This new online course from Jesper Dahl provides a clear framework for understanding patient progression, helping you stay focused on what matters while knowing exactly when to expand your care toward full recovery and optimal function.
Video Introduction
In this quick intro, Jesper gives you a snapshot of what the Stages of Care course is all about
The Big Idea
This seminar presents the basis for the principle that recovery has a sequence.
Let's put words to what you may already be thinking about your patient.
When a patient first presents to the clinic, pointing to a very specific area of pain, it usually feels obvious where your attention should be focused. But what happens when they return and the pain has eased, changed location, or is no longer their main concern?
How do you decide what deserves your attention next?
The Stages of Care framework provides a simple way of thinking about a patient's progression through recovery. It helps you identify the clinical priorities at each stage, allowing you to focus on what matters most while gradually broadening your assessment and rehabilitation to support complete recovery and, where appropriate, optimise long-term function and wellbeing.
The principles themselves are familiar to most clinicians. What this course offers is a clearer framework for deciding what to focus on, why it matters, and when the time is right to move on to the next stage of care.
Whether you're deciding when to include the extremities in a patient's rehabilitation, when to consider viscero-somatic influences, or when strengthening and performance training become appropriate, the Stages of Care framework provides a practical guide to clearer clinical decision-making.
By the end of this course you will be able to
Understand how clinical priorities naturally evolve from acute injury through to optimal function and performance.
Learn why interventions that are appropriate at one stage may be ineffective - or even counterproductive - at another.
Explore how structural healing, regional stability, coordinated movement and functional performance build upon one another.
Develop a clearer framework for choosing assessments, treatments and rehabilitation strategies throughout the recovery process.
See how the Stages of Care model provides a consistent approach regardless of the body region or presenting condition.
This framework underpins many of our clinical courses, including The Core - so much more than Stability and the Core Rehabilitation seminars, where these principles are explored in greater depth through practical assessment and rehabilitation strategies.
Speaker Introduction
Chiropractor, educator and co-founder of The Learning Collective
Jesper Dahl's teaching combines evidence-informed practice with over three decades of clinical experience, helping practitioners develop clearer clinical reasoning and practical rehabilitation strategies that can be applied immediately in practice.
This course attempts to give structure your clinical decision making and progression.