Advanced Dynamic Anatomy: Bridging the Gap between Anatomy & Treatment
Course Description
This course will give the clinician the ability to find the cause of muscle weakness and the patient’s pain based on functional anatomy principles. This will enable the clinician to direct their patients to a quicker, more successful recovery. Participants will learn how to palpate all muscles that are responsible for dysfunction, along with the difference between muscle function and action, so they will be able to immediately recognize muscle dysfunction and identify the specific muscle at fault.
Come learn what to do with the muscular system we were never taught in school! This course will change the way you view finding the cause of common orthopedic problems and make treatment easier. Participants should have a basic knowledge of anatomy as this is an applied anatomy course.
As with all of our manual therapy courses, this seminar will follow a progression of principles and reinforce them throughout the 16 hours. This course is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give the clinician skills they can use immediately upon their return to the clinical setting.
Please visit our Resource Center to check for course approval in your state.
Anatomy Schedule
Course Objectives
At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:
- Confidently palpate and correctly differentiate each of the muscles covered in class in the upper extremity, trunk and lower extremity
- Correctly and independently state and locate the origin and insertion of each of the muscles covered in the class
- Independently demonstrate and verbalize how 10 muscle dysfunctions relate to common symptom patterns found within the body
Course Instructors
Michele Nippes
PT, DPT, CIMT
Michele received her undergraduate degree from Eastern Michigan University and her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Oakland University. Michele has participated in a variety of continuing education courses, achieving the specialty of Certified Integrated Manual Therapist. Michele’s approach to therapy includes a focus on manual treatment in conjunction with sport/function specific strengthening. She enjoys working with a variety of patients to help them reach their highest potential, from the high-level athlete to the recreational enthusiast.
Greg Kopp
PT, MPT, OCS, CIMT
Greg graduated with his MPT from Oakland University in 1995. He has guest lectured at Oakland University on ACL/PCL surgeries and rehab, and served as a teaching assistant at Oakland for examination procedures and therapeutic exercise. Greg is currently appointed as a clinical instructor for Oakland University. His treatment approach is eclectic, utilizing Kaltenborn and Paris manual techniques, and muscle energy techniques learned at Great Lakes Seminars. He has used this approach since 1995 working in outpatient orthopedic settings with a very diverse patient population, including sports medicine. Greg’s treatment philosophy is to treat the driver of the patient’s condition/pathology, and to teach the patient to manage their own condition. He also has an extensive background in weight training and exercise.
Course Outline
Saturday
Continental Breakfast
Lecture: Introduction, palpation principles, and functional anatomy principles, differentiation between muscle action and function
Lecture: Etiology of muscle strain/injury, functional synergies
Lunch (on your own)
Lab: Palpation/functional anatomy of upper extremity
Lab: Speed palpation for upper extremity
Lab: Case studies for upper extremity
Review of evidence-based literature for today’s topics
Adjourn
Sunday
Continental Breakfast
Review
Lab: Palpation/functional anatomy of neck and trunk
Lab: Palpation/functional anatomy of lower extremity
Lunch (on your own)
Lab: Palpation/functional anatomy of lower extremity - con't
Lab: Speed palpations for neck, trunk and lower extremity
Lab: Case studies for neck, trunk and lower extremity
Review of evidence-based literature for today’s topics
Adjourn
