Does your patient experience pain when shaking hands? In the video below, I demonstrate a technique for the CMC joint that you may find helpful.

 

Topics: manual therapy, manual therapy certification, treating wrist injury, upper extremity

Do you see patients who experience pain when turning their head to the left?  In the manual therapy video below, NAIOMT’s Stacy Soappman demonstrates one way of assessing and treating that pain.

Topics: manual therapy, manual therapy certification, cervical spine techniques, cervical spine course

In the manual therapy video below, NAIOMT’s Stacy Soappman provides a brief review of Sacroiliac Joint assessment and treatment. 

In order to determine if gapping manip of the SI Joint is appropriate for a patient, she performs a standing weight bearing assessment. If the tests are symmetrical and patient presents with the same dysfunction both in standing and in non weight bearing tests, she moves forward with the manipulation. If there's a discrepancy between the two components of the test, she does not use manipulation, but instead employs another approach such as soft tissue, exercise or needling to help with the neuromuscular balance component.

Topics: manual therapy, manual therapy certification, treating lumbar spine, lumbopelvic spine, lumbopelvic spine courses

Ever feel like moving forward toward clinical excellence and mastering new skills that can transform lives might be too much for your current load? Not worth it when you consider what you'd have to give up personally? In the video below, NAIOMT's Kathy Stupansky and Brett Windsor discuss some of the challenges women and mothers in the PT field face, and the ways in which advancing one's career and family or life goals can work simultaneously. 

 

 

If you have any questions about our flexible Certification, Fellowship and Doctorate of Science programs,  please don't hesitate to reach out,  or come test the waters at an upcoming manual therapy course to see what we're all about and how we can empower you to balance your own personal and professional goals. Second and third year PT students are sponsored at a significantly discounted rate. 

Topics: manual therapy, manual therapy certification, women in physical therapy, NAIOMT training

Do you see cyclists in the clinic? In the video below, NAIOMT faculty member Stacy Soappman discusses a patient case of pain in the wrist with cycling.

Is this patient's wrist pain with biking a stability or mobility problem? Stacy addresses how to differentiate.

 

Topics: manual therapy, manual therapy certification, treating wrist injury, upper extremity

In the manual therapy video below, distinguished faculty member, Ann Porter Hoke, demonstrates locking of the lumbar spine from above, and how to obtain side-bending to the left and to the right. This is a portion of a larger video demonstrating both locking from above and below, and are components of NAIOMT's Lumbopelvic Spine level II Coursework.

Topics: manual therapy, treating lumbar spine, Manual Therapy Videos, lumbopelvic spine courses

The manual therapy video below is a recent moment in one of our courses. In it, NAIOMT teaching faculty member, Michael Lucido, performs a biomechanical assessment of the sacroiliac joint. We realize every physical therapist is at a different point in their professional skill set, so please let us know if you have any questions at all. We design courses to meet you where you're at, and take you where you want to go in strengthening your manual therapy and clinical reasoning skills for your patients.

Topics: lumbopelvic spine, manual therapy, Manual Therapy Videos, NAIOMT, sacro-iliac joint

As a patient’s pain gets more complicated, so do their lives. The presentation of the patient is no longer just a simple acute injury that should go though the normal healing stages. A lot of times with acute injury, there is no story attached to the injury, so the healing does not get complicated. As the pain becomes more chronic, the source starts to become blurry. The longer the pain persists, the more confusion that happens, as the patient gets further away from and perhaps forgets the initial source.

Topics: chronic pain, manual therapy, NAIOMT, pain

In the manual therapy video below, NAIOMT's Angela Gordon demonstrates a technique to facilitate activation of the mid trap, rhomboids and lower trap. Manual resistance can be added in any direction to increase the activation of the muscles.

Topics: manual therapy, Manual Therapy Videos, overhead athlete, Sidelying Scapular Activation

In the manual therapy video below, NAIOMT faculty member Michael Lucido demonstrates how physical therapists can evaluate a patient's suspected cervicogenic headache. 

Topics: Cervical Spine, cervical spine evaulation, cervicogenic headaches, manual therapy, Manual Therapy Videos, Uncategorized