Upcoming Medical Conferences in Overland Park

Clinical Certainty Through Functional Assessment is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Nov 23 - 24, 2019 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. Description:  This course will incorporate hands on and practical experience necessary to perform a thorough exam for an infant. We will cover the first encounter with the infant and parent(s), examination procedures and communication of the findings. We will discuss the importance of the primitive reflexes that are present initially from birth to one year, how they correlate to milestones, nervous system and brain development. Then, we will look at the examination for an older child with a neurodevelopmental delay. For the older child, we will look at what results when the primitive reflexes are retained, the necessity of chiropractic care to assist with their inhibition and how correcting subluxations helps to restore brain balance. Course Goal: You will master how to perform a thorough examination and you will know how to communicate the results in a way that is meaningful to the parents. Certainty comes from having the technical skills first and then the ability to be able to communicate findings so that the parents engage their child in care. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Research: Evidence-Informed Practice is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Nov 23 - 24, 2019 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is chiropractors and students of 5th quarter/4th trimester or higher. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. CE Credits Request Fee: $45 per class. This fee is additional to seminar cost and is non-refundable. Course Goal: Overview of current published research: understanding the various types of research and essentials of the case history. Application of current research and its relevance to case management in the family practice. Participants will be introduced to the methodology of preparing a case study for publication.​​ To provide the attendee with the most relevant research in the chiropractic care of children and impart the ability to critically appraise and integrate/reconcile the research findings with the chiropractic empirical/clinical experience for the purpose of teaching, research and practice. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Anxiety in the Classroom is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 04, 2019 at Holiday Inn & Suites Overland Park-West, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 hours of continuing education credit / 6.0 contact hours. Target Audience: • Teachers • Social Workers • Psychologists • Counselors • School Administrators • Occupational Therapists • Principals • Assistant Principals • Speech-Language Pathologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children Description: The increasing rate of stress and trauma to children, which includes divorce, global terrorism and violence, extensive technology use, media overload, bullying and diversity issues, has produced a “shell shocked” generation of students struggling to manage their anxiety. The challenge for those working in schools is to recognize the increasing anxiety level in students and help them cope. Christina Reese, LCPC, PHD, will teach you how, why and when anxiety develops in young people. The various manifestations for anxiety will be described, so that anxious students can be recognized and supported. Christina will help you distinguish between normal anxiety and anxiety disorders, and give you a principle for making this distinction in school settings. Most importantly, you will learn practical strategies that can be applied immediately in the classroom setting and schools to reduce anxiety, enhance teaching effectiveness, and promote maximum learning. Objectives: • Design effective strategies to decrease the stress response in kids with learning disabilities to improve information processing, listening skills, and comprehension. • Summarize the different ways anxiety manifests in the classroom (worry, social isolation, attention deficits, etc.) and determine the appropriate strategy for reducing symptoms. • Implement a three-step skill building model for stress management among young clients. • Utilize classroom friendly calming and relaxation activities to keep students engaged. • Determine the signs of normal aging vs anxiety disorders to enhance teaching effectiveness. • Evaluate the impact deep breathing exercises have on anxiety to enable task completion in the classroom.

Eval & Adjusting Protocols: Correcting Spinal & Cranial is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Dec 07 - 08, 2019 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. Course Description:  Expand your effectiveness and capabilities with your pediatric patients. In this hands-on workshop, you will explore the spinal and cranial adjusting techniques that can be implemented into your current practice paradigm. Examination, assessment and spinal and cranial adjusting for the child are taught using specialized meningeal and structural techniques founded on Sacro Occipital Technique principles.  Course Goals: You will gain an understanding and working knowledge of how to evaluate, locate and correct pediatric primary cranial and spinal subluxation patterns. The course work focuses on ages 0-18 months using neurological indicators and objective evaluation protocols to determine these primary patterns and their corrections. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Manual Therapy for the Piriformis & Quadratus Lumborum: The Solution to Back & Pelvic Pain You Are Missing is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 12, 2019 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Kansas City - Overland Park, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 7.0 CE hours. Target Audience: • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Massage Therapists • Occupational Therapists • Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants • Athletic Trainers • Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists • Exercise Physiologists • Personal Trainers • Rehab Nurses Course Description: Your work with lower back pain can give patients their lives back, allowing them to once again enjoy the things that debilitating pain had taken from them.  The piriformis and quadratus lumborum, often-missed muscles in back and pelvic pain, can mimic other dysfunctions frustrating your ability to identify the root of your patients’ problem. Not only that, the piriformis and quadratus lumborum are difficult muscles to palpate, leaving you feeling hesitant and uncertain in your treatment plan.  Don’t go down the wrong treatment path, feeling defeated and worried that your client will face surgery that you can help them avoid.  Feel your confidence grow and your skills sharpen as you gain new, evidence-based strategies to release the quadratus Lumborum and piriformis and stop the pain in as little as 4 to 6 sessions.  Identify the root of the problem the first time by using special assessment tests and measures, so you can address the pain and restore function quicker. Utilizing case studies and demonstration lab time, you will walk away from this workshop immediately ready to confidently tackle low back and pelvis pain in your patients.  Peggy Lamb, LMT, has spent the last 30 plus years as a manual therapist. In that time, she has treated numerous low back and pelvic dysfunctions by effectively releasing these two difficult and often overlooked muscles, giving her patients a new lease on life. Her experience and knowledge will allow you to do the same for your patients. Objectives: • Classify the anatomy of the low back and pelvis and what roles the piriformis and quadratus lumborum play. • Identify assessment tests for a short piriformis and piriformis syndrome. • Examine trigger point referral patterns of the piriformis and quadratus lumborum. • Practice techniques for palpating, stretching, and releasing the piriformis and lateral rotators. • Create plan of care using standing, prone, and side-lying techniques to gently and effectively release the quadratus lumborum and ultimately save your hands. • Discuss strategies for avoiding reoccurring injuries of the low back and pelvis.

Trauma & Attachment: Effective Treatment Strategies for Helping Challenging Clients is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 18, 2019 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Kansas City - Overland Park, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Target Audience: • Social Workers • Counselors • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Therapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Psychiatrists • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Description: Join internationally known attachment and trauma therapist, Gale Kelley, Ed.D., LMHC, CETP, in this cutting-edge seminar as he teaches you concepts and skills necessary to facilitate positive change with challenging clients with trauma and/or attachment wounds. You will learn effective assessment and therapeutic techniques for children, adults and couples, based on the latest research in neurobiology, trauma and attachment therapy, and resilience. Clinical videos will illustrate how various interventions promote change and healing with the following issues: • Beliefs and attitudes • Attachment security in children and adults • Traumatic emotions, behaviors, mindsets, and brain/biochemistry • Self-regulation • Communication and resilience • Family dynamics • Controlling, defiant and resistant clients. Through video case studies, presentation and discussion, you will leave this seminar with practical and effective techniques you can use to help clients achieve symptom reduction, fulfilling lives and meaningful relationships. Objectives: • Determine the psychological, social, cognitive, and biological aspects of trauma and attachment disorders as it relates to clinical treatment. • Develop an assessment plan to effectively identify your client’s history for trauma and attachment wounds. • Provide techniques to improve your client’s emotional regulation skills, reframe core beliefs and improve interpersonal skills. • Utilize communication based methods for conflict management and to promote secure attachment for your clients. • Develop strategies to help your clients achieve posttraumatic growth including the creation of positive personal and relationship goals. • Teach your clients, in-session, how to achieve secure and fulfilling relationships by facilitating attachment security.

Cranial Eval & Adjusting Protocols for the Infant and Child is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Jan 11 - 12, 2020 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is open to chiropractors and students: 5th quarter/4th trimester or higher. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of Continuing Education credits. Description: This course was previously titled "Eval and Adjusting Protocols: Correcting Primary Spinal and Cranial Subluxation Patterns" and taught by Dr. Martin Rosen. Expand your effectiveness and capabilities with your pediatric patients. In this hands-on workshop, you will explore the spinal and cranial adjusting techniques that can be implemented into your current practice paradigm. Examination, assessment and spinal and cranial adjusting for the child are taught using specialized meningeal and structural techniques founded on Sacro Occipital Technique principles. Course Goal: You will gain an understanding and working knowledge of how to evaluate, locate and correct pediatric primary cranial and spinal subluxation patterns. The course work focuses on ages 0-18 months using neurological indicators and objective evaluation protocols to determine these primary patterns and their corrections. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Family Nutrition: Epigenetics and Parental Health and Nutrition for the Perinatal Period is organized by International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) and will be held from Jan 11 - 12, 2020 at Cleveland University-Kansas City, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 hours of continuing education credits. Course Description: Gain an understanding of nutrition and learn how to effectively incorporate this information into your practice. Explore the relationships between epigenetics, nutrition, fertility and family health. Understand the latest findings in epigenetics and the roles of sugar and pH in health and disease. You'll learn how optimal nutrition can improve fertility, how poor nutrition can weaken fertility and the effects of nutrition during and after pregnancy. Course Goals: In this course, you will gain a vitalistic understanding of nutrition, create a working knowledge of lifestyle-based ways of eating and understand nutrition from an ecosystematic level, epigenetic level and how it will affect future generations. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

The New Face of Anxiety: Treating Anxiety Disorders in the Age of Texting, Social Media and 24/7 Internet Access is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 16, 2020 at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Kansas City - Overland Park, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: • Social Workers • Psychologists • Counselors • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Therapists • Nurses • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapist Assistants • Marriage & Family Therapists • Other Mental Health Professionals Course Description: Texting rather than talking. Gathering “likes” and followers. Making friends via a gaming console. Unrelenting 24/7 news cycles. Ready or not, the rise of social media, and 24/7 Internet access has changed the way we relate to one another (and ourselves), leaving in its wake a whole new set of challenges for those who use it. As therapists, you see people of all ages with these issues: The girl who can’t put her phone away during session. The boy who isn’t sleeping after reading messages on social media. “Friends” of all ages who shame each other for life choices and argue by text. The socially anxious young adult who struggles to meet people in person because all of his “friends” are online. The parent who has to contend with “Facebook shaming” for every parenting decision. The older adult who feels out of touch and disconnected. The impact is rampant and pervasive – as a result, treatment of anxiety doesn’t look the same anymore. Attend this unique and engaging seminar to learn innovative ways to treat this new facet of anxiety with today’s client. You’ll discover: • Key questions to ask at assessment to uncover problematic use of technology • How excessive screen time affects mood, anxiety and self-worth in clients of all ages • Tools to help clients regulate their emotions and make wise decisions (on and offline) • Innovative techniques for promoting healthy use of technology with clients • Deliberate strategies for managing time, device use and “information overload” Objectives: • Evaluate the impact persistent “screen time” exposure can have on the neurobiological and psychological health of clients. • Implement strategies to effectively reduce excessive use of technology that leads to avoidance and increased anxiety. • Increase clients’ capacity to utilize technology in a healthy manner to decrease risk of anxiety and other mental health symptoms. • Establish clinical practices that decrease rumination and build resilience to the stress of the digital world. • Teach clients five strategies for overcoming irrational fears of social interaction in order to improve clinical outcomes. • Implement cognitive-behavioral strategies for challenging distorted beliefs and the “comparison fallacy” as related to online interactions.

Myofascial Cupping Practitioner Certification Course is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 21, 2020 at Holiday Inn & Suites Overland Park-West, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours or .6 CEUs. Target Audience: • Physical Therapists/ PTAs • Occupational Therapists/OTAs • Athletic Trainers • Massage Therapists • Personal Trainers Course Description: Become a Certified Myofascial Cupping Practitioner in this hands-on course powered by RockTape, and boost your credentials as you learn everything you need to know to offer cupping services the next day. Myofascial Cupping Practitioner Certification teaches the fundamentals of modern cupping techniques through a full day of interactive labs. Learn how to combine cupping and functional movement to produce the kinds of active treatment strategies that are revolutionizing rehab. Discover effective cupping treatments you can use for pain, sprains/strains, swelling, tendinopathies, and more. Objectives: • Review the principles of myofascial cupping and supporting evidence. • Describe the physiological and neurological effects of cupping. • Demonstrate how to apply cupping for best results. • Compare and contrast common cupping techniques and review indications/contraindications for each. • Demonstrate how cupping techniques can be combined with corrective exercise to improve pain, sprains/strains, swelling, tendinopathies, and more. • Develop cupping applications based on your assessment/treatment approach and the individual needs of your patient.