Structure / Functional Integration
Time
8:30am 9am-5pm
Date
March 22nd – 23rd 2024
Location
Crossroads Physical Therapy
Class Description
Taught by Stephen Moran D.P.T.
This two-day intermediate-level seminar has been designed to enhance the clinician’s skills in effectively diagnosing musculoskeletal dysfunctions. A review of anatomy, physiology and kinesiology will be taught in relationship to all musculoskeletal areas covered. Clinicians will be taught manual therapeutic techniques to address musculoskeletal dysfunctions as well as a hierarchy of treatment progression. The course will include an optional comprehensive exam, offering the clinician eligibility toward certification in the line of osteopathic manual therapy.
Course Objectives
This two-day course is designed to offer hands-on experience and to help the clinician gain expertise by learning how to:
- Identify musculoskeletal dysfunction.
- Formulate an appropriate P.T. diagnosis for musculoskeletal dysfunctions
- Describe the difference between structural vs. functional dysfunction
- Evaluate and treat pelvic, sacral, spinal and LE musculoskeletal dysfunctions
- Evaluate and treat soft tissue dysfunctions of the lumbosacral and thoracolumbar spines, pelvis and LE
