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Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope

Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope

Accelerate your Growth by Increasing your Scope

Overview

Contemporary healthcare requires clinicians to think beyond traditional, structure-focused models of care. Persistent pain, complex presentations, and long-term health outcomes are influenced by a wide range of factors—including the nervous system, stress, lifestyle behaviors, and patient beliefs.

The Accelerate Your Growth by Increasing Your Scope course track on Embodia is a curated series of introductory, perspective-broadening courses designed to help healthcare professionals expand clinical reasoning while remaining firmly grounded in professional scope of practice.

Rather than offering prescriptive protocols, this series provides foundational knowledge, clinical context, and reflective frameworks that support more comprehensive, patient-centered care.


What This Course Track Offers

This series brings together expert-led courses that explore how broader health influences intersect with musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, rehabilitation, and recovery. Across the track, participants are encouraged to:

  • Broaden clinical perspective beyond biomechanics alone

  • Integrate biopsychosocial and systems-based thinking into care

  • Build confidence addressing complex and persistent presentations

  • Reflect on professional identity, scope, and evolving practice roles

Each course can be taken individually, but together they create a cohesive learning pathway for clinicians seeking growth, clarity, and confidence.

 


Who This Series Is For

This course track is designed for healthcare professionals who want to expand their scope of thinking and clinical reasoning, including:

  • Physiotherapists / Physical Therapists

  • Occupational Therapists

  • Chiropractors

  • Athletic therapists and exercise professionals

  • Clinicians working with persistent or complex MSK pain

It is particularly well suited for clinicians who:

  • Feel limited by traditional MSK models

  • Want to better understand non-structural contributors to pain

  • Are early in their exploration of biopsychosocial, lifestyle, or nervous-system-informed care


Important Notes

  • Courses in this series are introductory and educational in nature

  • Content is designed to broaden understanding, not replace medical or psychological care

  • Emphasis is placed on education, reflection, and scope-appropriate clinical application

  • These courses are ideal entry points before pursuing advanced or specialized training


Why This Matters

Healthcare is evolving—and clinicians are increasingly called to support not just symptom reduction, but long-term health, resilience, and patient engagement. Expanding clinical scope does not mean doing more, but rather thinking differently, asking better questions, and understanding the wider systems influencing health and recovery.

This series supports that evolution.

Courses in this track
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An Introduction to Sleep and Musculoskeletal Pain

An Introduction to Sleep and Musculoskeletal Pain

Carolyn Vandyken, Debbie Patterson
CA$14.99
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Hormones Matter: Considerations for Treating Women with MSK Problems
CA$20.00
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Lifestyle Medicine and Musculoskeletal Health: Broadening your Scope
CA$20.00
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Exercise Prescription Overhaul for MSK Pain

Exercise Prescription Overhaul for MSK Pain

Carolyn Vandyken, Cory Blickenstaff, Teresa Waser
CA$19.99
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Polyvagal Theory, Stress, and MSK Pain

Polyvagal Theory, Stress, and MSK Pain

Carolyn Vandyken, Marlysa Sullivan
CA$20.00
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