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Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Painful Cervical Radiculopathy  - Considerations for the Orthopaedic Manual Physiotherapist

After this webinar, you will be familiar with a definition of what a painful cervical radiculopathy is, you will be familiar with the course and prognosis for a patient with a painful cervical radiculopathy and be able to differentiate patients with neck pain and radiating arm pain and their potential other causes. Additionally, you will be familiar with the scope of potentially effective treatment modalities and with the evidence supporting or negating proposed treatment modalities, allowing you to compose an individualised and staged, patient-specific management plan for patients with a painful cervical radiculopathy.

Webinar Details

  • Pre-recorded webinar

  • 1 hour in length

  • Unlimited access after purchase

Presenter

Erik Thoomes

As a Dutch specialized physiotherapist, Erik’s clinical as well as his research interests lie in helping patients manage their spinally related dysfunctions and pain. He has taught both physiotherapy undergraduates as well as post-graduate manipulative physical therapy students, with a special interest in clinical reasoning and motor control dysfunction, and he still teaches CPD courses nationally and internationally. He has published over 20 manuscripts on patients with neck pain with a focus on cervical radiculopathy, and in 2024, he completed his PhD on “diagnosis and management of patients with cervical radiculopathy” at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of two chapters on cervical radiculopathy in the book: “The Head and Neck. Theory and Practice”, edited by Prof. Barbara Cagnie and Dr. Roger Kerry. Erik was the conference committee chair of the 2008 IFOMPT conference in Rotterdam and a member of the Executive Committee of IFOMPT from 2008-2016.