Chiropractic and Pain Management: A Multidiscipline Approach

Recorded On: 01/27/2024

This course is designed to teach attendees about common conditions that may require a referral for interventional pain management, including how the conditions present to the office, what they look like on MRI, and how referrals should be made. The most common types of interventional pain management procedures will be discussed (what the procedures are, what conditions they treat, what medications are used, why some medications are preferred over others, and what outcomes are expected). Attendees will gain an increased ability to recognize pathology on MRI, increased ability to discuss these findings with patients and professionals and request consultations with pain physicians, increased ability to discuss pain management procedures with patients, and understand the mechanism and benefit of these procedures.

Upon completion of this presentation, learners should be able to:

Recognize the most common types of interventional pain management procedures.
Explain how to work in harmony with pain management physicians and spine surgeons.
Discuss how to communicate in an educated manner with other medical spine specialists.

Robert McKnight, DC, DIANM

Robert McKnight, DC, DIANM, serves as the president of the ACA Council on Chiropractic Orthopedics. He is the clinic director at Advanced Spine & Rehabilitation of Utah LLC, a multispecialty spine care center consisting of chiropractic orthopedists and medical physicians. Dr. McKnight is a board-certified chiropractic orthopedist and has been in practice for 20 years. He is also an instructor for the University of Bridgeport. Dr. McKnight has well over 10,000 hours of direct clinical training with chiropractic orthopedists, pain management physicians, family medicine doctors, and orthopedic spine surgeons. He has assisted with thousands of interventional pain management procedures and spine surgeries. Dr. McKnight is certified in regenerative medicine. He has served as the team chiropractor for professional football and baseball teams, athletes in the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association, professional dancers, and Broadway performers.