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painPRO offers a variety of courses for advanced practitioner education. Our courses are designed for all healthcare professionals looking to increase their knowledge and question their beliefs. We follow the evidence…not the dogma.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response…Arthur M. Schlesinger

Past Events

2026

  • Tax & Corporation Info Session: Key Financial Strategies for Self-Employed Practitioners
  • Integrative Pregnancy and Postpartum Care talk
  • The Psychological Effects of Pain and Disability with Raman Sanghera

2025

  • Strength and Conditioning with Dr. Anthony McDougall
  • Office Ergonomics with Shireen Mistry
  • TMJ Manual and exercise therapy approaches
  • Dance Injuries with Dr Tony and Dr Chris
  • Shockwave for Tendonopathies with Paul Kinniston
  • Exercise for the Aging Population with Nicholas Jo & Sharon Leung
  • Concussion Rehabilitation with Shireen Mistry
  • How Did We Get Here? Modern Boundary Management
  • TMJ and Headache with Eric Purves

2024

  • The ICBC Program
  • Preventing Burnout part 1
  • Preventing Burnout part 2
  • Hands on Mentorship with Paul Kinniston - Cervical Spine
  • Shockwave Therapy for Lateral Epicondylitis with Enovis
  • Personal Finances & Tax Strategies with Jackson
  • Multidisciplinary care to Lower back pain
  • How to Build and Maintain a Caseload with Shireen Mistry
  • Hands on skills assessing and treating the shoulder with Paul Kinniston
  • Strength and Conditioning with Dr. Tony McDougall
  • How to avoid criminal complaints with Kevin Westwell
  • What you can do to support your practice with Dr. Micaela Dickhof

2023

  • Introduction to NeuroCatch
  • Don Joy Custom brace fitting
  • Foot and ankle course with Paul Kinniston
  • Kbox with Tony McDougall
  • Concussion Program: Screen, Assess and Treatment with Shireen Mistry
  • Low Back Pain - Evidence informed approach to treatment with Dr. Anthony McDougall
  • Chronic Pain Management for RMTs With Eric Purves RMT
  • Pelvic Pain Interdisciplinary Solutions with Dr. Sandra Hilton, PT, DPT, MS
  • Best practices for assessment, measurement, charting and treatment planning with Eric Purves RMT
  • The Therapeutic Relationship - Rapport Building and Empathy with Jenn Moudahi
  • Subacromial Impingement Syndrome with Paul Kinniston

2022

Sept 18: Concussion Education Part 1- Shireen Mistry KIN
Oct 16: Concussion Education Part 2- Shireen Mistry KIN
Oct 23: Concussion Education Part 3- Shireen Mistry KIN

2021

May 2 & 21: The therapeutic relationship: empathy and rapport building – Jen Moudahi RMT
May 19 & 23: Concussion Education – Shireen Mistry KIN
October 24: LAST Shoulder Course – Robert Libbey RMT

2020

No courses due to Covid 19

2019

January 20: The basics of the shoe and orthotic recommendations, what to use them for, and when to refer.
February 24: Concussion education evening – Shireen Mistry KIN
April 14 & 25: ICBC and research updates – Bodhi Haraldsson RMT
May 24: The Shoulder – Kevin Thorneloe RMT
June 23: The therapeutic relationship: empathy and rapport building – Jen Moudahi RMT

2018

July 17 & 20: ICBC and active rehab – Shireen Mistry KIN
September 9 & 30: K-Box 1st education series – Tony McDougall DC
September 15 & 16: The Clinical Companion to FixYourOwnBack.com – Dr Phillip Schnell
Nov 20 & 27: San Diego Pain conference video viewing – no-cost event

2017

July 30: Pelvic pain – Sandi Hilton PT
October 29: painBC course – Eric Purves RMT

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