Milan Headache Symposium 2018

Milan Italy Headache Symposium 4th & 5th May 2018

For Physiotherapists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths and Manual Therapy Doctors who have a special interest in treating Primary Headache

After the success of our 2016 Inaugural Headache Symposium & 2017 Headache Symposium embracing contemporary research and the role of cervical afferents, we invite you to join us ...

Watson Headache Symposium Milan

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Symposium + 1 course of 2 days; Symposium + 2 courses of 2 days; Symposium + 1 course of 3 days; Symposium + 1 course of 2 days + 1 course of 3 days; Pre Symposium Course of 2 days; Post Symposium Course of 2 0r 3 days.

Please Note: You are required to be a manual therapist to attend Dr D Watson's Level 1 or Level 2 CoursesLevel 1 Foundation Course Fully Subcribed, Level 2 Consolidation Course Fully Subscribed. You are not required to be a manual therapist to attend Professor Dr F Benedetti or Dr D Sopler's courses.

Symposium at a Glance

Title: Turning Primary Headache Upside Down

Duration: Two Days

Dates: 4th & 5th May 2018

Registration: Fri (8.30am - 9.00am)

Times: Fri (9.00am - 5.00pm) and Sat (9.00a.m - 5.00pm)

Venue: MELIÁ Hotel, Via Masaccio 19 Milano

Location: Milan, Italy

Airports: Malpensa International Airport & Linate Airport

Registrant Places: Limited

Registration: Open

Scientific Program: Watson Headache® Institute

Orgnaisation: ManualMENTE

Pre & Post Courses: See Below

Symposium Dinner: See Below

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** PLEASE NOTE: You will be directed to ManualMENTE, the Symposium Organiser's site, to register and make payment. If you have not registered for a course or program via the ManualMENTE site previously you will need to create an account first and you will then be able to login and register by just indicating on the buttons your options e.g. Symposium plus Pre Symposium Level 2 Consolidation Course. You can only register one person at a time. **

Scientific Program by Watson Headache® Institute and Organised by ManualMENTE

 

Watson Headache® Institute
  • Watson Headache® Institute, an international educational body based in Adelaide, South Australia. Through this organisation, Dr Dean Watson (PhD) has been educating the pubic and health professionals for 25 years (see more below). On this occasion, the Institute is promoting the Inaugural International Headache Symposium, 'Turning Headache Upside Down' in Milan Italy May 2018. This has included Dean bringing together the Scientific Program along with Platform and Workshop presenters.
  • Watson Headache® Institute educating the public and health professionals in the causative role of upper cervical disorders in headache and migraine.
  • Watson Headache® Institute advocating that a skilled and specific manual therapy approach (Watson Headache® Approach) to examination of the upper cervical spine becomes routine when investigating primary headache conditions.

www.WatsonHeadacheInstitute.com

www.Facebook.com/WatsonHeadacheInstitute

www.twitter.com/WatsonHeadache

 
ManualMENTE
      • ManualMENTE, after more than 10 years of experience in the organization of residential training courses for physiotherapists in manual therapy and neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation, Simone Scaglioni, physiotherapist and teacher in manual therapy, has created this new organization and is expanding with the help of a committed team. All this with the conviction that the best possible investment for a real success in serving their patients is valuable training. Wanting to continue in the direction of contributing to the improvement of the profession, offering colleagues the best training experiences from the international scene. With exceptional experience and a base in Italy (whilst reaching out internationally), the ManualMENTE team are a perfect choice to organise the Symposium.
      • ManualMENTE has offered advanced training courses in neuromusculoskeletal physiotherapy for years, proposing the best from international research.
      • ManualMENTE courses are not simple events, but real experiences giving emotions to leave in a family environment. Always with the utmost professionalism.

www.ManualMente.biz

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 Platform Presenters

Symposium official language is English

During the plenary sessions, there will be simultaneous translation. 
Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti

It is with great pleasure to announce that Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti (MD), the world’s most foremost authority on placebo/nocebo will be presenting at our symposium. Learn More...

Dr Jo Nijs

The combination of Jo’s clinical experience coupled with his impressive research experience is unique and guarantees a relevant and cutting-edge contribution to our symposium. Learn more...

Dr Cherubino Di Lorenzo

Whilst many patients feel their neurologist is only there to suggest a medication approach to headache and migraine, Dr Cherubino Di Lorenzo focesses on a migraine diet. Learn more...

Ms Trina Morris

Trina will share how she could have been easily hijacked by ‘Yellow Flags’, potentially leading to even more disastrous consequences... deepening the crisis her patient was in. Learn more...

Didrik Sopler

Didrik’s presentation will negotiate the myriad of possibilities, enabling effective, up-to-date nutrition advice to help patients minimise the impact of the headache and migraine process. Learn more...

Dr Kerstin Luedtke

Kerstin’s presentation will lead to discussion around how best to educate the medical model on the potential role of upper cervical manual therapy in primary headache. Learn more...

Dr Dean Watson

Dean suggests that cervical afferents are not only responsible for ‘cervicogenic headache’ but a peripheral source of central sensitisation in primary headache conditions. Learn more...

Mr Alessandro Aina

Having presented on many occasions on a range of topics involving diagnosis, treatment and prevention of musculoskeletal problems Alessandro is suitably qualified as a platform presenter. Learn more... 

Dr G Dr Coppola

We are looking forward to this presentation by neurologist, Dr Gianluca Coppola, discussing Brain (supra-spinal), descending mechanisms in primary headache. Learn more...

Workshop Presenters

Symposium official language is English

During the parallel workshop, there will be consecutive/simultaneous translation available.
Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti

Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti

Workshop 1
Theory & Practical

Bringing placebo/nocebo ‘to life': ‘How to make pain a rewarding experience’

Mr Alessandro Aina

Mr Alessandro Aina

Workshop 3
Retraction: Theory & Practical

Retraction Refined: 'The Art of performing Retraction Optimally’

Ms Trina Morris

Ms Trina Morris

Workshop 2
Theory & Practical

‘Face’ of the C2-3 Segment: 'The Art (& Science) of Assessing the Position of C2'

Dr Dean Watson

Dr Dean Watson 

Workshop 4
An Excercise in Clinical Reasoning

Un-united Odontoid Fracture: 'Is Passive Mobilisation Contra indicated?' 

Pre-Symposium Courses

Symposium official language is English

The pre-symposium courses will be presented in English.

Pre-Symposium Course Presenters

Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti

Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti

Language: English
Prof Dr F Benedetti Course

Placebo, Nocebo and Therapist/Patient Relationship:

New Perspective from Recent Neuroscience Findings

Registration Open

Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti is a Medical Doctor, Clinician and Researcher

 

Dr Dean Watson

Dr Dean Watson 

Language: English
Dr Dean Watson Course

Role of Cervical Afferents in Primary Headache - OK ... What Next?

Level 2 Consolidation Course (Pre-Requisite Level 1 Foundation)

Maximum: 12 Participants Fully Subscribed

 Dr Dean Watson PhD is a Clinician and Educationalist

Post-Symposium Courses

Symposium official language is English

The post-symposium courses will be presented in English.

Post-Symposium Course Presenters

Didrik Sopler

Dr Didrik Sopler

Language: English with Italian translation
Didrik Sopler Course

Nutrition & Inflammation

Inflammation is not simply a hot swollen joint

Registration Open

Dr Didrik Sopler PhD, a Clinician specialising in nutrition to prevent  disease 

 

Dr Dean Watson

Dr Dean Watson 

Language: English
Dr Dean Watson Course

Role of Cervical Afferents in Primary Headache

Level 1 Foundation Course

Maximum: 15 Participants Fully Subscribed

Dr Dean Watson PhD is a Clinician and Educationalist

 

Provisional Symposium Scientific Program Milan Italy

Friday 4th May and Saturday 5th May 2018

‘Turning Primary Headache Upside Down’

(the Watson Headache® Institute’s inaugural international headache symposium)

Registration Friday 4th May 8.30 – 9.00 Presentations 9.00 – 13.00

9.00     Dr Dean H Watson - Opening Address

9.15      Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti - ‘Placebo and nocebo: different contexts, different pains'

10.00   Ms Trina Morris - ‘The patient is disadvantaged if their practitioner is hijacked by Yellow Flags.’

10.30   Questions

10.45   Morning Refreshment

11.15    Dr Dean H Watson - ‘Alternating Headache - C2-3 guilty or not?’

12.00  Dr Jo Nijs - ‘Balancing hands-on and hands-off interventions in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain’

12.45   Questions

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Concurrent Workshops 14.00 – 17.30

(Delegates attend all Workshop Sessions – 45 minutes each)

14.00 - 14.45 and 14.45 - 15.30 15.30

Afternoon Refreshments

16.00 – 16.45 and 16.45 – 17.30

Workshop 1

Dr Fabrizio Benedetti - ‘How to Make Pain a Rewarding Experience’ (Theory/Practical)

Workshop 2

Ms Trina Morris assisted by Level 3 Watson Headache® Practitioners ‘C2… the ‘axis’ of headache’. C2 is literally the centre of the (headache) universe. Interpreting and managing C2 correctly is the difference between successful and unsuccessful outcomes.

Workshop 3

Mr Alessandro Aina assisted by Level 3 Watson Headache® Practitioners ‘Retraction Refined: the Art of performing Retraction Optimally’ (Theory/Practical).

Workshop 4

Dr Dean Watson Traumatic Cervical Pain and Headache (in the elderly) ‘Hands on… or, Hands off? ’.

17.30 Friday Close

Symposium Dinner

Saturday Presentations 9.00 – 17.00

9.00     Dr Didrik Sopler - ‘The Relevance of Neurotransmitters and Nutrition in Headache’

9.45     Mr Alessandro Aina - 'Effects of Repeated Cervical Retraction Movements on Sitting Posture and Cervical Range of Movement'

10.30   Questions

10.45   Morning Refreshment

11.15    Dr Dean H Watson - ‘Brainstem Sensitisation in Primary Headache - Cervical Afferents Guilty or Not?’

12.00  Dr Gianluca Coppola - 'Current Neurological Perspectives on  Supra-spinal Mechanisms in Migraine'

12.45 Questions

13.00 Lunch

14.00  Dr Cherubino Di Lorenzo - ‘A Neurologists Approach to a Migraine Diet’

14.45  Dr Kerstin Luedtke - ‘Treating the Upper Cervical Spine in Primary Headache - an Option or Not?’

15.30  Afternoon Refreshment

16.00  Panel Discussion:  Dr Kerstin Luedtke, Dr Gianluca Coppola, Dr Cherubino Di Lorenzo, Dr Didrik Sopler, Dr Jo Nijs, Prof Dr Fabrizio Benedetti, Ms Trina Morris, Ms Pam Reynolds, Dr Dean H Watson

16.45  Dr Dean H Watson - Closing Address

17.00 Close

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Please note that our scientific program may be subject to change without prior notice.

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