Education and Resources
Explore a comprehensive collection of educational videos and materials designed to support physicians allied health professionals.
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IMPORTANT! This is a much-anticipated workshop with a waiting list every year.
Training Canadian Physicians in Standardized Prolotherapy Injection Techniques
HELD IN A WORLD-CLASS CADAVER LAB, ANNUALLY IN APRIL.
Advocating for the use of ultrasound guidance for all axial/spinal injections, and optional ultrasound use for peripheral injections. This is not an ultrasound training event, but also an opportunity to improve ultrasound skills in the lab while learning novel injection techniques.
This education applies equally to prolotherapy, platelet-rich
plasma or any other MSK injections. While our mandate is chiefly to Canadian physicians, 10% of participants can be NDs or NPs.
This is a much-anticipated workshop with a waiting list every year.
What's Involved
Mini Lectures
A half day of demonstrations and practice of accurate palpation and marking skills.
The Anatomy Lab
One and a half days are then spent in the anatomy lab, where instructors directly lead small groups of participants in the practice of injecting cadavers with and without ultrasound.
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* Although spinal structures have been injected in the past by experienced prolotherapists without the use of imaging, the CAOM now recommends all axial spine procedures should be performed with imaging, which usually involves ultrasound guidance.
Online Learning Streams
Palpation Techniques for Injection Without Ultrasound
These videos document palpation techniques for injection without ultrasound. Dr's. Adrian Gretton (Calgary) and Erik Ouellette (Ottawa) presented these resource videos at the first Canadian prolotherapy workshop. Both are extremely knowledgeable in the field of prolotherapy, with their international reputations. We are fortunate to have teachers of their caliber presenting in these videos.
Topics explored in this video series include palpation techniques for injection without ultrasound.
Musculoskeletal Examination Techniques and Introduction to Ultrasound Based Injections of Prolotherapy and PRP
Presented by Dr's. Zuzana Triska and Jonathan Chow. Topics explored in these video series includes articulation tests, discogenic low back pain, facetogenic low back pain, introduction to prolotherapy, lumbar spine, marking and scanning practices, sacroiliac joint, and thoracic spine, medial knee, and foot and ankle.