Kalenteri

Event Description:
In the course, we explore how to help those in pain reset their bodily protection responses, including pain, through sense-making, movement exploration, load management, mindfulness, and strategies to calm a highly sensitized system.  Additionally, the course is supported by the book, Bodily Relearning (International) / Bodily Relearning (USA), (Boyd 2023, Noigroup Publications).

Since its debut in 2023, the Bodily Relearning course has been presented in over a dozen cities across five countries, reaching nearly 500 attendees. 

About the instructor:
Bernhard Taxer, MSc (OMT)
Bernhard’s interests lie in the fields of persistent, neuro-musculo-skeletal symptoms,  neuropathic pain syndromes, headaches and orofacial pain. In the course of the last twenty years, Bernhard has completed several manual therapy concepts, his master’s degree in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and his OMT diploma. He finished with his PhD in 2023 in the research field of migraine and is currently working in a post-doc position in Salzburg / Austria. He was welcomed into the NOI Group in 2018 as a training instructor and commenced teaching in 2020.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Evaluate healthy notions of pain for use as therapeutic narratives with people suffering from pain
- Apply appropriate metaphors, narratives, and experiential tools to explore the underlying neuroimmune mechanisms behind a pain experience
- Examine the sensitivity of the neuroimmune system
- Identify physical stress management strategies to positively impact the neuroimmune system
- Evaluate ways to integrate neurodynamic based movement exploration treatments with other elements of clinical care
- Develop appropriate progressions and regressions for neurodynamic based movement exploration treatment recommendations
- Explain the use of mindfulness practices to help reteach our bodily protection responses associated with pain

Target Group:
The course is designed for health professionals and movement-based practitioners working within the medical and healthcare communities to help people suffering from pain.

There are no specific prerequisites to attending this course, although a basic level of peripheral nerve anatomy and physiology is assumed.

Course language is english

Content:
This course includes live, in-person discussions, didactic lectures, movement exploration labs, mindfulness practice, and clinical case discussions over two days.

Day 1, time 11.00 - 20.00

• Welcome and Introduction.
• Movement Lab – exploring movement and assessing bodily protection responses.
• Discussion - exploring a humanistic approach to making sense of pain…together; exploring healthy notions of pain for an active lifestyle.
• Demonstration - metaphors and narratives to help make sense of neuroimmune adaptations associated with persistent pain.
• Movement Lab – using movement exploration to reset neuroimmune system sensitivity.
• Discussion - exploring physical stress management as a means of bodily relearning, part 1.
• Demonstration - metaphors and narratives to decouple pain and movement, discussing the twin peaks and bubbles of safety and protection.
• Mindfulness Lab - assessing bodily protection responses.
• Case Presentation - lower quarter case, including themes of knowledge/insight exploration, engagement in functional activity progressions, physical stress management approaches, mindfulness practices, and movement exploration.

Day 2, time 8.00 - 16.30

• Reflection on Day 1.
• Movement Lab – using movement exploration to reset neuroimmune system sensitivity.
• Discussion – exploring our interconnected, complex body ecosystem and opportunities to engage in activities that positively influence our neuroimmune system.
• Discussion - exploring physical stress management part 2; restoring and reintroducing essential physical stressors; neurodynamic-based exercise principles; discussing self-monitoring, progressions, and regressions with patients.
• Movement Lab – using movement exploration to reset neuroimmune system sensitivity.
• Mindfulness Lab - retraining bodily protection responses.
• Discussion – holistically exploring modifiable factors to positively affect the neuroimmune system, building resilience, and exploring the power of language and labels.
• Case Presentation - upper quarter case, including themes of knowledge/insight exploration, engagement in functional activity progressions, physical stress management approaches, mindfulness practices, and movement exploration.
• Summary and conclusions. 

Accommodation:

There is an opportunity to make a hotel reservation with special offer at Hotel Haaga Central Park:

Standard room for one 95 € / night https://www.hotelhaaga.fi/en/guest-rooms/standard/

Standard room for two 112 € / night https://www.hotelhaaga.fi/en/guest-rooms/standard/

Superior room for one 107 € / night https://www.hotelhaaga.fi/en/guest-rooms/superior/

Superior room for two 127 € / night https://www.hotelhaaga.fi/en/guest-rooms/superior/

Room rates include an abundant, fresh and varied buffet breakfast, use of the sauna, swimming pool and the gym as well as group fitness classes (excluding SUP). Wonderful wellness services with treatments and fitness services are also available at our hotel.

Room reservations hotel@haaga.fi or 09 5807 877

You need to mention SOMTY course to make reservation with the special offer and based on the offer capacity. Hotel reseption is open from 7 am to 10 pm.

About the hotel:
https://www.hotelhaaga.fi/en/hotel/