Effective Mindfulness Interventions for Rehab: Improving Outcomes with Relaxation, Breath, & Movement Awareness – Ross LaBossiere

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Maximize Clinical Outcomes Utilizing the Mind-Body Connection

Our job as therapists is not only to treat, but to provide tools to support treatment between visits, and to teach preventative maintenance for the future. This recording will equip you with techniques and concepts that significantly improve patient (and therapist) mind-body awareness and its application to movement, therapeutic exercise, passive manual techniques, stress reduction, and pain management. Participate in a variety of mindfulness-based strategies and learn how to integrate them into your already existing treatment plans for neuromuscular re-education, therapeutic exercise, and proprioception techniques, adapting all of these to each individual client. By tapping into your own mind-body awareness, you can help patients break the cycle of stress-related patterns that do not always respond well to standard treatment or exercise, or are interfering with their rehabilitative progress.

1. Define the mind-body connection and explain how to integrate it into the rehabilitative setting
2. Demonstrate relaxation techniques for stress reduction and pain management
3. Develop strategies to cultivate your own mind-body awareness
4. Integrate mindfulness into your existing treatment and exercise protocols
5. Articulate mind/body awareness strategies to improve compliance and outcomes
6. Design awareness-based techniques for adaptive use with a variety of standard therapeutic exercises
7. Discover how mind/body proprioceptive awareness can enhance your manual skills

THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION

• What is mindfulness?
• Define the mind-body connection
• Integration into physical rehabilitation
• Misconceptions about yoga and meditation
• Evidence-based research

RELAXATION THROUGH BREATH AWARENESS

• Relationship between stress, tension, and breath
• Quieting the mind and body
• Developing a relaxed, rhythmic and diaphragmatic breath
• Strategies for clinical integration

THE RELAXATION RESPONSE TO REDUCE MUSCLE TENSION AND PAIN 

• Deeper relaxation via the “body scan” technique
• Improving proprioceptive sensory awareness
• Identifying and releasing tension
• Holding patterns of muscles and breath
• Clinical strategies for pain management
• Applications to passive manual techniques

MOVEMENT AWARENESS TO IMPROVE THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE

• Understand the patient’s pain and apprehension
• Relaxation, posture, and body mechanics
• Basic concepts of myofascial release and the neuromyofascial web

MINDFUL MOVEMENT TO IMPROVE HEP AND SELF-TREATMENT 

• Synchronizing mind, body, and breath
• Difference between stretching and releasing
• Mindful movement routines for the neck and back
• Examples for a variety of standard therapeutic exercises
• Adaptive strategies for difficult patients
• Proprioceptive acupressure/trigger point self-release

IMPROVING COMPLIANCE & OUTCOMES

• Mindfulness in AROM, strength, flexibility, return to activity, and recreation
• Strategies for self-treatment between visits
• Taking the “chore” out of Home Exercise Programs
• Create a supportive space for mind/body integration