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Treatment of Common Extremity Dysfunction Through Mobilization

Instructors

Primary InstructorJeff Garbacz, PT, DPT, CIMT

Jeff Garbacz, PT, DPT, CIMT
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Course Description

Registration ButtonThere are few classes available where you will learn how to treat so many common extremity dysfunctions with so much success. This is a class that will change how you look at common extremity diagnoses and will help you to start treating differently on Monday morning. The focus of the class is using joint mobilization to normalize the stress on the tissues around a joint; immediately decreasing the stress on the tissues and secondary pain that this creates. This will take your understanding of extremity mobilization far beyond what you learned in school.

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 doing joint mobilization and its specific physiological effects
  • Understand and be able to demonstrate correct grading, oscillation techniques and sustained-hold techniques of joint mobilizations
  • Understand the extremity joint surface anatomy and its application to the mechanics of each joint
  • Demonstrate proper extremity mobilization technique, hand placement, and body mechanics

Topics Covered

Overview of surface structure and its effect on mobilization

  • Introduction and review of conservative and aggressive mobilization techniques with emphasis on functional application
  • Introduction and review of dynamic mobilization techniques
  • The shoulder / scapula
  • The elbow
  • The wrist and hand
  • The hip
  • The knee
  • The ankle and foot
  • Application to specific clinical situations

Course Outline

Saturday
7:30am Continental Breakfast
8:00am

Lecture: Introduction, overview of anatomy, biomechanics, mobilizations
10:00am Break
10:15am Lecture: Discussion of hypertonicity vs adaptive shortening, tendinosis vs. tendinitis, muscle weakness vs muscle inhibition
12:00pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm Lab: The shoulder complex mobilizations
2:45pm Break
3:00pm Lab: The shoulder complex mobilizations (cont.)
4:30pm Review
5:00pm Adjourn
Sunday
7:30am Continental Breakfast
8:00am

Lab: Speed mobilizations
8:30am Lab: The elbow complex mobilizations
9:45am Break
10:00am Lab: The wrist/hand complex mobilizations
11:15am Lab: The hip complex mobilizations
12:00pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm Lab: The knee complex mobilizations
2:45pm Break
3:00pm Lab: The foot/ankle complex mobilizations
3:45pm Case studies/speed mobilizations
4:15pm Review
4:30pm Adjourn

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