Courses

Do you find differential diagnosis with some hip and groin presentations difficult?

Want a clear understanding on how best to approach FAI Syndrome and Hip Dysplasia?

Are you frustrated with hip pain patients, who fail to progress, keep coming back with recurring problems?

Introducing The Adult Hip Patient: A Hybrid Course

This new Hybrid course will focus on assessment and management of the Adult Hip Patient. Key course theory will be sent to you approx. 10 days before the course date and you will be able to study this in your own time.

On the course day, Benoy will focus on practical skills, assessment techniques hands on techniques and interactive discussion, to maximise the F2F learning experience.

“Emily is a 32-year-old office worker and regular gym-goer. She had right anterior hip pain 10 months ago which was diagnosed as hip flexor strain and it responded favourably with previous physio. Her right hip pain has returned since she started cycling to work and she has been referred to physio.”

• How do you clinically determine if her symptoms are intra-articular or extra-articular?

• Is it FAI Syndrome or Hip Dysplasia?

• What are her treatment options? What is the best rehab strategy?

• When would you consider a surgical referral?

Like a lot of clinicians, you may see patients like Emily presenting with anterior hip and groin pain in private practice, sports medicine clinics or a primary care setting.

The hip and groin area is often viewed as a “black box” because of the complex anatomy and overlapping pain referral patterns. Whether it is the week-end warrior, yoga enthusiast or the competing triathlete, accurate diagnosis and management of hip and groin pain can be challenging. Conditions like hip impingement syndromes, labral tears, chondral lesions and hip dysplasia are being increasingly identified as cause of hip and groin pain in the physically active population between the ages of 18-45. Although, various treatment methods are reported there is a lack of consensus on the role of conservative management.

CONTENT

This one-day workshop is designed for all therapists who work with physically active patients with anterior hip and groin pain. The aim of the course is to provide a clear, honest and evidence-based look, combined with more than 25 years of clinical experience at what does and does not work in the assessment and conservative management of the active hip patient. A key goal would be for you to leave with things that both simplify the hip for you and help differential diagnoses what is going on, both articular and extra-articular pathologies of the hip.

This course is appropriate for qualified physiotherapists as well as other health professionals dealing with hip and groin pain.

What will you gain by attending the course?

• • Overview of the complex interaction of the groin and the hip joint including femoro-acetabular impingement, labral lesions, extra-articular pathologies and tendinopathy.

• • A detailed and a systematic physical examination will be covered using a novel and evidence-based tool (The layering concept) for the assessment of the adult hip patient and a solid understanding of differential diagnosis

• • Current conservative management of hip pain including hip impingement syndromes and clinical insights on managing complex presentation

• • Practical application of rehab exercises including progression of hip stabilisation exercises and dynamic mobility exercises for the hip

• Integration of the theory, current evidence and treatment tools with case studies