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Founder & CEO, Physical Therapist
World of Hurt LLC
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Annie O'Connor, PT, OCS, Cert. MDT is Founder and CEO of a World of Hurt, LLC a dedicated consulting, teaching, telehealth, and research company for the application of Pain Mechanism Classification System (PMCS) into clinical practice. In addition, she is a Physical Therapy Manager for Anthem AIM Specialty Health Back Pain Guide Program. Annie has co-authored 2020, Pain Mechanism Classification Chapter, Rehabilitation of The Spine: A Patient Center Approach 3e, Liebenson C (ed). Wolters Kluwer Philadelphia publisher. She has co-authored 2021 and 2017, Therapeutic Exercise Chapter, Orthopedic Knowledge Update Spine 6 & 5, American Academy for Orthopedic Surgeons publisher. This chapter specifically is dedicated to helping Medical Doctors understand the PMCS and the importance in therapeutic exercise selection. She has co-authored 2015 book “A World of Hurt: A Guide to Classifying Pain” and September 2016 Journal Article in JMMT “Validation of a PMCS in physical therapy practice." She is an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist of the APTA and has a Certification in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy in the McKenzie Method (Cert. MDT). She teaches nationally and internationally the World of HURT training courses, a six course training series designed for interdisciplinary application of the PMCS into clinical practice. She lectures nationally and internationally pain mechanism classification, neurodynamic evaluation and treatment, MDT of the spine and extremities, kinetic chain evaluation, functional manual therapy, and exercise prescription. She was instrumental in establishing the Pain Mechanism Classification System framework for musculoskeletal pain and neurological spasticity at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. She is a member of APTA, the North American Spine Society (NASS) serving on the Exercise Committee, and McKenzie Institute. She continues to treat orthopedic, neurological patients, and canines with pain and spasticity to achieve the best life possible through her Chicago based private practice.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Sunday, November 6, 2022
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
