AACMA Webinar with Rod Martin: Dealing with veterans - A complex patient cohort
Dealing with Veterans - A Complex Patient Cohort
How to work with a veteran - 500,000 listed Australia wide with huge variety of health conditions.
Veterans often face unique physical, mental, and emotional health challenges resulting from their service. Many veterans experience conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injuries (TBI), chronic pain, and other service-related injuries that require specialized care. Understanding the military culture and experiences that shape a veteran’s perspective can foster better communication, trust, and rapport between health professionals and patients. By being knowledgeable about the specific needs of veterans, healthcare providers can offer more personalized and compassionate care, improve outcomes, and ensure that these patients feel understood and respected in the healthcare setting.
Rod Martin's experience working each and every day with the ex-military population has led to treatment protocols and networking to get results with an extremely complex patient cohort.
- Common conditions seen in clinic: Alcohol, Obesity, Mental health issues incl PTSD, Sleep, IBS and similar, MSK, shoulder neck hip knee lower back, Bruxism, Erectile dysfunction, GORD, Future MTBI
- Health literacy
- Chronic disease
- SOP and patterns (your best friend)
- Common patterns TCM
- Treatment planning, root vs branch, instant results and conversation
- Age factors
- Payment issues MBS, pension etc.
Date: Wednesday 30th April 2025
Location: Online
Time: 7:00-8:00pm (AEST) / 5:00-6:00pm (AWST)
Speaker: Rod Martin
CPD: 1 point (professional issues, practitioner interaction if you attend live)
Fee: Members $25; Student Members FREE; Non Members $50
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Speaker Bio
Rod Martin is an Acupuncturist working in the Northern Suburbs of Brisbane.
Since graduating in 2009 from Endeavour college, Rod has spent his time building a multimodality clinic called GO2 health and for the last 5 years, specifically, the Reforge system of care.
At GO2 health, Rod has built a clinic with 85 staff and practitioners including General practice, Specialists, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychologists, Massage, Acupuncture, Osteopathy and more. The clinic currently services around 1900 patients each week and is growing at a rate of 50 new patients each and every week. We have a base of 8000 private patients and most importantly, over 7000 active contemporary veteran patients, making it the largest DVA treating facility in the country.
Rods experience in Business Management, treating and teaching Gojuryu Karate as a 7th Dan in the Japan Karatedo Federation Gojukai (Japan) gives him a unique insight into how to work with people and how to build a successful practice.
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