Advanced Manual Therapy Techniques for the Extremities
Course Description
Feeling like you want to add more, and unique, skills to your tool belt for treating your extremity patients? This course teaches techniques that are for the everyday and difficult extremity patients who don't respond well to normal treatments. Through it, you'll learn really cool joint mobilizations and myofascial release techniques, along with retraining exercises that will help your patients maintain the improvements that you gain in the clinic. These are the “clinical pearls” that Patrick has learned over the years and have helped him get patients better when nothing else worked.
As with all of our manual therapy courses, 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.
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Course Objectives
At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:
- Correctly and independently state the anatomy and physiology behind a joint cavitation
- Correctly and independently identify and palpate 5 specific joint dysfunctions
- Correctly and independently identify and palpate 5 specific myofascial dysfunctions
- Correctly and independently perform 5 upper quarter mobilization/MFR techniques
- Correctly and independently perform 5 lower quarter mobilization/MFR techniques
Course Instructors
Ashwin Datt
PT, DPT, CIMT, FAFS, FMR, FGS
Ashwin graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in human movement studies in 2003. He continued to the University of the Pacific to finish his doctoral degree in physical therapy in 2007. Ashwin's primary focus is outpatient orthopedic and rehabilitative physical therapy, specializing in the treatment of a wide variety of injuries, surgeries and pathologies. He emphasizes a whole-body approach when treating patients. Ashwin started his Great Lake Seminars journey in 2008 and achieved his certification in Integrated Manual Therapy (CIMT) in 2010. Since then, he has assisted many courses for GLS and is excited for his role as a lead instructor. When he is not in the clinic, Ashwin enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, surfing, snowboarding, golfing, gardening and being outside.
Course Outline
Saturday
Doors Open
Lecture: Introduction, Overview of Mobilizations and MFR
Lecture: Key Concepts – Upper Extremity
Lecture: Key Concepts – Lower Extremity
Lunch (on your own)
Lab – Shoulder Girdle Complex
Lab – Elbow, Wrist
Review Questions, Self-Assessment, Case Studies
Adjourn
Sunday
Doors Open
Review Questions
Lab - Hip
Lab - Knee
Lunch (on your own)
Lab – Foot/Ankle
Review/Critique of Skill in Techniques in Each Area
Adjourn
