BSCPT, BA

Steve received an undergraduate degree from the University of Victoria before attending the McMaster University physiotherapy program in Hamilton, Ontario. He graduated summa cum laude in 1999 before returning to Victoria to work in private practice. He has extensive post graduate education, organizing and attending dozens of orthopaedic and pain science courses. He previously served as CBI Health’s Senior Clinical Educator for seven years on Vancouver Island and has taught continuing education courses throughout British Columbia and North America.

Meet Curtis Tait, BSC, MPT, IMS

Curtis has a bottomless appetite for both food and for learning and growing professionally. To this end he has taken courses in manual and manipulative therapy, IMS/dry needling, vestibular and neurological rehabilitation, as well as chronic pain seminars. Having worked in private practice, pain management, head injury programs, and in neuro-rehabilitation, Curtis works with all types of clients. Sports injuries, chronic pain conditions, vestibular, neurological and concussion presentations are all within Curtis' area of expertise. 

Cancellation Policy

A 10% cancellation fee will be applied to all refunds prior to 2 weeks before the beginning of the course. We cannot issue refunds within 2 weeks of the start date of the course.

Physiotherapists and physiotherapy students.
Participant learning will be assessed via interaction with the instructor throughout the workshop, question & answer, checking-in regarding consolidation of new learning and application to case studies during the live workshop.

At the conclusion of this event, AMP Healthcare Education will collect participant evaluations of the overall learning experience.

Participants will receive a course certificate upon competition.