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 Young is a highly accomplished physiotherapist and educator. Graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Health Science in Physiotherapy from McMaster University and later earning a Transitional Doctorate of Physical Therapy, Steve has dedicated over two decades to patient care, specializing in orthopaedic rehabilitation and complex persistent pain. His clinical expertise is complemented by his passion for teaching and mentorship, as evidenced by his role as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia and his co-founding of AMP Healthcare Education, where he organizes and teaches continuing education courses.

Steve’s contributions to the field have been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Peter Huijbregts Memorial Scholarship Award and the British Columbia's Physical Therapy Association Award of Clinical Excellence.Beyond his clinical and teaching roles, Steve is a prolific contributor to the academic and professional community. He has served as Chief Editor of the Orthopaedic Division Review, authored numerous publications, and presented at scientific conferences on topics such as therapeutic alliance and evidence-based spinal care. A lifelong learner, Steve remains committed to advancing physiotherapy through research, education, and mentorship. 

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

Send cancellation/refund requests to admin@amphealthcare.ca

A 10% cancellation fee will be applied to all refunds requested prior to 1 month before the beginning of the course. We cannot issue refunds within 1 month of the start date of the course.

AMP Healthcare Education reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to insufficient registration. AMP Healthcare Education will notify participants of cancellation due to insufficient registration on or before one month prior to the start date of any live course.

AMP Healthcare Education reserves the right to modify, interrupt, change, or cancel the offering due to the presenter no longer being able to present the Workshop, severe weather, power failure, building closures or other special circumstances that are beyond the control of AMP Healthcare Education.

We will notify participants of any such changes as soon as possible. 

If the Workshop is cancelled by us due to insufficient registration or other circumstances outside of the control of AMP Healthcare Education, registrants will receive a full refund of their registration fee. It can take 5-10 business days to process the refund once it is issued.

AMP Healthcare Education will not be responsible for other costs or expenses incurred by registrants as a result of any such changes.
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.