Primary Spine Care
16: Clinical Necessity for Relationships with MDs and Lawyers Live Webinar
November 2-3, 2024
Course Description:
This course details the clinical skills required to collaborate with
medical specialists and be considered an expert in the medical-legal community.
These skills encompass triage, neurodiagnostics, and advanced imaging
interpretation, all of which will be thoroughly taught in this course, ready
for immediate application in your practice.
Key Learning Objectives:
1.
Triage Skills: Learn to effectively assess and
prioritize patient conditions to determine the urgency of care needed, ensuring
optimal patient outcomes.
2.
Neurodiagnostics: Gain expertise in diagnosing
neurological disorders through various diagnostic techniques and tools.
3.
Advanced Imaging Interpretation: Develop the
ability to accurately interpret advanced imaging results such as MRIs, CT
scans, and X-rays, crucial for informed clinical decision-making.
Goals:
- Equip yourself
with the skills to collaborate with medical specialists effectively.
- Improve patient
care through advanced diagnostic and interpretive abilities.
Module 1 – 2 Hours -
Current and Future Trends in Documentation & Practice
Growth - History Taking & Examination
Mark Studin DC,
Don Capoferri DC
Evidence-Based demonstrative documentation is typically the
arbiter for creating successful patient-centered collaborative care. This
"reputation building" focus has already helped develop relationships
with MD PCPs, MD Specialists, ERs, and Urgent Care Centers. This
demonstratively removed the Non-Specific Back Pain "Dogma" that too
many have held because technology and the evidence have not supported what
chiropractic has known for over a century. We now have those tools, and once
learned, chiropractic utilization "skyrockets” because of the evidence.
Module 2 – 2 Hours - MRI Spine Case
Review -Diagnostic Testing & Differential Diagnosis
Patricia Roche DO,
Radiology, Neuroradiology
Mark Studin DC
Clinical case
review of MRI's including sagittal, axial, T1, T2, STIR, and proton density
sequences. The vertebrate, spinal cord, discs, nerve roots, thecal sac,
posterior longitudinal ligament, epidural veins, and fat saturation pulses will
be identified. Pathology will include bulges, herniations, protrusions,
extrusions, myelomalacia, cord edema, and Schmorl's nodes.
Module 3 – 1 Hour - Triage
Part 1 -Diagnostic Testing & Differential Diagnosis
Mark Studin DC
Don Capoferri DC
Triage Skills: Learn how to effectively assess
and prioritize patient conditions in chronic and trauma cases to determine the
urgency of care needed, ensuring optimal patient outcomes. Then, create a
care-path using all available tools to conclude and accurate diagnosis.
Module 4 – 2 Hours Age-Dating
Herniated Disc, Diagnostic Testing &
Differential Diagnosis
Mark Studin DC
Don Capoferri DC
Age-dating herniated discs and trauma is a critical skill for
an expert in spine. It combines the clinical skills of interpreting X-ray, MRI,
and other imaging modalities with a clinician's understanding of joint
pathology. This level of expertise is critical when collaborating with other
physicians or working in the medical-legal environment as an expert. Age-dating
pathology is also central to creating a prognosis on your patient's recovery
and must be evidence-based rationale.
Module 5 – 2 Hour - Updated Trends in Spinal Biomechanics and Ligamentous Pathology
- History Taking &
Examination
Mark Studin DC
Don Capoferri DC
Diagnosis and management of ligament (connective tissue)
pathology in chronic and acute patients. Evidence-based physiology of morphology,
mechanisms, and sequella to trauma inclusive of compensatory actions of the
human spine. Master-Class in ligaments; anatomy, physiology,
vascularization, neurological innervation, tissue repair and how they all
relate to clinical practice. Ligament
pathology correlates to the mechanisms of path-neuro-biomechanical lesions
(vertebral subluxation complex). Also, how ligaments play a critical role in
chiropractic spinal adjustment and defining the chiropractic spinal adjustment
mechanisms.
Sunday, November
12, 2023
Module 6 – 1 Hour - Case
History Presentation- History Taking & Examination
Mark Studin DC
Don Capoferri DC
Clinical grand rounds of a
case include disc, ligament, and spinal pathology. The creation of the
diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment plan. The changing of treatment plans and
diagnosis based upon follow-up examinations.
Module 7 – 2 hours – Latest
Evidence on Making Non-Specific Back Pain Specific - Diagnostic Testing &
Differential Diagnosis
Mark Studin DC
Don Capoferri DC
An evidence-based approach to spinal diagnosis and dispelling “non-specific
back pain.” A tutorial on taking the evidence and collaboratively with medical
specialists managing cases based upon the conclusive diagnosis.
Module 8 – 3 Hours - Creating Ethical Collaborative Relationships and the
Documentation that Fosters Those Relationships -Ethical
Billing & Coding
Mark Studin DC
Don Capoferri DC
Discussing the Future trends in chiropractic
and clinical record keeping is an integral part of good professional practice
and delivering quality healthcare. But as healthcare changes with new
technology and reimbursement models, so should clinical documentation. It can
be helpful to go back to the basics. In this step-by-step guide to taking
perfect clinical notes, we will cover:
- Why write clinical notes
- The importance of context
- What to include in a clinical note
- Tips for better clinical documentation
- Basic legal considerations
Total Academic Time: 15 Hours
