Description: Physicians and healthcare providers of all backgrounds area invited to join this weekend of spine care presentations: latest in medical research updates, demonstration of treatments and protocols, practical/clinical discussions of patient conditions from a variety of angles and how each discipline might approach their care. The camaraderie developed via this type of weekend's design will follow everyone back into the office for the benefit of doctors, researchers, and spine pain patients. Speakers will include chiropractors, neurosurgeon, radiologist, neurologist, spine researchers, and more. Emphasis will be on conservative spine stenosis treatment and surgical referral. Goals/Objectives: By the end of this interdisciplinary spine conference, the attendees will have a list of research papers about the current state of treatment options/outcomes, diagnosis physical and imaging, and presentation of patients with cervical spine myelopathy; a list of the latest research papers regarding the benefit of spinal manipulation; a practical guide to the application of Cox® Technic protocols for treating spine related pain; a description of the effects of spinal manipulation on the nervous system; an explanation of the role of chiropractic spinal manipulation in the care of spinal stenosis; a collection of spinal stenosis and cervical spine myelopathy cases from exam through clinical outcome to reference; a description of the vagal anti-inflammatory reflex as well as a treatment protocol to enhance it. Topics: This year's interdisciplinary spine conference will focus on spinal stenosis with special topics - from exam, diagnosis, treatment options & outcomes - to include cervical spine myelopathy, extremity pain, post-surgical, thoracic spine, vagal anti-inflammatory reflex, conservative spine stenosis treatment and surgical referral. Description: Physicians and healthcare providers of all backgrounds area invited to join this weekend of spine care presentations: latest in medical research updates, demonstration of treatments and protocols, practical/clinical discussions of patient conditions from a variety of angles and how each discipline might approach their care. The camaraderie developed via this type of weekend's design will follow everyone back into the office for the benefit of doctors, researchers, and spine pain patients. Speakers will include chiropractors, neurosurgeon, radiologist, neurologist, spine researchers, and more. Emphasis will be on conservative spine stenosis treatment and surgical referral. Goals/Objectives: By the end of this interdisciplinary spine conference, the attendees will have a list of research papers about the current state of treatment options/outcomes, diagnosis physical and imaging, and presentation of patients with cervical spine myelopathy; a list of the latest research papers regarding the benefit of spinal manipulation; a practical guide to the application of Cox® Technic protocols for treating spine related pain; a description of the effects of spinal manipulation on the nervous system; an explanation of the role of chiropractic spinal manipulation in the care of spinal stenosis; a collection of spinal stenosis and cervical spine myelopathy cases from exam through clinical outcome to reference; a description of the vagal anti-inflammatory reflex as well as a treatment protocol to enhance it. Topics: This year's interdisciplinary spine conference will focus on spinal stenosis with special topics - from exam, diagnosis, treatment options & outcomes - to include cervical spine myelopathy, extremity pain, post-surgical, thoracic spine, vagal anti-inflammatory reflex, conservative spine stenosis treatment and surgical referral.
