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Cadaver workshops give you real, in-depth, guided hands-on experience on whole cadavers.

Combined with the Prolotherapy: Getting to the Point modules, these master-level courses are the answer to how you can get started developing the three fundamental skills that make up the “how’s” of musculoskeletal medicine—landmark identification, needle handling and hitting the target. This course is appropriate for anyone who has a license to inject.

Get your practice in the lab, on whole cadavers, with the most experienced instructors in the world. Our 2 ½ day cadaver workshop:

  • Gives you extensive, hands-on experience with experienced and knowledgeable instructors;
  • Enables you to work on whole cadavers. Many workshops offer sessions with disarticulated body parts. Our workshops use only whole cadavers, giving you the big picture, and enabling you to work on multiple parts of the body;
  • Provides you lots of time to work with the needle, supported by fluoroscope images and direct feedback;
  • Includes your lodging and meals.

By the time you’ve completed the workshop, you will be ready to successfully treat patients in your office with confidence and precision.

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PREREQUISITES

This masterclass is designed for professionals who understand the anatomy, history-taking, physical exam, and diagnosis of ligamentous injuries. Prerequisite: at least one completed course with assessment, or admittance by Dr. Tom Ravin

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Cost and Schedule

Cadaver workshops give you real, in-depth, guided experience. These courses are the answer to how you can get started developing the three fundamental skills that make up the “how’s” of musculoskeletal medicine—landmark identification, needle handling and hitting the target.

The 2 ½-day course costs $5,000, and includes: (late registration price: $6,000)

  • Extensive, hands-on experience with experienced and knowledgeable instructors;
  • Work on whole cadavers. Many workshops offer sessions with disarticulated body parts. Our workshops use only whole cadavers, giving you the big picture, and enabling you to work on multiple parts of the body;
  • Lots of time to work with the needle, supported by fluoroscope images and direct feedback;
  • Lodging and all meals Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday through lunch.

By the time you’ve completed the workshop, you will be ready to successfully treat patients in your office with confidence and precision.

The Ravin Method Course

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Course Schedule

Thursday, September 20

  • 8:00 – 8:30 Personal Introductions, Introduction to the Cadaver Lab, Radiation Safety
  • 8:45 – 10:30 Getting used to working with long needles 3 1/2” to 8” and introduction to sacroiliac joint injections and landmark identification
  • 10:30 – 11:00 Snack break
  • 11:00 – 12:30 Sacroiliac Joint injections practice
  • 12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
  • 2:00 – 3:15 Group A: Posterior Hip injections | Group B: Posterior Shoulder injections
  • 3:15 – 3:45 Snack break
  • 3:45 – 5:00 Group B: Posterior Hip injections  | Group A: Posterior Shoulder injections

Friday, September 21

  • 8:00 – 10:00 Groups A & B: Posterior Knee – Posterior Cruciate(PCL) and Posterior Lateral Corner(PLC), Lumbar Capsular and Sacroiliac Ligaments injections
  • 9:45 – 10:00 Snack break
  • 10:30 – 12:30 Groups A & B: Anterior Shoulder and Inferior Glenohumeral, Cervical and Thoracic Facet Capsule Ligament Injections
  • 12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
  • 2:00 – 3:15 Groups A & B: Anterior and lateral hip injections, Medial and Lateral Elbow and Forearm Interosseous Membrane
  • 3:15 – 3:45 Snack break
  • 3:45 – 5:15 Groups A & B: Ankle Interosseous Membranes, Foot and Sacrotuberous Ligaments

Dinner for everyone at the Ravin’s house

Saturday, September 22

  • 8:00 – 10:00 Group A: Wrist, Thumb, Finger and TMJ | Group B: Foot Injections of Sinus tarsi, Spring, Long and Short Plantar, transverse metatarsals ligaments
  • 10:00 – 10:30 Snack break
  • 10:30 – 12:30 Group B: Wrist and Thumb Injections | Group A: Foot Injections of Sinus tarsi, Spring, Long and Short Plantar, transverse metatarsals
  • 2:00 – 4:30 Test/Evaluation of skills

This time is for the development of a test for future evaluation of landmark and injection skills. There is no charge for participating in this segment and those who attend can participate or just observe in the project.

I am trying to develop a testing method for this complex subject. I visualize that we would create a list of landmark and target combinations. The person being tested would draw the combination out of a hat and then have about 2 to 3 minutes to draw or mark the landmark and then get the needle to the target on the cadaver.

The result would be recorded with fluoroscopy on an iPad or iPhone picture and timed. There will be no recorded scoring of the experience for this workshop.

TEAM

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THOMAS RAVIN, M.D.

Dr. Tom Ravin has been practicing musculoskeletal medicine and prolotherapy for over 30 years in Denver, Colorado, and has taught these subjects both nationally and internationally since 1990. He is the lead author of Principles of Prolotherapy, the first major textbook on prolotherapy, published in 2008.

His specialty is making the diagnosis of a chronic pain complaint that other health care providers have been unable to make by taking a careful history and doing a joint by joint ligament and tendon assessment.

Dr. Ravin specializes in using prolotherapy and manipulation, nutrition, and hormones to treat chronic musculoskeletal pain.

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MARC N. DUBICK, M.D.

Dr. Marc Dubick is a board certified Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Management physician. He specializes in the treatment of the muscular and skeletal components of chronic pain. Dr. Dubick has particular expertise in Prolotherapy/Regenerative Injection Therapy, which helps strengthen weakened ligaments and tendons.

His goal is to help his patients become as pain-free as possible, improving their function and normalizing their lifestyle. He graduated in 1975 from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and in 1970 from the University of Maryland School of Dentistry. After practicing Anesthesiology at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington, KY for 17 years, Dr. Dubick gravitated to the field of chronic pain management where he was able to develop a continuity of care with his patients.

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MARY HARROW, D.O.

Since 1998, Dr. Mary Harrow has been a board certified osteopathic family practice physician. After completion of medical school at Ohio University, internship at Mercy Medical Center (UC Davis) and residency at Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation, she settled into a solo integrative medical practice in Colorado Springs. She suffered with chronic pain and began specializing in prolotherapy after receiving rejuvenation with the technique. Active lifestyle with a focus on mental and emotional health are the cornerstones of her life and practice.

She has attended multiple cadaver courses in Denver and participated as an assistant instructor in the last two.  She assisted Dr. Ravin in a cadaver course in Seoul, South Korea that taught advanced injection techniques to 20 doctors, who were the key instructors of the Korean Association of Orthopedic Medicine.

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