This highly practical course will give you the skills and knowledge to accurate diagnose of Patello-femoral pain considering differential diagnosis. The course explores ideal lower limb biomechanics, explore local, proximal and distal deficits related to PFP, and how to identify and address them in a clinical setting. The evidence behind, and practical application of interventions including prefabricated foot orthoses prescription, taping, movement pattern retraining, exercise rehabilitation, and adjunctive manual therapy are explored.

The course will be a mixture of lectures, discussions and practical workshops.

Objectives of the Patello-femoral Rehabilitation course:

• Make an accurate diagnosis of PFP, considering differential diagnosis of tendon, ligament, meniscus and joint pathologies
• Be aware of common local, proximal and distal deficits related to PFP and how to identify their presence in a clinical setting
• Effectively apply evidence based interventions in the clinical setting, including: exercise (local, proximal and distal), taping, massage/mobilisation, and adjunctive interventions
• Develop skills and clinical reasoning processes to apply running retraining interventions when treating running related injuries
• Progress exercise to patients required function
• Understand the implications of adolescent PFP and PFJ osteoarthritis and how best to manage them in a clinical setting

Who should attend?

All therapists with an interest in Evidence Based in Patello-femoral Rehabilitation

Agenda

8.45 Registration

9.00 Diagnostics and differential diagnostics

9.30 Typical deficits in patients with patellofemoral pain

10.30 Break

10.45 Intervention options for PFP and the evidence base

11.15 Clinical assessment of potential deficits

12.15 Lunch

12.45 Evidence-based treatment of PFP and tailoring a multimodal program: taping, mobilisation, soft tissue, strengthening and stretching

14.00 Distal interventions – footwear, foot orthoses, taping and strengthening

14.45 Movement pattern retraining

15.30 Considerations for adolescents and PFJ osteoarthritis

16.00 Summary of assessment, potential treatment options with additional considerations related to education and prognosis

16.30 Questions and answers

17.00 Close

Note:

• Each activity will consist of theoretical and practical components
• Please bring shorts to the course for practical sessions
• Refreshment including tea/coffees will be provided.

Tutor:

Dr Christian Barton PhD, BPhysio (Hons), MCSP, MAPA

Christian qualified as a physiotherapist in 2005 in Australia, and completed his PhD relating to patellofemoral pain, lower limb biomechanics, and predictors of foot orthoses outcomes in 2010.

At various private practices and sports medicine centres in Australia and London he has continued to combine research with clinical practice, maintaining part time research roles including student supervision in the ‘Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine’ at Queen Mary University of London; as Research Director at Pure Sports Medicine in London, and as a Research Fellow in La Trobe University’s Musculoskeletal Research Centre. His current research interests include developing guidelines for running retraining interventions, lower limb biomechanics associated with various pathologies, and improving the translation of research to clinical practice. Clinically, Christian specialises in the management of knee and patellofemoral pain, and running related injuries.

Christian has many peer reviewed publications. He is also the lead author of the 'Clinical aspects of biomechanics and sporting injuries' Chapter in the most recent addition of Brukner and Khan's 'Clinical Sports Medicine'.

Here is a google scholar profile with list of his publications: http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=HsUEfu4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Christian's blogs, which might be useful to read:

www.biomechanics.completesportscare.com.au

www.patellofemoral.completesportscare.com.au

The course venue

How to get there

Tube

Kensal Green Tube station (Bakerloo Line) is a seven minute walk from the venue

To check for work on the tube use the Transport for London journey planner please go to www.tfl.gov.uk

Train

Kensal Rise station is on the London Overground network on the Statford-Richmond/Stratford-Clapham Junction line. It is also a seven minute walk away.

Kensal Green Station (same as the tube station mentioned above) is also on the London Overground network on the London Euston-Watford Junction Line.

Buses

Bus Route 18: Sudbury and Harrow Road to Euston - Alight at Kilburn Lane and walk 2 minutes to Wellington Road.

Bus Route 52: Victoria station to Pound Lane - Alight at Harrow Road and walk 2 minutes to Wellington Road.

Bus Route 316: Mora road to White City bus station - Alight at Harrow Road/Kilburn Lane stop and walk 1 minute to Wellington Road.

Location Map

APPI Kensal Rise