Course Details...
Course Details...
Functional Manual Therapy - Upper Quarter
A Systematic Approach to Exploring the Central Peripheral Connection
Dramatically improve your ability to treat common neural and muscular dysfunctions--cutting your treatment time by 50% or more.
**** Don't miss this novel, common sense system of evaluation and treatment!
Course Participant Feedback
Here's what our San Diego, July 14-15, 2001 attendees had to say:
- Your demonstrations on class attendees were most convincing due to their quick and profound effects. Keep up the great work. I'm looking forward to your lower quarter course.
- To be able to go in and efficiently & effectively assess the central problem and treat dysfunction in a functional manner will tremendously enhance my treatments and outcomes.
- Very applicable, usable assessment techniques and treatments. Experienced benefits myself and was amazed.
- I liked the quick results and combining a lot of manual therapy approaches into logical techniques.
- Good visual results. Able to see immediate results and take back to the clinic.
- The techniques I learned from Alan are applicable to a variety of clinical conditions. I've
used them to directly address soft tissue dysfunctions restricting AROM, those which produce
neurological symptoms as radiating pain and numbness, and to treat edema which inhibits normal
recruitment of muscular contractions. I've used the visceral techniques to indirectly treat
conditions by decreasing pain due to poor intestinal motility, or pain snf impaired motion due
to scar tissue from pre-existing surgical incisions. Alan presents a concise evaluation and
treatment approach that has enhanced the time I spend with each client and improved the quality
of the results.
Lorraine Goldman, PT Long Beach Memorial Hospital Long Beach California
A Case Study at our San Diego course:
While preparing for the course last Saturday morning, a physical therapy assistant, mentioned to Alan that she had a long standing problem with her hand and arm. It seems she fainted at work two years ago, hitting her head on the wall. She was diagnosed with a neck sprain and a cervical disk bulge. She received medical and physical therapy care during the four months she was off work and returned with modified duty. Currently she is considered to "have enough range of motion" to do her inpatient physical therapy assistant duties.
Her continuing symptoms include loss of strength in her left arm whenever she tried to lift anything, including patients. She has to quickly compensate with her right arm for a majority of tasks. As Alan was taking her history, we noticed that she always supported her left hand on her hip. Letting it hang would immediately bring about tingling or numbness and pain. She wakes up in the night with a painful upper left quarter. She volunteered to be a demonstration patient at the start of the course. Alan spent less than ten minutes evaluating and treating her with an 80% improvement. The next morning she told us that she had slept through the night, and was making complete use of her left hand. Her posture was decidedly "flexed". Alan's visceral treatment took a couple minutes. Her response was very gratifying. You could see her straighten up and say something like "gosh I can breathe again".