Physician Training in Injection Therapies
Injection courses are open to any healthcare providers who have the scope of practice relevant to the course subject.
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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: TBD, usually in Salem, OR
This course is designed as a first step into the world of therapeutic injection therapy modalities. It provides the proper training essential to perform consistent and high-quality examinations, diagnosis, and maximally comfortable and effective injections.
Specific modalities covered include scar adhesion release, dry needling, and trigger point injections - so you can put your new injection skills into 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 above.
This course is designed as a first step into the world of therapeutic injection therapy modalities. It provides the proper training essential to perform consistent and high-quality examinations, diagnosis, and maximally comfortable and effective injections.
Specific modalities covered include scar adhesion release, dry needling, and trigger point injections - so you can put your new injection skills into 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 above.
Prolotherapy module 1: Lower Extremity
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Next course: TBD
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 physical exams, diagnosis, and prolotherapy injections for the lower extremity (hip, knee, ankle, and foot).
The course includes 4 hours of pre-workshop didactic education on topics such as anatomy, diagnosis, natural history of conditions, care management, and use of image guidance (though our palpation-guidance is our foundational injection approach).
The workshop is entirely hands-on and includes a minimum of 10 hours covering physical exam, palpation, marking and interventional injection techniques for intraarticular, tendon and ligament attachments, and other important pain-generating joint related structures.
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. Put this knowledge to immediate use in your practice and help your patients with chronic joint pain using regenerative injection therapies.
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 above.
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 physical exams, diagnosis, and prolotherapy injections for the lower extremity (hip, knee, ankle, and foot).
The course includes 4 hours of pre-workshop didactic education on topics such as anatomy, diagnosis, natural history of conditions, care management, and use of image guidance (though our palpation-guidance is our foundational injection approach).
The workshop is entirely hands-on and includes a minimum of 10 hours covering physical exam, palpation, marking and interventional injection techniques for intraarticular, tendon and ligament attachments, and other important pain-generating joint related structures.
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. Put this knowledge to immediate use in your practice and help your patients with chronic joint pain using regenerative injection therapies.
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 above.
Prolotherapy module 2: Upper Extremity
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Next course: TBD
As with the lower extremity course, 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 physical exams, diagnosis, and prolotherapy injection for the upper extremity (shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand).
The course includes 4 hours of pre-workshop didactic education on topics such as anatomy, diagnosis, natural history of conditions, care management, and use of image guidance (though our palpation-guidance is our foundational injection approach).
The workshop is entirely hands-on and includes a minimum of 10 hours covering physical exam, palpation, marking and interventional injection techniques for intraarticular, tendon and ligament attachments, and other important pain-generating joint related structures.
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. Put this knowledge to immediate use in your practice and help your patients with chronic joint pain using regenerative injection therapies.
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 above.
As with the lower extremity course, 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 physical exams, diagnosis, and prolotherapy injection for the upper extremity (shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand).
The course includes 4 hours of pre-workshop didactic education on topics such as anatomy, diagnosis, natural history of conditions, care management, and use of image guidance (though our palpation-guidance is our foundational injection approach).
The workshop is entirely hands-on and includes a minimum of 10 hours covering physical exam, palpation, marking and interventional injection techniques for intraarticular, tendon and ligament attachments, and other important pain-generating joint related structures.
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. Put this knowledge to immediate use in your practice and help your patients with chronic joint pain using regenerative injection therapies.
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 above.
Prolotherapy Intensive: Medical Brigade
Get on the wait list for 2025.
This brigade course includes:
The prolotherapy medical brigade is really one-of-a-kind. Students get to deep-dive into prolotherapy and immediately use it on patients - all day, every day - for multiple days in a row (see scenes from last year's brigade below).
It really helps amp up injecting skills in no time, so that your sky-rocketed proficiency can be put into practice the next day back in office.
This brigade course includes:
- One full day in-person (often on-site the day before the patient treatment days begin), preparing for the brigade by practicing all the physical exams, markings, and injection preparation
- Four full days of hands-on practical application of prolotherapy, treating real-world patients with real-world joint pain
- Nine hours of educational lectures to prepare you for all of the above (plus a ton of other resources and handouts)
- Clinical focus: lower and upper extremity prolotherapy (the brigade covers exactly the same course material as the lower and upper extremity workshops, just in a different format with tons more practical time)
- 54 continuing education hours (approved through OBNM)
The prolotherapy medical brigade is really one-of-a-kind. Students get to deep-dive into prolotherapy and immediately use it on patients - all day, every day - for multiple days in a row (see scenes from last year's brigade below).
It really helps amp up injecting skills in no time, so that your sky-rocketed proficiency can be put into practice the next day back in office.
Here's a little video and a few photos from past brigades, to give you a sense of what it's all about...
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Yes, it's all in Spanish, but the first minute or so still gives you a good sense of our brigades.
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Participating in our brigade may be a great fit for you if:
Also, it helps if you love to travel and experience new people, cultures, and food.
Does this sound like the right fit for you?
This is a very expansive field, as any who have started learning and practicing injections can attest to. What might take someone months (or even years) to gain experience with all the various types and locations of extremity prolotherapy, my students are achieving in four (very busy!) days.
We all travel down and meet up with our Mexico-based prolotherapy organization counterparts, then treat the hundreds of patients with chronic joint pain that are delivered to our doorstep. We work as hard as we can, providing prolotherapy to as many patients as we can through the whole duration of our program together.
We work hard, and provide a ton of good for these patients, who usually do not have access to any other care options. Our patients love us.
We are all very tired by the end, but have huge smiles to go along with our tired feet :)
These brigades are open to any licensed provider who can perform prolotherapy (injections to tendon, ligament and intraarticular extremity sites).
The only prerequisite is having basic injection skills knowledge (ex. how to draw up a solution into a syringe, how to give an intramuscular injection, how to follow aseptic technique). Introductory topics such as those are covered in my On Point course, not specifically in any of my prolotherapy courses.
- You have taken some injection courses (such as trigger points, neural therapy, perineural therapy, ozone therapy), you love the injections you have been learning and providing so far, and want to dive into the world of prolotherapy.
- You learned prolotherapy in the past, but it was too brief, or too long ago to remember. Now you'd like to use it in your practice, but you don't remember enough to feel confident in actually providing it in-office. This is a no-shame zone. You are welcome to join us. We start from where you are, and build up your skills from there.
- You have taken previous injection courses, but they were taught in formats with little to no practical, hands-on education, so your priority is getting your kinesthetic skills up to where your academic knowledge is.
- Or maybe you were just not in the right space to really grasp all the material and put it into immediate practice the first time you learned it. I understand that! Prolotherapy is 100% a hands-on, brain-to-hands skill that needs a lot of repetition to master, so if your hands are not providing prolotherapy over and over again... well... it can take a very long time to get good at it if you don't have enough opportunity to practice.
Also, it helps if you love to travel and experience new people, cultures, and food.
Does this sound like the right fit for you?
This is a very expansive field, as any who have started learning and practicing injections can attest to. What might take someone months (or even years) to gain experience with all the various types and locations of extremity prolotherapy, my students are achieving in four (very busy!) days.
We all travel down and meet up with our Mexico-based prolotherapy organization counterparts, then treat the hundreds of patients with chronic joint pain that are delivered to our doorstep. We work as hard as we can, providing prolotherapy to as many patients as we can through the whole duration of our program together.
We work hard, and provide a ton of good for these patients, who usually do not have access to any other care options. Our patients love us.
We are all very tired by the end, but have huge smiles to go along with our tired feet :)
These brigades are open to any licensed provider who can perform prolotherapy (injections to tendon, ligament and intraarticular extremity sites).
The only prerequisite is having basic injection skills knowledge (ex. how to draw up a solution into a syringe, how to give an intramuscular injection, how to follow aseptic technique). Introductory topics such as those are covered in my On Point course, not specifically in any of my prolotherapy courses.
Pelvic Prolotherapy course
Next course: TBD
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.
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.
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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Scenes from past trainings:
Brigade instructors and students, satisfied at a job well done.
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Busy treating patients at a past brigade.
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A local magazine wrote us up after a past brigade session.
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The best way to learn is by doing. Here students are learning ankle anatomy, physical exam, and injection skills to use in practice at the brigade the next day.
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Advanced prolotherapy training workshop in San Diego, 2019
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It's important to schedule a little downtime... don't forget that work-life balance!
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Injection course student testimonials:
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Prior courses include:
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Meet your Instructor
Dr. 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. Dr. Cortal practices in Portland and Salem, Oregon at Reconstructed Wellness Integrative Medicine. In addition to private practice, she an invited speaker for organizations training healthcare professionals in the fields of natural medicine, osteopathic medicine, and regenerative medicine. Dr. Cortal has participated as faculty for numerous injection training courses taught in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Her focus is on training healthcare professionals to be top-notch comprehensive providers of regenerative injection therapies for chronic pain conditions. 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 seeks to expand healthcare access those with medical and financial barriers to accessing care. Her initial training included learning numerous styles of injection therapies, such as prolotherapy and platelet-rich plasma injections. She received her training from Naturopathic Doctors, Osteopathic Doctors, and Medical Doctors from a diverse number of organizations and teaching environments (including the AAOM and the AOAPRM). She now enjoys teaching colleagues best practices by using a comprehensive prolotherapy approach. Dr. Cortal is a member of the American Osteopathic Association of Prolotherapy Regenerative Medicine, and regularly speaks at their annual conferences on such topics as 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. She is also actively involved in professional development of her field through the Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians (currently on their board of directors). And beyond all this, she prioritizes taking time to take care of herself (past surgical history and hypermobility diagnoses mean that she is a patient as well as a provider of these injection therapies), as well as enjoying traveling, and spending quality time with her husband, two rescue dogs, friends and family (preferably while enjoying the outdoors or some good food) from her home base of Salem, Oregon. 
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