An Orthopedic Approach to Myofascial Release

Fairview Rehab Services is host with Great Lakes Seminars

Date: Saturday and Sunday, November 2-3, 2024
Intended audience: PT, PTA, AT
Check in time: 7:30-8:00AM
Class time: Saturday 8:00-5:30PM and Sunday 8:00-5:00PM (CST)
Course level: Intermediate
Contact hours: 15.5
St. Catherine DPT and PTA therapy programs is host site for this course
Location: St. Catherine University/Mendel Hall
2004 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
Course Fee: $450.00
Course intended to be completed in full.  If you need to arrive late or leave early the CE department must be notified before course takes place for contact hours to be adjusted

Great Lakes Seminars will submit the approval to the MN Board of PT

PT/PTA partial credit: Hours for partial credit attended will be adjusted on your course
certificate and MN board of Approval number removed as course is approved as attending in full.  You may still be able to submit the partial hours attended towards your professional license.

Athletic Trainer: Continuing Education Information Great Lakes Seminars (BOC AP# P2139) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers. All our courses are approved for Category A Hours. Athletic Trainers should claim only those hours spent in the educational program.

Group Discounts: 

If two people from the same organization register for a course, each person will receive a 10% discount using code REHAB10 and three or more registered will receive a 15% discount using code REHAB15. Please email or call ahead of time with the names of the people who will be registering as a group, [email protected] or 612-672-5607.

For Group discounts:  USE CODE rehab10 for 10% discount and rehab15 for 15% discount for group. 

Cancellation Policy: Cancellation Fee will apply

Instructor:

Scott Braje PT, MPT, CIMT, CIDN

Scott graduated from Colorado State University in 1997 with a B.S. in Exercise and Sport Science, a Minor in Anatomy and Neurobiology, a concentration in Wellness Program Management, and an emphasis in Cardiac Rehabilitation. He then moved out to San Francisco and obtained his CSCS while interning under the (former) president of the National Strength and Conditioning Association while engaging in high level athletic performance training. Scott obtained his Masters in Physical Therapy from Andrews University in Dayton, OH in 2000 and has worked in outpatient orthopedic physical therapy clinics ever since.

Scott began working with Great Lakes in 2004, and, as consistent with Great Lakes philosophy, he uses a “test, treat, re-test” focus on each treatment to determine the proper course of action in achieving maximal results with each patient. He is presently the Clinic Director of the Physical Therapy Department at a multi-disciplinary Pain and Wellness Center in the North Shore of Boston.

Course summary: 
In school we learn a lot about joint mechanics, however, we don’t learn much about all the soft tissues that make those joints move. Plus, we certainly aren’t exposed to how the soft tissue works together to enable our function. This course will help you to learn a clinically and anatomically based approach to myofascial release. We focus on how the muscle and fascia create dysfunction in the body, increasing stress and causing symptoms that become common diagnoses we treat every day. Come learn to integrate this effective tool into your daily treatment and expand the options you have to treat dysfunction! As with all our manual therapy courses, this course is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give you skills you can use immediately upon returning to the clinic.

 

Topics Covered

• Palpation of the bony structures and muscular segments

• Motion testing - static and dynamic

• Treatment of the thorax, upper quadrants, lower quadrants

• Treatment of scars • Integrated fascial elongation

• Three-dimensional, functional stretching

• Application to specific clinical situations

Objectives: 

At the completion of the seminar, the participant will be able to:

  • Confidently describe and independently state the rationale for doing Myofascial Release and its specific effect
  • Correctly demonstrate proper hand technique, grading of the level of touch, and the effects of a release
  • Correctly describe the importance of fluid fascial movement in a 3 dimensional system, allowing for the physiologic system to have the ability to provide resilience to dysfunction
  • Confidently describe the different layers of fascia and know when to treat each layer
  • Confidently explain and independently state how specific myofascial restrictions in different parts of the body can create the orthopedic dysfunctions that we treat on a daily basis

Agenda:

Day 1:

7:30am Check in
8:00am Introduction to Myofascial Release
9:00am Lecture: Overview of anatomy of the fascial system and its purpose
10:15am Lecture: Introduction and review of specific release techniques
11:30am Lab: Temporomandibular and neck
12:00pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm Lab: Shoulder
5:00pm Lab: Review of evidence-based literature
5:30pm Adjourn
Day 2:
7:30am Check in
8:00am Lab: Lumbopelvic
10:15am Lab: Knee, ankle and foot
12:00pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm Lab: Elbow, wrist and scars
3:45pmLab: Review
4:00pm Lab: Application to specific clinical situations
4:30pm Lab: Review of evidence-based literature
5:00pm Adjourn

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