Workshops

A feature of the conference is the variety and number of workshops. Participants will be able to attend four 90 minute workshops. We understand that it may be difficult to pick a workshop. Some will be run twice and the lunchtime events include some aspects of the workshops. Some workshops with 'hands on' manual techniques may be limited to licensed practitioners.

Workshops which are currently planned include:

Therapeutic latin dance. Tanja Jorgic will take you through samba, salsa and other dances. Dance will be used for activity pacing and integration with music, and all backed by neuroscience.

Conservative decompression of nerves.
A practical hands on workshop. The NOI team will take you through the fine handling and techniques of neurodynamics for the upper limb.

Cooking for pain management. Run by a well known chef, a nutritionist and occupational therapists, the workshop will take you through the use of cooking and food for pain treatment.

Graded motor imagery. Did you miss the GMI preconference course? Here is a chance for a practical introduction to graded motor imagery - the assessment and management of left/right discrimination, imagery exercises and mirror therapy. Led by Tim Beames.

The joys of metaphors. David Butler will take you through the use of metaphors and literal stories for the management of low back pain.

Explain Pain. Using his unique teaching strategies, including 'finding Rene', Lorimer Moseley presents a workshop on Explain Pain.

The Pat Wall legacies. Much of the direction and stimulus for this conference comes from the work of Patrick Wall, one of the authors of the gate control theory. Pat Wall died 10 years ago but his extraordinary writings and prophecies live on. Come on a rare deep neurobiological workshop with two clinical neuroscientists who worked with Pat: Mike Butler and Mick Thacker.

Swollen, painful and foreign. Using the latest neuroscience has to offer, Flavia Di Pietro and Luke Parkitny walk you through everything you need to know about the role of inflammation and the brain in CRPS.

Using our thinking for a change. A teacher of the Alexander technique for 26 years, and trainer for 13, David Moore will show us how to apply a means of thinking and understand a paradigm which may enrich your current way of working with patients.

Nerve protection strategies. The role of nerve protection strategies in the management of some peripheral neurogenic pain presentations- Anton Harms will demonstrate the rationale behind these strategies with the radial, median, ulna, sciatic, brachial plexus and peroneal nerves.

Treating the sensitive nervous system. Unveiling her tools for clinical decision making through complex patient scenarios, Nora Stern helps us to understand when to put your hands on a patient, and when and why you would take them off.

Liberating the pelvic floor 1. Sandy Hilton and Carolyn Vandyken present a pelvic pain workshop based on biopsychosocial principles. This workshop may combine with 'Liberating the virtual vagina (and penis)'.

Liberating the pelvic floor 2. Pelvic pain and dysfunction is as common as low back pain. Trish Neumann presents a workshop on integrating modern techniques of education, imagery and exercise to pelvic pain.

Feldenkrais and the neuromatrix.
Susan Hillier presents a practical workshop – Moshe Feldenkrais was clearly ahead of his time in his use of the principles of neuroplasticity.

Spirituality and Health. A minister, spiritualist, atheist and neuroscientist meet to present and discuss issues around spirituality and health.

Health coaching. Difficult clients or clueless clinicians? Why won't they do what I say? Janette Gale and Caroline Bills take us on a Health Coaching journey.

Explain the pain of surgery. Adriaan Louw presents a workshop on the ideal education for patients and health practitioners to have prior to surgery.

The left and right side workshop. The ability to discriminate whether a person can identify human limbs as left or right may be a critical element in pain management. Research is presented here from large studies on the neck, back, and face. NOI/UniSA

Facial pain. Is the ability for facial recognition and the expression of emotions in patients with chronic facial pain different from that of healthy subjects? Led by Harry von Piekartz.

Mindfulness. Georgie Davidson presents an experience involving the science and practical applications of mindfulness referred to as 'the art of conscious living'.

The art and science of clinical decision making. Interview strategies for physiotherapy psychosocial assessment: Videotaped case study application of neuroscience to practice through questions, responses and reasoning including a demonstration of Explain Pain and strategies to optimise patient learning. Led by Mark Jones and Dr Ian Edwards.

Smart exercises for brains and bodies. Stabilise both brain and body in a workshop with Trish Wisbey-Roth – modern functional rehabilitation.

Mikki Townshend puts the back into Pilates. She will demonstrate how to provide positive movement experiences with balance, coordination, neural gliding, imagery and visualisation and how to 'get jazzy' with patients.

The new wave of screening and outcome measures. Philip Gabel teaches us how to facilitate accurate recovery rate, time and cost predictions in a simple, practical and computerised way that will allow electronic integration and sharing of health information.

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Workshops