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.
Self Treatment Schedule
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
Kevin Decker
PT, DPT, CIMT
Kevin earned his bachelor’s degree in Allied Health Sciences from Grand Valley State University and went on to earn his doctorate in physical therapy from GVSU in 2014. Kevin has been working for Probility Physical Therapy since graduating treating a variety of orthopedic and neurological conditions. Kevin has also achieved his Certified Integrated Manual Therapist (CIMT) certification through Great Lakes Seminars and consistent with GLS philosophy, he uses a “test, treat, re-test” focus to determine the driver of the patient’s condition/ pathology allowing the patient to return to peak function and quality of life.
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