"Safe and efficient manual therapy assessments and interventions based on sound clinical reasoning, current evidence, and anatomy and physiology are taught in a comfortable setting with time for hands-on learning and feedback."
Mette Coleman, PT, CMPT, DSc student
Watch NAIOMT teaching faculty Michael Lucido demonstrate the examination and treatment of a hypertonic psoas major muscle affecting hip motion. This technique is taught in NAIOMT’s courses C-611 Lumbopelvic Spine II and C-705 Advanced Lower Quadrant Integration.
The next course in Annville, PA is C-705A "Hybrid" Adv. Lower Quadrant Integration Part A, which will be taught online and at Lebanon Valley College on August 25 - October 5, 2021.
Courses can be taken in any order. Follow links for course details and to register:
Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PE
Certification and Exams
Watch our teaching faculty demonstrate key techniques from NAIOMT's core courses.
Brett Windsor graduated as a physiotherapist from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia in 1994. He became APTA board certified as an orthopedic clinical specialist (OCS) in 2000 and completed the NAIOMT manual therapy clinical fellowship in 2003, graduating to fellowship in the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Therapy (FAAOMPT) in 2004. Brett is the current CEO of NAIOMT and also holds the position of National Director of Clinical Excellence at ATI Physical Therapy based in Bolingbrook, IL.
Learn more about Brett Windsor
Listen to Steve Allen's conversation with Brett Windsor in the podcast “You Think You Know: Conversations That Inspire”:
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Is spinal accessory nerve a source of chronic upper trapezius pain / tightness? Watch Liz Henry's demonstration.
The North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy, Inc. (NAIOMT) is a private physical therapist-owned organization dedicated to achieving the highest standards of clinical practice for manual physical therapists.
NAIOMT specializes in a flexible teaching program, which seeks to promote the utilization of safe, effective and efficient manual physical therapy management of musculoskeletal dysfunction. It further seeks an environment that is conducive to the application of a reasoned approach to manual physical therapy through critical inquiry and the creation of new knowledge and skills based on scientific study and dissemination of that knowledge.
NAIOMT strongly supports the union of the clinician, academician and researcher to further facilitate the development of quality patient care, physical therapy education and the development of master clinicians.
NAIOMT Teaching Faculty Liz Henry demonstrating a manual therapy technique during a Cervical Spine I course.