The Eclectic Approach to Upper & Lower Quarter Assessment & Treatment

Overview

The Eclectic Approach to Upper & Lower Quarter Assessment & Treatment is a one-of-a-kind online course that introduces and highlights critical aspects of patient engagement and treatment that are often overlooked in most physical therapy schools and traditional continuing education courses.

Modern Manual Therapy's most popular course is finally available in its entirety! Shot and edited professionally, it's the full 2-day course in 26 amazing modules! 11.5 hours of content!

Eligible for 12.5 CEUs - we give you everything you need to submit to your state board for approval.

If you've been following Dr. E online on social media, his podcasts, or blogs, you know that Assessment and Treatment can be simple and doesn't need 5 levels to attain rapid responses from most patients.

Enhance your existing toolbox with an evidence-based framework for assessment and treatment.

Have you been wanting to expand your knowledge by learning a comprehensive assessment and treatment protocol for upper and lower quarter pain and dysfunction? If so, this course will provide you with the assessment and treatment tools for working with the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine as well as the shoulder, elbow, wrists, hip, knee, and ankle.

A comprehensive movement screen and repeated motions will be used as evaluation tools. Home exercises for patients will be covered with an emphasis on patient education and self-treatment.

What this course will cover:

• Evidence-Based Medicine (what it is and isn’t)
• What do patients (people) want?
• A better understanding of pain
• The role of breathing & meditation
• Fundamentals of Therapeutic Exercise (especially in presence of persistent pain)
• Sleep for recovery and performance
• Nutrition

Learning Objectives 

• The principles of Eval, Reset, and Stabilize
• Movement Screen and Repeated Motions based evaluation
• Neurodynamic testing ­ median, radial, ulnar nerves and sciatic and femoral nerves
• Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Massage (IASTM) with the EDGE Tool
• Neurodynamic treatment
• Functional mobilization of the hip, knee, and ankle
• Home exercises, repeated motions based resets and using the EDGE Mobility Bands
• An emphasis on patient education and self-treatment

Note: this course is fully online and is digital-only like all our media. Upon purchase, you will immediately receive instructions on how to watch and get your handouts to follow along. Minutiae Not Included! 

Have you ever thought.....

• I can't "feel" what I'm supposed to feel
• SIJ Palpation tests are the most unintuitive things ever invented
• if a patient presents in pain, why is it ok to have painful treatments?
• I just learned 100 techniques and 60 different types of assessments, NOW WHAT?

Then Modern Manual Therapy is for you! We use current evidence, updated and simple screens that lead to patient empowering self-assessments and treatments. If you want to make a rapid change in most patients, you need to educate them, not use more passive care.

Audience

PT, MD, DO, ATC, MT, and everyone interested in the Manual Therapy approach.

US CEU Approval

This online course is approved for 12.5 CEUs for Physical Therapists in 39 US States. The US States that this course has been approved for can be found here.

In order to qualify for the CEUs, you must complete the entire course and pass the exam.

Further details are included in the course.