How can you thoroughly assess your neck pain patients, and use the information from your assessment to guide your treatment? What treatments are effective in helping patients overcome their neck pain?

In the first podcast with Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, researcher and Emeritus Prof. Gwen Jull 121. Neck pain assessment, clinical reasoning & rehab. Physio Edge podcast with Prof Gwendolen Jull, we discussed questions to ask during your subjective history that help guide your neck pain assessment and clinical reasoning.

In this followup podcast, discover how to accurately assess and effectively treat neck pain with Emeritus Prof. Gwen Jull, including:

Objective examination (OE)

• How to perform a thorough OE.
• What information a skilled manual assessment provides.
• What we can actually identify & diagnose.
• How to use your OE to guide your Rx.
• Whether posture is relevant to neck pain.
• When and how to assess posture.
• How to assess physical impairments, and identify if they’re relevant to a patients neck pain.
• Common impairments that exist in neck pain patients
• Which tests are valuable for:
  • ROM
  • Strength
  • Endurance

Treatment

• How to decide where to start with your treatment.
• Whether manual therapy (MT) is useful in the treatment of neck pain.
• How to decide whether to use
  • MT.
  • Postural changes.
  • Strength exercises.
  • Control exercises.
  • Neurodynamic treatment.
  • General strength and endurance training.
  • Exercises for flexibility and range of motion.
  • Graded activity.
  • Motor control.
  • Aerobic exercise for general fitness.
• How to use symptom modification to help decide on your treatment.
• How to target our treatment to what your patient needs and will get the most benefit from.
• Neck exercises and treatment progressions.
• How do you decide on the treatment progression to use.
• Whether there is evidence to include shoulder strength in neck pain patients.
• Craniocervical flexion test - when do you use this?
• Whether the biofeedback cuff is essential to use with neck pain patients.
• How craniocervical flexion exercises compare to cervical spine physiological flexion.
• When to have a strength focus in your treatment.
• How to incorporate strength training in treatment.
• How to improve the likelihood of successful neck pain treatment.

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• 121. Neck pain assessment, clinical reasoning & rehab. Physio Edge podcast with Prof Gwendolen Jull
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• Prof Gwen Jull
• Management of Neck Pain Disorders: a research informed approach 1st Edition, by Gwendolen Jull, Deborah Falla, Julia Treleaven, Shaun O'Leary, and foreword by Jeremy S Lewis
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When patients have a running injury, such as knee pain or Achilles tendinopathy, do we need to include strength training in their rehab? Discover when strength training is an important part of comprehensive running injury rehab in this podcast with Tom Goom (Running Physio), and explore:

• Whether strength is important in runners.
• Whether patients that are stronger are less likely to develop running injuries.
• Why recent research found higher levels of strength in recently injured runners compared to uninjured runners.
• When we need to improve patients' strength in running injury rehab.
• Can strength training reduce the risk of running injuries?
• How strength training fits into a comprehensive rehab program.
• When strength is relevant to pain and pathology.
• When rehab does NOT need to include strength training.
• How to know what to focus on during rehab.
• Which patients don’t require exercises or strength training.
• How to identify when strength goals are a barrier to recovery and return to running.
• Additional benefits of strength training, beyond improved strength.

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Your comprehensive guide to ITB assessment & treatment with Tom Goom

If you treat runners, walkers, cyclists or rowers you'll regularly see patients with lateral knee pain from an irritated iliotibial band (ITB).

What causes ITB syndrome? How can you assess, diagnose and successfully treat it?

CLICK HERE to get immediate access to a free three part video series that will help you successfully treat ITB pain, covering:

• Video 1 - Discover what causes ITBS, how to explain it to your patients, and 2 treatments you NEED to avoid.

• Video 2 - How to quickly & accurately assess ITBS, other potential diagnoses, and a common ITB test you can stop doing now.

• Video 3 - How to successfully treat ITBS. You'll explore practical demonstrations of exercises, gait retraining, load management and treatment you can use to get great results with your ITB patients.

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Lateral hip pain assessment, diagnosis & treatment video series

To improve your lateral hip pain assessment, diagnosis & treatment skills, CLICK HERE for your access to 3 free videos presented by Tom Goom

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• Successfully treat ITB pain with this free three part video series with Tom Goom.
• Improve your lateral hip pain assessment, diagnosis & treatment skills with 3 free videos presented by Tom Goom
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Patients may develop stiffness following rotator cuff repair or other shoulder surgery, particularly with longer periods of immobilisation. On the other hand, some patients may fail rehab without sufficient immobilisation. How can you identify which patients are likely to develop stiffness and will benefit from early mobilisation? Find out in this podcast with Jo Gibson (Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist), and discover:

• Which patients are likely to benefit from rotator cuff or other surgical repair.
• How to plan post-op surgical rehab.
• Whether patients should have a period of immobilisation or not.
• How to predict patients that are likely to develop post-op shoulder stiffness.
• Metabolic, genetic, age-related and psychosocial factors that influence development of stiffness.
• Pre-operative and surgical factors that influence development of stiffness.
• How to reduce the likelihood of stiffness developing.
• Comparison between early post-op shoulder mobilisation and six weeks in a sling.
• Patients more likely to fail a RC repair, who may need more of a conservative approach to early mobilisation.
• How to explain mobilisation vs immobilisation to patients.
• Short and long term outcomes when patients develop stiffness.
• Frozen shoulder
  • If and when corticosteroid injections are helpful.
  • The role of P. acnes in development of frozen shoulder.

Free video series “Frozen shoulder assessment & treatment” with Jo Gibson

Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson

Improve your assessment and treatment of shoulder pain with the Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson, now available for enrolment at clinicaledge.co/shouldersuccess

Links associated with this episode:

• Accurately assess, diagnose & treat frozen shoulder, with this free videos series from Jo Gibson
• Improve acute shoulder pain diagnosis with 3 free videos from Jo Gibson
• Comprehensively assess and treat shoulder pain with the Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson
• Improve your confidence and clinical reasoning with a free trial Clinical Edge membership
• Join Jo Gibson live on Facebook & ask your shoulder related questions every Monday
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Can you solve this case of a badminton player with a five year history of posterior shoulder pain and shoulder fatigue with overhead movements? Find out in this podcast with Jo Gibson (Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist). Discover the diagnosis and why the patient hasn’t improved with rehabilitation, as Jo reveals the case study and:

• Subjective clues to help diagnose this condition.
• Questions to ask in the subjective history.
• Differential diagnoses to keep in mind.
• How to identify and rule out red flags.
• Clinical tests to use to rule this condition in and out.
• What medical tests and MRI reveal.
• Common causes of this condition.
• Conservative, medical and surgical management and results.
• Ideal treatment pathways for this condition.

Free video series “Frozen shoulder assessment & treatment” with Jo Gibson

Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson

Improve your assessment and treatment of shoulder pain with the Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson, now available for enrolment at clinicaledge.co/shouldersuccess

Links associated with this episode:

• Get your access to the free video series “Frozen shoulder assessment & treatment” with Jo Gibson
• Improve your shoulder assessment & treatment with the Shoulder: Steps to Success online course with Jo Gibson
• Improve your confidence and clinical reasoning with a free trial Clinical Edge membership
• Join Jo Gibson live on Facebook & ask your shoulder related questions every Monday
• Download and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes
• Download the podcast now using the best podcast app currently in existence - Overcast
• Listen to the podcast on Spotify
• Jo Gibson on Twitter
• Let David know what you liked about this podcast on Twitter
• Review the podcast on iTunes
• Infographics by Clinical Edge