Advanced Dynamic Anatomy: Bridging the Gap Between Anatomy and Treatment
Course Description
Most PT school programs only teach the actions of muscles. This course teaches each muscle’s function, and how to use anatomy to diagnose your patients better when a problem is due to a muscle dysfunction. You'll also learn how to fix the muscle dysfunctions of hypertonicity and hypotonicity so dysfunctions don’t return, as well as evidence-based treatment for tendinosis and concepts needed for functional retraining of muscles. All these techniques will enable you to direct your patients to a quicker, more successful recovery.
As with all our manual therapy courses, this course is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give the participant skills they can use immediately upon their return to the clinical setting. Participants should have a basic knowledge of anatomy as this is an applied anatomy course.
What people are saying!
Top Takeaways
- Weakness is often due to muscle inhibition. When muscle inhibition is treated correctly, patients regain strength quickly.
- Pain and tenderness are never normal. This course teaches the neurological/anatomical basis for pain and tenderness.
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
- Independently demonstrate how 10 muscle dysfunctions relate to common symptom patterns found within the body
- Correctly and independently state and locate the origin and insertion of each of the muscles covered in the class
- Describe at least 5 functional synergist patterns
- Independently state at least 3 possible drivers of a dysfunction based on clinical presentations
Course Instructors
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
Doors Open
Lecture: Introduction, palpation principles, 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
Doors Open
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