84- Directional Preference Mediating Spasticity - with Annie O’Connor

Jan 14, 2023

💭 “Some of the most well-known researchers in spasticity right now have come to conclude that peripheral mechanisms may be mediating the actual symptoms.`` - Annie O’Connor

👉🏻Our guest is Annie O’Connor, PT, OCS, Cert. MDT. She is the Founder and CEO of World of Hurt, LLC a dedicated consulting, teaching, telehealth, and research company for the application of the Pain Mechanism Classification System into clinical practice. In addition, she is a Physical Therapy Manager for AIM Specialty Health Back Pain Guide Program. She is an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist of the American Physical Therapy Association and has a Certification in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy in the McKenzie Method. She teaches nationally and internationally the World of HURT training courses, a six-course training series designed for the interdisciplinary application of the PMCS into clinical practice. She lectures nationally and internationally on pain mechanism classification and intervention, neurodynamic evaluation, and treatment, mechanical diagnosis and therapy of the spine and extremities, kinetic chain evaluation, functional manual therapy, and exercise prescription. She continues to treat orthopedic, and neurological patients, and canines with pain and spasticity to achieve the best life possible through her Chicago-based private practice.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Annie's story and career

▪️ PMCS (pain mechanism classification system)

▪️ MDT in the neurologically impaired person

▪️ Can spasticity and hypertonia be mediated by the peripheral nervous system?

▪️ Are musculoskeletal therapists suited to treat neurological patients?

▪️ Advice to clinicians wanting to expand their practices

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Annie's favorite resource of information:

1-⁠Melissa C. Kolski⁠; ⁠Annie O'Connor⁠. A World of Hurt: A Guide to Classifying Pain. 2015.

📲Annie’s contact information:

Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠