Description

This PT Ed talk overviews the Time Management Matrix to provide a framework to better prioritize and manage your day. This Matrix can help any clinician in their professional and personal lives. By improving time management, we can more effectively provide care for your patients, reduce risk for burnout, and re-energize yourself both in and outside of the clinic. Learning Objectives • Consider a new way to think about time management that allows for maximum effectiveness, efficiency and work-life balance. • Use a simple framework to properly categorize you priorities and effectively manage your time. • Begin to create a new time management plan for yourself. spondyloarthritis (axSpA) among non-rheumatology healthcare professionals who are caring for patients with chronic back pain to promote the timely referral of patients. Our ultimate goal is to improve long-term outcomes in axSpA by reducing the time from symptom onset to diagnosis and to provide patients with the benefits of early effective therapy. 

Learning Objectives 

1. Develop an awareness of axSpA as treatable cause of back pain,
2. Recognize an inflammatory back pain pattern as a typical presentation of axSpA, 
3. Identify other common clinical features of axSpA that occur outside the spine, 
4. Gain knowledge of basic principles of diagnosis and treatment of axSpA as applied by rheumatologists.
5. Understand appropriate testing for a patient with chronic back pain suspected of axSpA and apply criteria for referral to rheumatology