Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course:
1. Participants will understand the mechanisms by which neural tissue may in itself be a pain source.
2. Participants will describe how neural tissue, when it is a pain source, may cause wide spread effects.
3. Participants will understand neural tissue dynamics.
4. Participants will identify how dysfunction may occur when normal neural tissue dynamics is prevented by pain.
5. Participants will demonstrate physical examination techniques of neural tissue for its dynamic and functional compliance.
6. Participants will identify and/or analyze the roll neural tissue may play in conditions commonly evaluated and treated by physical therapists and manual medicine practitioners. This knowledge will allow for specificity of diagnosis and prevent treatment errors.
7. Participants will apply knowledge of physical treatment techniques directed towards neural tissues.
8. Participants will assess postulations as to the remedial effect of physical treatment techniques of neural tissues.
9. Participants will describe reasoning for caution in implying that neural tissue is the cause of a disorder and in the treatment of neural tissue.
10. Participants will implement differential diagnostic techniques in neuromusculoskeletal disorders.
11. Participants will evaluate neurogenic syndromes as either the cause or the central driver of diagnostic findings.
Program Schedule - (subject to change)
Day One
Time | Topic |
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. | Registration (water. coffee, and light snacks provided) |
8:00 -8:15 a.m. | Introduction to the course, review of patient profiles, and worldwide % of PNS |
8:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Orthodiagnosis Types / Orthopedic Evaluation |
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Term Definition, Compression vs. PNS, and Evaluation Algorithm |
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. | Pathophysiology Research and Causation of PNS |
9:45 – 10:00 a.m. | Subjective Evaluation |
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Break |
10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | Objective Evaluation, DUCK, Posture, and Active Testing |
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | Demo of Active Testing |
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. | Lab on Active Testing |
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch – on your own |
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Review of DUCK, Passive Testing, Using Nerve Position to R/O |
1:30 – 1:45 p.m. | Demo of Passive Testing |
1:45 – 2:45 p.m. | Lab on Passive Testing |
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. | Elvey Video on Passive Testing |
3:00 – 3:15 p.m. | Break |
3:15 – 3:45 p.m. | Neuro Palpation |
3:45 – 4:10 p.m. | Neuro Palpation Demo |
4:10 – 5:00 p.m. | Lab on Neuro Palpation |
5:00 p.m. | End of Day 1 |
Day Two
Time | Topic |
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. | Sign-in (water. coffee, and light snacks provided) |
8:00 -8:15 a.m. | Review of DUCK |
8:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Tender Points/Specific Signs of Local Dysfunction |
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Demo Trigger Point or Tender Point Palpation/Specific Signs of Local Dysfunction |
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. | Lab on Trigger Point or Tender Point Palpation/Specific Signs of Local Dysfunction |
9:45 – 10:15 a.m. | Putting it altogether |
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Break |
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Ortho and Sports Med Patient Presentation |
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Treatment |
11:30 – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch – on your own |
12:30 – 12:45 p.m. | Treatment Demonstration |
12:45 – 1:45 p.m. | Treatment Lab |
1:45 – 2:00 p.m. | Patient Selft Treatment, Home Program, Deprovocation/Desensitization |
2:00 – 2:15 p.m. | Demo Home Program |
2:15 – 3:15 p.m. | Lab on Home Program |
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Break |
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Treatment Sequencing |
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. | Further Consideration and Research into Efficacy |
4:00 – 4:45 p.m. | Patient Specificity, Review, etc. |
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. | Post- test |
5:00 p.m. | End of Course |
Instructional Methods Used: Lecture accompanied by PPT presentation, demonstrations and lab practice, review and Q&A.