Teaching Self Treatment: Empowering Your Patients to Maximize their Outcomes
Course Description
This course was designed to give the clinician the knowledge and skills needed to instruct their patients in self-joint mobilizations and self-soft tissue mobilizations (instrument and non-instrument assisted) that the patient can use at home. This will reinforce the results of your exercise and manual treatment with the patient in the clinic to improve carry-over between sessions and overall patient outcomes. This course is at least 75% hands-on lab and will give the clinician skills they can use immediately when they return to the clinic setting. This a lab-based course and students will attain a set of tools to use with confidence on Monday morning.
No current scheduled courses for 2020
Course Objectives
At the completion of the seminar, the participant will be able to:
- Accurately state the general concepts of myofascial release, joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques
- Accurately describe normal and abnormal spine joint mechanics
- Accurately state 2 characteristics of type 1 and type 2 dysfunctions
- Correctly demonstrate 6 self-joint mobilization techniques to the areas covered in the manual
- Correctly demonstrate 6 self-myofascial release techniques (with and without instruments) to the areas covered in the manual
Course Instructors
Patrick Hoban
PT, MS, ATC, FF-CIMT
Patrick has been a Physical Therapist and Athletic Trainer since 1994. He graduated from Grand Valley State University and started Great Lakes Seminars in 1996. He is the co-owner and Clinical Director for Great Lakes Seminars and is also the president of Probility Physical Therapy. Probility is a company which has 13 clinics in the Southeast, MI area. He has created the manual therapy courses for Great Lakes Seminars and has trained the instructors to ensure high quality courses and effective, consistent delivery. He has also taught manual therapy courses around the country for 20 years, has taught in PT and PTA programs since 1994, was the head athletic trainer at a high school for 5 years and he has performed both independent medical exams and peer reviews for Physical Therapy. He has an eclectic background in biomechanics, anatomy, and manual therapy.
Course Outline
Saturday
Continental Breakfast
Introduction, pre-test
Lecture: Overview of myofascial release, joint mobilizations, muscle energy, and taping techniques
Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of cervical spine
Lunch (on your own)
Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of thoracic spine, ribs
Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of lumbar spine, sacrum, pelvis
Review of Evidence-Based Literature
Adjourn
Sunday
Continental Breakfast
Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of hip, knee, foot/ankle complex
Lab: Joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of shoulder, elbow, wrist
Lunch (on your own)
Lab: myofascial release (with and without instruments)
Review of Evidence-Based Literature
Adjourn