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City: Online, Online  Dates: Nov 1 – 2, 2025
Type: Masterclass: Management of Radicular Syndrome Course #: CA25MB001
Instructor: Hans van Helvoirt
PT, MT, Dip. MDT 		Course Cost: $500.00
$450.00 – PLUS Plan Fee
$450.00 – PRO Plan Fee
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McKenzie Institute Canada
Online
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Cosponsor: Aileen Conway
McKenzie Institute Canada

Schedule and Other Important Information

This course will be instructed by Hans Van Helvoirt, Dip. MDT (MI Netherlands) and facilitated by Fiona MacKenzie, Dip. MDT (MI Canada).

Participants must have completed Part C or higher of the McKenzie Institute Credentialling Program. Participants should be familiar with the MDT assessment forms and terminology.

This 2-day course presents the theory and application of Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy as applied in the examination and treatment of patients with spinal and/or related radicular symptoms. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation and management of lumbar and cervical radiculopathies.

The pathologies that can lead to radiculopathy will be described and the clinical elements of each discussed. The role of injections and surgery will be discussed, including the role of MDT in postoperative management. The differential diagnosis of other causes of symptoms in the limbs will be explored.

Material will be presented through a mix of oral presentations, assessment presentations, case study analysis and group problem solving. Clinicians who have some experience in the application of MDT in the context of spinal pathologies, will find this course particularly interesting and challenging.

Schedule:
The times posted below are in Eastern Time. Please adjust accordingly for your local time zone.
Pre-Session Prep (Due prior to session 1)
Session 1 online, 01NOV (SAT) 8.00am-3.30pm ET
Session 2 online, 02nov (SUN) 8.00am-3.30pm ET

Course Status: Pending Confirmation

Course Objectives
Through active participation in the training, participants will develop their ability to:
1. Describe the natural history of degenerative changes involving the spine and their relationship to the pathology of the nerve root.
2. Discuss the natural history of spinal disorders and the role of conservative treatment and surgical treatment.
3. Compare and contrast the signs and symptoms of somatic pain referred to the limb, from that arising from the involvement of a nerve root.
4. Identify patients with radicular symptoms that will respond to MDT management and set up an individualized management program.
5. Identify patients with radicular symptoms who do not respond to MDT and who require further medical investigations, interventions and / or surgical evaluations.

Instructor: Hans van Helvoirt
Hans van Helvoirt is a physiotherapist, graduated in 1986 from the international academy 'Thim van der Laan' in Utrecht. He also obtained his manual therapy license 'Maitland Concept' in 1990 and graduated in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) McKenzie in 1992 in Wellington New Zealand. In addition to other professional courses (Butler, Mulligan, Elvey, Comerfort, O' Sullivan) he completed a Masters in Arts in Psychology at the University Benelux in Antwerp and various coaching courses such as provocative coaching, 'inspiring coaching' and 'motivational interviewing'. Since 1993 Hans has taught McKenzie courses in the Benelux, Europe, Russia, Canada, Iran and Brazil and has spoken at various international conferences on MDT and the place of MDT within the bio psychosocial context.

Hans works as a consultant at Rugpoli Brabant, in Tilburg, a center for manual medicine and anesthesiology. He also does scientific research in collaboration with VU Amsterdam concerning the interaction between MDT and Anesthesiology.




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