Clinician Training

Are you a health care provider interested in offering GLA:D Back at your clinic? Read here to learn more about our upcoming Clinician Training courses.

When is the next GLA:D Back Clinician Training?

The next GLA:D Back training sessions for clinicians are scheduled for...

March 7-8, 2026

Please confirm your eligibility, outlined below. The training is offered virtually via Zoom. Day 1 runs from 8:00am to 3:00pm Mountain Standard Time. Day 2 runs from 8:00am to 12:00pm Mountain Standard Time.

The price for the training course is $580 CDN. Please contact us for group pricing (ex: same site/clinic).

If you have trained with us in the past and wish to attend some or all of an upcoming training weekend, please email us at gladback@ualberta.ca. There may be a discounted fee associated with your attendance depending on the amount of time since your training and the number of GLA:D Back courses you have offered - our team will offer you a quote.

Who is eligible to take the GLA:D Back Clinician Training?

GLA:D Back Clinician Training is appropriate for the following health and exercise professionals who have comprehensive knowledge of exercise prescription and who work with individuals with chronic low back pain / chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Course participants must be eligible to practice in Canada.

Registered Physiotherapists
Registered Chiropractors
Registered Occupational Therapists
Registered Physicians
Registered Nurse / Nurse Practitioner
*Kinesiologists. In Ontario, registration must be with the College Kinesiologists of Ontario. In other provinces, individuals must be registered with their professional association.
*Clinical Exercise Physiologists certified by the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (CSEP-CEP)

*Please note that patients enrolling in a GLA:D Back program led by a Kinesiologist or a Clinician Exercise Physiologist will need to have a low back pain red flag screening / be cleared for exercise by a clinician who's scope of practice allows them to do so. The "screening" clinician does not need to be trained in GLA:D Back.

Health professionals from other disciplines are not currently eligible to take the training course.

If you are eligible based on these criteria, you may register for the course directly! If you have any questions or hesitations, please reach out to our team at gladback@ualberta.ca.

Clinicians outside of Alberta interested in implementing GLA:D Back at a site overseen by it's own Research Ethics Board (i.e. most publicly-funded or university/hospital affiliated sites) will need to apply for and obtain approval from their ethics board to offer GLA:D Back at their site. For more information please reach out to your Research Ethics Board or our team for more information.