💭” We proved you are able to diagnose sacroiliac joint pain. The spine surgery community didn't want that, and the PT community didn't want to give up their palpation diagnosis.” - Dr. Mark Laslett.

Our guest Dr Mark Laslett, PhD, NZRPS, Dip.MT, Dip.MDT is a New Zealand Board Registered Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Specialist (NZRPS). He was in continuous musculoskeletal clinical practice 1971-April 2024. He is now retired from clinical practice after 53 years of fullt time practice but continues involvement in research & post graduate teaching. He completed doctoral studies at Linköping University, Sweden (2005), based on diagnostic accuracy research with chronic low back patients undergoing interventional spinal diagnostic procedures with the late Dr Charles Aprill MD in New Orleans.

Mark has taught short courses internationally since 1985. Between 1985 and 1998 this was as a senior international instructor for the McKenzie Institute International. He commenced teaching his own upper and lower limb courses internationally in 1993 until 2004. Since then, his teaching has focused on the lumbar spine, pelvis and hip, as well as the general principles of the science of diagnostics. Mark is an honorary life member of the New Zealand Manipulative Physiotherapists Association (NZMPA), Physiotherapy New Zealand, and the Swedish branch of the McKenzie Institute. Mark was the first physiotherapist in New Zealand to be Physiotherapy Board registered as a clinical specialist (musculoskeletal) in 2014.

📚You will learn about:

▪️ Mark's story and career

▪️ Diagnosis of the lumbopelvic spine

▪️ Classification of the lumbopelvic spine

▪️ Management of acute and chronic pain

▪️Advice to clinicians that are starting their careers

▪️How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎 Dr. Mark’s resources of information:

1. Laslett, M. Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy: The Upper Limb. 1996

2. Back Pain: Diagnosis & Management Beyond Guidelines by Mark Laslett https://www.amazon.com/Back-Pain-Diagnosis-Management-Guidelines-ebook/dp/B0CW1HRRJ5

3. https://learning.physioacademy.co.nz/

4. Twitter: @chadcookpt @Retlouping

5. Podcast: ⁠https://www.physiotutors.com/podcast/ ⁠

6. Pubmed

7. ResearchGate

   
   

📲 Dr. Mark’s contact information:

🐦Twitter @marklaslett_NZ⁠ @SMS_Courses

📱Facebook: southern MSK seminars⁠

📸Instagram: Musculoskeletal.courses

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