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. It 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.

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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

7:30am

Continental breakfast

8:00am

Introduction and pre-test

8:30am

Lecture: Overview of myofascial release, joint mobilizations, muscle energy, and taping techniques

11:00am

Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of cervical spine

12:00pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm

Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of thoracic spine and ribs

3:00pm

Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of lumbar spine, sacrum, pelvis

5:00pm

Review of evidence-based literature

5:30pm

Adjourn

Sunday

7:30am

Continental breakfast

8:00am

Lab: joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of hip, knee, foot/ankle complex

10:00am

Lab: Joint mobilizations and muscle energy techniques of shoulder, elbow, wrist

12:00pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm

Lab: myofascial release (with and without instruments)

4:30pm

Review of evidence-based literature

5:00pm

Adjourn