SADA Free State Branch CPD & Games Day – 22 Feb 2025 (FS035)

Date: 22 Feb 2025

Venue: Picklers Park, Pickelball, 12 Chris Oliver Rd, Groenvlei, Bloemfontein

07:30 Registration

08:00 Pickle Game Starts

11:00 Ergonomics and posture: Advise and education for dentists by Mikal Pelser & Nathalie Browers-Theys from Anna Physios

• Introduction: Prevalence of neck and back pain in dentists
• Alignment/Core muscles- coughing example, lifting arm up example, balloon
• Sitting postures
• Standing postures: just standing, while bent over
• Pacing/Pause breaks
• Anchor for movement in sitting and standing
• Pause exercises in pause breaks- Giving your body the opposite of what it gets!
• Breathing exercise

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Meeting closes

1 Clinical CPD point