Comprehensive Treatment of the Knee

Instructors

Primary Instructor

Scott Braje, PT, MPT, CIMT, CSCS
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Course Description

This class will show you an entirely different way to treat the knee. It focuses on a manual therapy approach to treatment of knee dysfunction, including joint mobilizations, meniscal mobilizations and myofascial / soft tissue releases. Multiple taping techniques are shown for dysfunctions at the patella and the tibio-femoral joints. You will also learn how dysfunctions above and below the knee can cause symptoms at the knee joint itself. It gives a clinician tools to treat knee pain in ways they have never seen before.

As with all of our manual therapy courses, this seminar will follow a progression of principles and reinforce them throughout the 16 hours, is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give the clinician hands-on skills they use immediately upon their return to the clinical setting.

Course Schedule

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Course Objectives

At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:

Understand the rationale for each of the knee treatment concepts: joint mobilization, MFR, taping, strengthening/balance re-education and orthotic therapy
Understand and be able to demonstrate proper technique for joint mobilizations, MFR, taping, strengthening/balance re-education and orthotic therapy
Understand the knee anatomy and its application to the joint mechanics, movement, and dysfunction
Understand and demonstrate, through a holistic approach, how the knee complex treatment progression occurs

Course Outline

Saturday
8:00am	Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:30am	Lecture: Introduction, Overview of Anatomy, Biomechanics, Mobilizations, Fascia, and Taping
10:00am	Break
10:15am	Lecture: Meniscal Movements, Length-Tension Relationship Discussion, Infrapatellar Fat Pads, Functional Analysis of the Lower Extremity
12:00pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm	Lab: Assessment and Palpation of the Knee Complex
2:30pm	Break
2:45pm	Lab: Joint Mobilizations: Patella-Femoral, Tibio-Femoral, Proximal and Distal Tib-Fib, Talo-Crual, and Meniscal Mobilizations
4:30pm	Review
5:00pm	Adjourn

Sunday
7:30am	Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am	Review and Discussion of Pull Pain versus Pinch Pain (handout)
8:30am	Lab: Speed mobilizations
9:00am	Lab: Mobilizations and MET for the Pelvis
10:30am	Break
10:45am	Lab: MFR
11:45am	Lab: Taping: Patella
12:00pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm	Lab: Taping: Patella (cont’d) Counterforce Bracing, Fat Pad Lifting, Proximal and Distal Tib-Fib, Modified Low-Dye
3:00pm	Case Studies
3:45pm	Lab: Case Studies, Speed Mobilizations
4:45pm	Review
5:00pm	Adjourn

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