F22: Fitness 101 for Dental Professionals: Secrets for Comfort & Career Longevity

Have you tried exercise regimens, personal trainers, physical therapists, chiropractors and massage therapists, but your pain persists?  

In this interactive lecture, a special system of evidence-based exercise, pain therapy, self-treatment and stress management interventions to help dental professionals take control of their own health and extend their careers will be introduced. Attendees will actively participate and discover muscle imbalances to which they are uniquely prone in the profession and how to select corrective therapeutic exercise.  Generic exercise routines that aren’t a problem for the general public (Pilates, yoga, P90X and Crossfit) can throw dental team members into the vicious pain cycle and must be modified.  Discover how to release painful accumulated tension in muscles with easy self-treatment strategies.

Educational Objectives:

• Why dental professionals require specific exercise guidelines
• How to develop a customized exercise program specifically for dental professionals
• How to identify generic exercises that can actually create and worsen pain syndromes
• How to incorporate chairside stretching into their workday
• Self-treatment techniques for painful, ischemic muscles and trigger points
• Which pain therapies / treatments are most effective, based on the current research
• How to combat the detrimental physical effects of stress