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Treatment of Common Extremity Dysfunction through Mobilization

Audience: PT/PTA, OT/OTA, ATC
Course level: Intermediate
Date: November 2-3, 2019
Check in time: 7:30-8:00AM
Class time: 8:00-5:30 PM
Location: Maplewood Professional Building
1655 Beam Avenue #202
Maplewood, MN 55109
Contact Hours: 16

Great Lakes Seminars are an approved provider through the BOC, AOTA approved provider and course has been submitted for approval from the Minnesota board of PT. 

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.

 Fairview Rehab Services is host with Great Lakes Seminars

 Course Fee: $475

Course Description:

There are few classes available where you will learn how to treat so many common extremity dysfunctions with so much success. This is a class that will change how you look at common extremity diagnoses and will help you to start treating differently on Monday morning. The focus of the class is using joint mobilization to normalize the stress on the tissues around a joint; immediately decreasing the stress on the tissues and secondary pain that this creates. This will take your understanding of extremity mobilization far beyond what you learned in school. 

As with all of our manual therapy courses, this seminar will follow a progression of principles and reinforce them throughout the 16 hours, is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give the clinician hands-on skills they use immediately upon their return to the clinical setting.

Instructor:

Jeff Garbacz
PT, DPT, CIMT
Jeff began his education as a physical therapist at Albion College where he received a B.A. in Sports Medicine with an emphasis on Biomechanics. He went onto the University of Michigan to receive his Doctorate of Physical Therapy. Jeff has extensive clinical experience working with the orthopedic population. He utilizes manual therapy in combination with a functionally based exercise to allow his patients to return to their prior functional level. Jeff's philosophy in treating patients involves finding the origin of the problem versus treating the symptoms, allowing problems to go away and stay away. Jeff has trained the primary instructors for the Knee and Shoulder courses and is the primary instructor for the Extremity Mobilization course for Great Lakes Seminars. Jeff is the Director of Operations for Advanced Physical Therapy in Southfield, MI.

Course Objectives:

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

  • Accurately explain the rationale for performing joint mobilization and its specific physiological effects
  • Explain and correctly demonstrate grading, oscillation techniques and sustained-hold techniques of joint mobilizations
  • Accurately identify the joint surface anatomy of each joint discussed in this course.
  • Accurately explain the application of the joint surface anatomy to the mechanics of each joint discussed in this course
  • Demonstrate proper extremity mobilization technique, hand placement, and body mechanics during lab scenarios       

Agenda:   

Saturday, November 2

7:30am    Continental Breakfast
8:00am    Lecture: Introduction, overview of anatomy, biomechanics, mobilizations
10:00am  Lecture: Discussion of hypertonicity vs adaptive shortening, tendinosis vs. tendinitis, muscle weakness vs muscle inhibition
12:00pm  Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm    Lab: The shoulder complex mobilizations
4:30pm    Review
5:00pm    Review of Evidence-Based Literature for today’s topics
5:30pm    Adjourn
Sunday, November 3
7:30am    Continental Breakfast
8:00am    Lab: Speed mobilizations
8:30am    Lab: The elbow complex mobilizations
10:00am  Lab: The wrist/hand complex mobilizations
11:15am  Lab: The hip complex mobilizations
12:00pm  Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm    Lab: The knee complex mobilizations
3:00pm    Lab: The foot/ankle complex mobilizations
3:45pm    Case studies/speed mobilizations
4:15pm    Review
4:30pm    Review of Evidence-Based Literature for today’s topics
5:00pm    Adjourn

   

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