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About the event
In response to the opioid toxicity death toll, the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) and the Ontario Chiropractic Association (OCA) developed an online course to help practitioners safeguard patients’ health and foster collaboration with prescribing professionals in managing, reducing, or eliminating opioid dependency.
Chronic pain often requires multiple approaches. Recognizing the high-contact role that chiropractors and other manual therapists may have with chronic pain patients, this continuing education course is a guide to identifying and managing issues through collaborative relationships with other health care providers and patient dialogue.
Using 3D character animation, the course illustrates identifiable patterns and suggests optimal scenarios in engaging patients and their health care providers. It supports the significant conversations between patients and their providers that lead to optimal outcomes.
“This course provides the most current information about opioids and tools to recognize and address suspected opioid intoxication and misuse,” says Dr. Cuong Ngo-Minh, course co-author…