Venue: Warwick Hospital Course: Back Pain: What can I do in 10 minutes?
Twilight course 21st July
Satisfaction: What went well for you today? |
Learning quick easy examination technique that I can quickly use. Learning more about Yellow Flags /Waddells | Liked the handouts-make it easier to concentrate when you don’t have to write everything down. Practical examination around 10 min appointment Waddells criteria explanation and practical sessions |
Useful handouts and practical style of skills | Helpful and practical session Good to have lecture broken up by practical skills |
What could have gone better? |
Nil written | Get through the first page in the handout quicker! A little too much dwelling on the management model and too much repetition of it. |
Nil written | Nil Written |
Knowledge and Skills: What do you know now that you didn’t know before? |
As Above; NICE Guidelines | Waddells, sciatica symptoms doesn’t mean nerve entrapment necessarily. |
Waddells signs Yellow Flags | Waddells signs |
Transfer of Skills: What will you do differently in practice? |
Feel more confident in examining and how to manage, when to refer , less need to focus on diagnosis | Sciatic nerve sensitisation test. Assess for Waddells signs I will ask for Red Flag symptoms |
Change my method/style of examination Explain more to patients Refer more appropriately and with more useful info to physios. | Much more confident in assessing lower back pain Good slick, quick examination of back |
Impact: How will your patients be affected by what you have learnt on the course? |
Hopefully have more confidence in my diagnostic/management skills. | Probably wont get so many sick notes! Hopefully my examination time will be hugely reduced and I won’t run so late. |
More slick exam More reassurance | More confidence on my abilities! I’ll be able to spot Red Flag signs and know when to refer and to who |