myoActivation^ER

myoActivation^ER is a condensed adaptation of the myoActivation^® methodology that has been developed to provide a rapid algorithmic approach to assessment and treatment of common clinical presentations of pain and movement impairments in the emergency department or in an urgent care clinic.

Assessment involves a brief history followed by 1 to 4 relevant standardized tests of anatomical function. Treatment entails low risk, non-pharmaceutical needle insertions into dysfunctional soft tissues. myoActivation^ER may reduce the need for investigations in many patients and facilitates significantly reduced time to pain improvement allowing improved patient flow and patient, as well as provider, satisfaction.

The workshop will focus on learning both rapid biomechanical assessment and hands-on treatment skills in paired practice exercises. Each participant takes turns in being the needler and needlee. No medication is injected.

Pre-reading will entail 2.0 hours in preparation for the 7.0 instructional hours in the workshop. There will be an instructor:participant ratio of 1:4 or 1:2 pairs in the practice exercises.

myoActivation^® is a system of pain care that encompasses novel approaches to history taking, physical examination, non-pharmaceutical needling treatment, and aftercare.  An essential component to the myoActivation methodology is releasing the myofascial tension inherent in surgical or traumatic scars and remnants of soft tissue injury.

This half day workshop reviews the pathophysiology of scars, the mechanisms of tissue activation by cutting tip needles, patient assessment, treatment technique, patient responses to treatment, and aftercare.

Two presentation patients will be assessed and treated in real time to illustrate the changes in subjective pain and objective movement.

Through practice exercises in pairs, participants will experience the sensation of treatment and the changes in range of movement from release of scars as well as learn the techniques of scar release.

Cost: $300 + GST