Name: Working Posture for the Dental Office
Start: 2025-02-12T11:33:31+13:00
End: 2025-02-12T11:33:31+13:00
Location: Working Posture for the Dental Office

There is no doubt that Dentistry is a very challenging profession. We work sitting down all day, in a confined space in a physically demanding position. Often its an emotionally charged environment and with people who for the most part, would like to be somewhere else. It is a recipe for STRESS!! Most of us have never been taught how to sit well and we often end up either tired, in pain or “crippled” at the end of our day. Dr Jones developed her WorkingPosture course, specifically for all members of the Dental team. While working in Endodontics for over 25 year she knows what problems the team experience. As a 4 year trained Feldenkrais Teacher for over 23 years she has found successful innovative techniques to not only undo the damage already done, but has created a successful program to prevent work related injuries in the first place.

Learning outcomes

By addressing our bad postural habits this Program WorkingPosture can not only reverse some of the damage already done in the dental office but can prevent getting into trouble in the first place. It also has the added advantage of creating flexibility to improve your sports and fitness activities too. In general come back to enjoying your body and grow old gracefully. This workshop is very very easy and relaxed and effective. Course objectives - Recognise the neuromuscular basis for work injury, pain and discomfort specific to the Dental Office and demonstrate how to reverse and prevent this damage. Identify and in a practical way dismantle your own particular unique patterns of holding tension. - Reawaken your bodily wisdom (proprioception), something that stress has diminished in us and that has been scientifically demonstrated to be a key imperative in recovering from chronic pain and dysfunction. - Activate new easy patterns of sitting, turning etc using spiral patterns that have been shown to be functionally more efficient and natural. Very easily create new good habits of movement and balance as you work

Speaker

Dr Penelope Jones BDS, MAFG, MIFG. Dental Surgeon and Feldenkrais Teacher

Dr Penelope Jones graduated from Sydney University Dental School and after having been in General Practice in Sydney and London for some years she went on to practice in a specialist Endodontic Practice in Sydney for over 25 years. In the early days of practicing Dentistry she experienced serious ongoing pain herself almost to the point of having to retire In 1992 she completed 4 years of training at La Trobe University’s Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences in Melbourne to study human development , human movement and neuroplasticity and became a (Certified) Feldenkrais Practitioner and Teacher In the mid 1990s Dr Jones began teaching various workshops for the Dental Faculty’s Continuing Education. She taught “Back and Body Care”, “the Well Balanced Dentist”, “Are you Fit to Sit” and others She also began teaching undergraduates at the school as well. In 2001 after a serious car accident Dr Jones had to give up practice and taught basic sciences for some years in the Medical and Dental Faculties of Sydney University. She also used her WorkingPosture and Feldenkrais skills to rehabilitate serious neurologic and chronic pain issues from the accident.