Practitioner Course

Bloating. A Guide to Creating an Effective Treatment Plan

Learn to help patients with bloating - the number 1 impact on the quality of life of many of the people you see.
Format

Online Course
1 lessons

Availability

12 Months OR Subscriber Pass

Duration

1 hour total

Presenter

Whitney Baxter

About this course

Bloating is a very common digestive complaint impacting the quality of life of many of the people we see. Many of your patients must be presenting with this symptom because nearly one out of every five people are experiencing bloating at least once a week. They have a feeling of abdominal fullness, tightness, or swelling and often there is visible distention and pain. There are several causes and identifying these is to critical achieving successful resolution.

Dr. Whitney Baxter is a naturopathic doctor specialising in gut health. In this presentation she provides in-depth exploration of the multiple recognised mechanisms behind bloating. Whitney shares the differential diagnoses that need to be considered, and gives us her evidence-based management strategies that she has used on a large number of patients.

Whitney will guide you through the latest research, clinical insights, and practical tools to help you better understand, diagnose, and treat bloating in your patients. She also shows you why it is important to distinguish between functional and organic causes, and how interpret the relevant diagnostic tests for bloating. These enable you to develop personalised treatment plans that address the physiological and the gut-brain interaction factors.
What you receive:
  • A personalised certificate of completion including continuing education hours
  • Clear protocol explanations from some of the world's top practitioners
  • Clinical pearls for improved practice results
  • Access to your audio and video recordings via the App Store
  • A downloadable PDF of the presenter’s slides
  • Links to all referenced research papers and useful clinical handouts
  • Access to the community hub where you can get answers to your questions

From this course you will learn

  • The key definitions and diagnostic criteria for bloating and distention
  • Comprehensive differential diagnoses, including gastrointestinal, endocrine, structural, and functional causes
  • The role of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction in persistent bloating
  • The mechanisms contributing to bloating including: Microbiome imbalances, Impaired gut motility, Abdominophrenic dyssynergia, Pelvic floor dysfunction, Visceral hypersensitivity
  • How to assess and interpret your patient’s blood work and other diagnostic tests
  • Evidence-based treatment approaches: Diet and lifestyle modifications, Herbal, nutritional, and pharmaceutical interventions, Mind-body therapies (e.g., diaphragmatic breathing, meditation), Probiotics and antimicrobials

What's in this course

Your Presenter

WHITNEY BAXTER

Dr. Baxter’s journey to naturopathic medicine began after working as an exercise physiologist in cardiac rehabilitation. She witnessed the value of a holistic approach to healthcare and understood that each individual’s physical, mental, and emotional health are interconnected. As a naturopathic doctor, Dr. Whitney graduated with a Kinesiology degree from University of Waterloo, afterwards working as an exercise physiologist in cardiac rehab at St. Mary’s Hospital. 

She completed her Naturopathic Doctor training at Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine in New Westminster, BC. Her clinical focus is on gut health and has worked with the evidence-based naturopathic doctors of The Confident Clinician for over 2 years in their Fellowship program

Dr. Baxter takes people from feeling limited by their bloating and IBS to feeling confident in their body and in control of their digestion. She takes an evidence-based approach to help navigate patient’s symptoms while ruling out other conditions and considering disorders of gut-brain interaction as a culprit
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