“This was THE best online course that I have taken.”
On-Site and NEW Virtual Option Offered in Columbus, OH October 11, 2024
24 Hours of Continuing Education for Rehab Professionals:
18 Online + 6 Onsite at OSU-CIH OR Join Virtually on Zoom
Immediate access to online content upon registration and work through the material at your own pace!
THEN…Meet with Dr. Stephanie Live to Confidently Implement aspects of Yoga with your patients
2024 Course Date
Start Online at any time and Join LIVE October 11, 2024
Work directly with an expert who has been integrating yoga for over 15 years!
Instructor: Stephanie Carter Kelley, PT, PhD, OCS and Certified Yoga Teacher
Over the years, Dr. Stephanie has presented at physical therapy state and national conferences on the topics of core muscle function, outcomes research, and utilizing yoga as therapy. Her yoga practice is grounded in current research, functional anatomy and pain science. She has embraced yoga for both her personal and professional practice and wants to help others to bridge the gap between medically-based rehabilitation and ongoing wellness programs for people with chronic pain conditions. Her vision is that every community offers accessible and affordable care for people with chronic low back pain.
Course Format:
Hybrid continuing education designed for health professionals who desire holistic care for people with chronic pain. Yoga can be integrated into clinical practice or offered as wellness classes for people with low back pain. Participants will engage in 18 hours of online lessons and yoga practice videos. Six hours of synchronous live sessions will take place either onsite or via Zoom with Dr. Stephanie to go in depth and get your questions answered.
Ohio PT CE Approval as Hybrid #24S0364 (expires 3/25 so you have time following the workshop to complete the online modules)
Participants’ favorite part of the online course was:
“I LOVE the merging of PT and yoga and the lectures thoroughly explained the logic behind this.”
“mindfulness lessons and meditation practices”
“visual demonstrations and descriptions of the yoga poses”
“ability to learn at my own pace.”
“Dr. Stephanie does an excellent job with correlating yoga practice with the understanding of mind-body integration and alleviating barriers to pain management. She is very easy to talk with during the live sessions.”
Course Description:
Recent research shows that yoga is an effective therapy for treatment and management of physical conditions such as low back pain. This course integrates research on back pain, chronic pain, and meditation with the practice of yoga to engage patients within and beyond the episode of therapy care.
Participants will experience yoga and meditation in the online course. They will also view short lectures on pain science; nervous system reaction to stress; and functional anatomy of the spine and energy systems. Online videos will focus on those components of yoga not typically used in traditional medical care but have been shown to enhance clinical outcomes: breathing, body awareness, and meditation. Live course content and discussions will include strategies of how you can successfully bring yoga into the therapy clinic or confidently refer patients for an ongoing movement practice.
Following the course, participants will have lifetime access to lectures, guided meditations, and yoga videos in order to personalize rehabilitation and wellness programming for their clinical setting.
Approved in Ohio*** for 24 hours of PT and OT Continuing Education.
***Also approved in states that offer reciprocity of Ohio approval. If you are not sure if your state has reciprocity, email info@stephaniecarterkelley.com to find out.
**No yoga experience is necessary. The principles and practices of this course will carry-over into traditional therapy practices.
“As someone who loves yoga and has also struggled w/ LBP, this was honestly my favorite CEU that I have taken.”
Physical Therapist Past Participant
BONUS: You can use the lessons in this program for YOURSELF! If working in the traditional biomedical clinical practice is leading to compassion fatigue and burnout, this approach can help you NOW!
This course will improve care by…
“…teaching mindfulness and being able to articulate the importance of breathing through physical activity and exercise. (The course) also served as reminder to not “skim over” the psychosocial aspects of pain.”
Physical Therapist Past Participant
Global Learning Objectives
1. Understand utilization rates and barriers to nonpharmacologic care of chronic low back pain and how yoga provides an effective, affordable, and accessible option.
2. Develop an effective therapeutic yoga series of classes based on experience as a rehab clinician and integration of current research.
3. Assess holistic health benefits from patient and client participation in therapeutic yoga for chronic low back pain.
4. Engage in laboratory sessions for breathing, guided meditation, gentle practices and progressive yoga poses that target specific needs of people with chronic low back pain.
5. Analyze how aspects of yoga regulate the autonomic nervous system and promote self-management of chronic low back pain.
6. Appraise patient education incorporated into yoga classes that advances understanding of pain neuroscience, autonomic NS regulation, mindfulness, physical activity, and pain psychology.
“This course was a reminder that breathing is important!”
Physical Therapist Assistant past participant
“Dr. Stephanie's ability to simplify complex concepts in both rehab and yoga is very much appreciated. Her teaching will allow me to bring yoga to my patients/students with back pain (osteopenia/osteoporosis) in a straightforward and meaningful way. The anatomy section was wonderful! The high quality of the videos and lessons makes me pleased to be able to recommend this course to patients, friends and family. Thank-You!”
Physical Therapist Past Participant
Course Content:
The course leads participants through Dr. Stephanie’s unique approach that blends Yoga with Rehabilitation: PEACE out of Pain.
Practice Awareness
Educate through Self-Examination
Align Body, Mind and Spirit
Create Core Support
Explore Mobility and put it all together for Empowered Health
Participants experience online lab sessions via Dr. Stephanie’s virtual program for people with low back pain: “Yoga for a Better Back”. The program provides evidence-based self-management strategies for people to care for their own low back pain and each of the 4 modules include progression with:
Mindfulness Lessons
Physical Lessons
Guided Meditations
Short Yoga Practices
Long Yoga Practices
Health professionals, can replicate the lessons and yoga practices one-on-one or in a group setting to enhance clinical practice and expand services into fitness and wellness.
Clinical Lessons:
Each Module includes lessons that explain the rationale and science of the yoga practices for patients. These lessons help the clinician understand “WHY” Yoga blended with rehabilitation has the potential to create sustained and long-term relief of Low Back Pain. Specific learning objectives include:
Understand the impact of chronic low back pain on global health and why it is considered a crisis.
Recognize barriers to and utilization rates of non-pharmacologic care that people with chronic low back pain experience.
Justify yoga as an integrated and holistic health approach that addresses all the factors affecting chronic low back pain: physical, energetic, mental, social, environmental, and spiritual.
Interpret how aspects of a yoga practice translate into treatments for chronic low back pain.
Review yoga teacher/therapist training relative to anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and pathology content.
Compare and contrast the goals of the 8 limbs of yoga to clinical rehabilitation in relation to each aspect of the better back program: awareness, alignment, support and mobility.
Understand the effect of language and yoga philosophy in the creation of a healing environment.
Integrate rehab, pain, and meditation research in the development of a yoga program for people with chronic low back pain.
Distinguish when yoga can be effectively and safely implemented for people who have cLBP.
Assess who should participate in yoga, i.e. what diagnoses, signs, and symptoms are appropriate for group yoga classes.
Predict which clients with chronic low back pain will respond positively to yoga.
Use research to support the creation of safe and effective yoga classes and an ongoing yoga series designed as biopsychosocial treatment progression for people with cLBP.
Formulate pricing, sales and marketing for therapeutic yoga taught by rehabilitation professionals.
Distinguish how yoga for cLBP affects various aspects of pain.
Outline the physical, physiological and functional benefits of yoga on cLBP.
Appraise the psychological and emotional benefits of yoga for people with cLBP.
Examine the social, including reduction of fear and avoidance of movement, and environmental benefits of yoga for people with cLBP.
Interpret the spiritual benefits of yoga for people with cLBP.
Understand the effect of stress on physical and mental health
Apply clinical assessments of stress and stressors to determine the effect of stress on cLBP
Integrate an understanding of autonomic nervous system and Vagus N. regulation of stress into a yoga practice for people with cLBP
Review the effects of chronic stress on body systems
Experience full length yoga class based on the weeks 4-6 in the “Back to Health” program used in the research to compare yoga to physical therapy for people with chronic low back pain (Saper, 2017).
Understand the categories of therapeutic exercise and how yoga with the goal of neurological re-education fits into these categories.
Describe case examples of communication and goal setting using yoga as a therapeutic intervention
Describe how yoga incorporates pain science intervention strategies (GMI, GRX, CFT, Mindfulness) into classes and patient education
Review the guiding principles of movement, activity and/or exercise prescription for people with chronic pain.