Physician Training in Injection Therapies
Injection courses are open to any healthcare providers who have the scope of practice relevant to the course subject.
Sign up to be informed of future training dates.
Pelvic prolotherapy for experienced students is currently open for registration, as well as On Point and Prolotherapy Module 1: Lower Extremity (see below).
On Point - our Introductory course on injection therapies
Learn injections. Help patients in pain. Have a little fun while you're at it.
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Next course: June 2nd, 2023
This course is designed as an introduction to therapeutic injection therapy modalities. It provides the proper training essential to perform consistent and high-quality examinations, diagnosis, and maximally comfortable and effective injections. Injection techniques covered span intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular injections such as scars, dry needling, and trigger point injections. We discuss how the therapeutic goals , procedures, and techniques differ from intravenous treatments.
The course covers anatomy, injection technique, aseptic/ sterile technique, palpation, and includes a minimum of 6 hours of intensive and interactive hands-on learning (one full day in person)– taught by highly trained faculty – that you can put to immediate use in your practice.
Participants learn in a relaxed small group format to maximize individualized attention, and will be provided with ample observed and guided practical time for assessment and injection techniques.
This course is designed to fulfill the current OBNM rules and regulations regarding injection therapy education, and is generally approved for 7 CE hours.
For additional information, provider requirements, and to register, please request further information below.
This course is designed as an introduction to therapeutic injection therapy modalities. It provides the proper training essential to perform consistent and high-quality examinations, diagnosis, and maximally comfortable and effective injections. Injection techniques covered span intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular injections such as scars, dry needling, and trigger point injections. We discuss how the therapeutic goals , procedures, and techniques differ from intravenous treatments.
The course covers anatomy, injection technique, aseptic/ sterile technique, palpation, and includes a minimum of 6 hours of intensive and interactive hands-on learning (one full day in person)– taught by highly trained faculty – that you can put to immediate use in your practice.
Participants learn in a relaxed small group format to maximize individualized attention, and will be provided with ample observed and guided practical time for assessment and injection techniques.
This course is designed to fulfill the current OBNM rules and regulations regarding injection therapy education, and is generally approved for 7 CE hours.
For additional information, provider requirements, and to register, please request further information below.
Prolotherapy module 1: Lower Extremity
This course is designed for those who have prior basic injection experience (such as the On Point course) and want to begin learning prolotherapy techniques. It provides the proper training essential to perform consistent and high-quality examinations, diagnosis, and application of prolotherapy for the lower extremity (hip, knee, ankle, and foot).
The course includes 4 hours of didactic education on topics such as anatomy, diagnosis, natural history of conditions, care management, and use of image guidance. The hands-on portion includes a minimum of 10 instructional hours covering physical exam, palpation, assessment and interventional injection techniques for intraarticular, tendon and ligament attachments, and other important pain generating joint-related structures.
The intensive and interactive hands-on learning is taught by highly trained faculty. You can put this knowledge to immediate use in your practice. Participants learn in a relaxed small group format to maximize individualized attention and will be provided with ample observed and guided practical time for assessment and injection techniques.
This course is designed to fulfill the current OBNM rules and regulations regarding injection therapy education, and is generally approved for 16 hours.
For additional information, provider requirements, and to register, please request further information below.
Prolotherapy module 2: Upper Extremity
This course is designed for those who have prior injection experience (such as the On Point course) and want to begin learning prolotherapy technique. It provides the proper training essential to perform consistent and high-quality examinations, diagnosis, and application of prolotherapy for the upper extremity (shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand).
The course begins with 4 hours of education in anatomy, diagnosis, natural history of conditions, care management, and use of image guidance. Basic knowledge of aseptic/ sterile technique is covered in previous courses. The hands-on portion includes a minimum of 10 instructional hours covering physical exam, palpation, assessment and interventional injection techniques for intraarticular, tendon and ligament attachments, and other important pain generating joint-related structures.
The intensive and interactive hands-on learning is taught by highly trained faculty. You can put this knowledge to immediate use in your practice. Participants learn in a relaxed small group format to maximize individualized attention and will be provided with ample observed and guided practical time for assessment and injection techniques.
Module 1 and 2 can be taken out of sequence, though both require prior injection therapy experience.
This course is designed to fulfill the current OBNM rules and regulations regarding injection therapy education, and is generally approved for 16 hours.
For additional information, provider requirements, and to register, please request further information below.
Pelvic Prolotherapy course
Saturday, March 18th - Sunday, March 19th, 2023
9 am - 5 pm both days
Location: 960 Liberty St SE #210, Salem, OR 97203
CE: 16.75 CE being applied to through the OBNM. This includes 12 hours practical and 4.75 (online) didactic.
Course description
If you have experience with prolotherapy, and want to help patients with pain, weakness, and instability in these locations, then come and join us for my pelvic prolotherapy course.
Zero in on the most common conditions causing your patients pelvic and low back pain, especially following childbirth, injuries, and instability. Learn to fix the common ailments that start with pregnancy, labor, a hard fall on the rear or just as a result of hypermobility.
Learn safe and effective injection treatment for pain, instability, weakness and hypermobility of the pelvic region.
Sites of assessment and treatment include the anterior and posterior pelvic ligament and tendon attachments, including around the sacroiliac joint, pubic symphysis, as well as a little-known use of prolotherapy for diastasis recti.
What does that look like exactly? Well, for those of you fellow visual learners out there, I whipped up a little picture. All the stars are sites that will be covered in this two-day course.
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Learning Objectives
· Learn the most common locations and etiologies of pain, injury, and instability in the pelvic region
· Learn to evaluate these concerns using patient history, physical exam, and imaging when appropriate
· Learn treatment options for these concerns, referral options, and injection therapy options
· Learn how to safely and efficaciously inject joint, ligament, tendon, and other connective tissue pain, injury, and instability conditions
Course outcomes
· Be able to proficiently evaluate sacroiliac pain, injury, and instability and inject locations if appropriate
· Be able to proficiently evaluate pelvic pain, injury, and instability conditions stemming from tendon and ligament pathology and inject locations if appropriate
· Be able to proficiently evaluate diastasis recti and inject sites of pathology if appropriate
· Learn to integrate trigger point injections and perineural injections in with your prolotherapy treatment sessions
Who can attend?
Any provider who has a scope of practice that covers injections to ligaments, tendons, and joints who also fulfills the prerequisite detailed below.
Although I'm a Naturopathic Doctor, and mostly teach other NDs, I do not restrict any of my courses to certain types of providers.
If your ability to perform these injections hinges on practicing under another person's license, then I do require both to attend. I hope everyone can see the obvious legal need to require this.
Oh, and as with all my previous courses, I expect all students to be ok with the idea of not only injecting but being injected as well. As an instructor, I'm not the right fit for those who are vehemently opposed to receiving any injections whatsoever.
Prerequisite:
This is a course for those who have previously received formal prolotherapy training (four days minimum education in combined upper and lower extremities) and have experience using prolotherapy in office.
This is not an introductory course. The recommended amount of experience is six months minimum, having treated dozens of patients clinically using prolotherapy for upper and lower extremity indications.
This class will be limited to only four students, so I am touching base with each one to make sure it is the right fit and the right timing for them to gain the most out of this course.
How do I sign up?
If you are interested in joining us, and have the necessary training and experience in extremity prolotherapy, please sign up for my interest list above. You will then be sent a few emails with the most recent and updated information about my courses. Please respond to one of those emails (which will go directly to me) and write a few sentences about your training (if it was not with me) and your experience. I will then send a registration link if we are a good fit and if there is still room.
What's not included?
Although to be compliant with OBNM rules and regulations as it pertains to sacroiliac joint injections (it is considered part of the spine), this is very specifically not being described as a spinal prolotherapy course. The "stars" above are not going any more superior than the iliolumbar ligaments and iliac crest area (well, except for the diastais recti on the anterior side, but I hope you get what I mean).
This is also not a vaginal injection course. No "O" shots here.
All of our injection sites are external.
For those interested, I refer out to other teaching organizations for both of those types of courses.
What I am looking to bring with this new course is an entirely different way to approach and treat pain in the pelvic region.
After treating hundreds of patients with a myriad of different pelvic pain generators, I saw that often they don't just stop at the the "Hackett points." Yes, I'll cover those, but that's just scratching the surface.
I realized that treating tricky, chronic, complicated lumbosacral/ pelvic pain is a real passion of mine. I would like to share my knowledge and experience that I've gained from all those many injections to help those who are beginning(ish) to intermediate in the prolotherapy field accelerate much faster and not have to put it all together from scratch like I did.
So, I'll be taking a very small group of highly interested and motivated providers with me on this adventure.
Will you be joining us?
· Learn the most common locations and etiologies of pain, injury, and instability in the pelvic region
· Learn to evaluate these concerns using patient history, physical exam, and imaging when appropriate
· Learn treatment options for these concerns, referral options, and injection therapy options
· Learn how to safely and efficaciously inject joint, ligament, tendon, and other connective tissue pain, injury, and instability conditions
Course outcomes
· Be able to proficiently evaluate sacroiliac pain, injury, and instability and inject locations if appropriate
· Be able to proficiently evaluate pelvic pain, injury, and instability conditions stemming from tendon and ligament pathology and inject locations if appropriate
· Be able to proficiently evaluate diastasis recti and inject sites of pathology if appropriate
· Learn to integrate trigger point injections and perineural injections in with your prolotherapy treatment sessions
Who can attend?
Any provider who has a scope of practice that covers injections to ligaments, tendons, and joints who also fulfills the prerequisite detailed below.
Although I'm a Naturopathic Doctor, and mostly teach other NDs, I do not restrict any of my courses to certain types of providers.
If your ability to perform these injections hinges on practicing under another person's license, then I do require both to attend. I hope everyone can see the obvious legal need to require this.
Oh, and as with all my previous courses, I expect all students to be ok with the idea of not only injecting but being injected as well. As an instructor, I'm not the right fit for those who are vehemently opposed to receiving any injections whatsoever.
Prerequisite:
This is a course for those who have previously received formal prolotherapy training (four days minimum education in combined upper and lower extremities) and have experience using prolotherapy in office.
This is not an introductory course. The recommended amount of experience is six months minimum, having treated dozens of patients clinically using prolotherapy for upper and lower extremity indications.
This class will be limited to only four students, so I am touching base with each one to make sure it is the right fit and the right timing for them to gain the most out of this course.
How do I sign up?
If you are interested in joining us, and have the necessary training and experience in extremity prolotherapy, please sign up for my interest list above. You will then be sent a few emails with the most recent and updated information about my courses. Please respond to one of those emails (which will go directly to me) and write a few sentences about your training (if it was not with me) and your experience. I will then send a registration link if we are a good fit and if there is still room.
What's not included?
Although to be compliant with OBNM rules and regulations as it pertains to sacroiliac joint injections (it is considered part of the spine), this is very specifically not being described as a spinal prolotherapy course. The "stars" above are not going any more superior than the iliolumbar ligaments and iliac crest area (well, except for the diastais recti on the anterior side, but I hope you get what I mean).
This is also not a vaginal injection course. No "O" shots here.
All of our injection sites are external.
For those interested, I refer out to other teaching organizations for both of those types of courses.
What I am looking to bring with this new course is an entirely different way to approach and treat pain in the pelvic region.
After treating hundreds of patients with a myriad of different pelvic pain generators, I saw that often they don't just stop at the the "Hackett points." Yes, I'll cover those, but that's just scratching the surface.
I realized that treating tricky, chronic, complicated lumbosacral/ pelvic pain is a real passion of mine. I would like to share my knowledge and experience that I've gained from all those many injections to help those who are beginning(ish) to intermediate in the prolotherapy field accelerate much faster and not have to put it all together from scratch like I did.
So, I'll be taking a very small group of highly interested and motivated providers with me on this adventure.
Will you be joining us?
Learn prolo. Help patients. Have fun.
All courses get access to Prolocraft
Prolocraft is the art and science of optimizing your healing environment for injection therapists.
Learn from Dr. Cortal's clinical expertise through lecture and hands-on experiential education.
Learn from Dr. Cortal's clinical expertise through lecture and hands-on experiential education.
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Prior courses include:
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Scenes from past trainings:
Bonfires in the evening.
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Great company at our Foundations retreat.
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I even fit in a little mushroom hunting.
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Scene from our first beach break during the 2019 Foundations retreat.
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Happy participant testimonial.
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Group Photo | Advanced Prolotherapy Training 2019 | San Diego, CA
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Meet the Instructor: Dr. Angela Cortal
Dr. Cortal graduated with a doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from the National University of Natural Medicine and has been in private practice since 2012. Her practice focuses on Regenerative Injection Therapies and hormonal imbalances, particularly as they impact chronic musculoskeletal disorders. She is board certified in Prolotherapy through the AOAPRM. She has received Prolotherapy and Platelet-Rich Plasma injection training from Naturopathic Doctors, Osteopathic Doctors and Medical Doctors from a diverse number of organizations and teaching environments (including the AAOM and the AOAPRM), and enjoys teaching colleagues best practices in a comprehensive Prolotherapy approach. Dr. Cortal's practices in Portland and Salem, Oregon at Reconstructed Wellness Integrative Medicine. In addition to private practice, she is the best-selling author of Younger Joints Today and is on the board of Santiam Community Health, a 501(c)(3) non-profit which offers reduced cost Prolotherapy through mobile health "pop-up clinics" to those with medical and financial barriers to accessing traditional healthcare services. Dr. Cortal is a member of the American Osteopathic Association of Prolotherapy Regenerative Medicine, and regularly speaks at their annual conferences about using functional medicine to optimize patient response to regenerative injection therapies. She enjoys teaching, writing and speaking to public and professional audiences on Regenerative Injection Therapies and hormonal dysfunction and is also actively involved in professional development of her field through the Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians. |