Full Course Description
Subconscious influences in Back Pain: Hypnotherapy, nutrition and effective home exercise practices for healing
Chronic pain doesn’t just affect the body—it disrupts lives, making even the simplest daily activities feel out of reach. This transformative program offers actionable, real-world tools to help you address pain holistically, unlocking better outcomes for your clients. You’ll dive into proven methods like hypnosis, mindfulness, and acupressure to reduce pain, rewire the brain, and empower clients to take back control of their lives.
Through easy-to-apply nutritional strategies, you’ll learn how to help clients fight inflammation with smarter food and hydration choices. Discover how to teach simple, effective home-based exercises and traction techniques that clients can easily integrate into their routines. With hands-on practice in narrative scripts and video feedback, you’ll strengthen patient connections and drive compliance, leading to meaningful, lasting improvements in mobility and quality of life. This program goes beyond treating pain—it’s about restoring hope, confidence, and the ability to fully engage in life.
Program Information
Objectives
- Implement simple hypnosis techniques to reduce pain symptoms and improve patient relaxation.
- Develop patient-centered strategies to address chronic pain by integrating anti-inflammatory nutrition, hydration education, and therapeutic touch techniques.
- Design effective home exercise and acupressure programs to improve patient compliance, alleviate pain, and restore function.
Outline
Foundations: Treatment and the Sense of Touch
- Importance of touch in therapy and its connection to the subconscious mind
- Combine tactile engagement with "power words" to create a deeper therapeutic impact
- How mindfulness ties to patient connection
- Evaluate the role of the Golgi tendon organ in pain relief
- Introduce acupressure techniques to alleviate tension and modulate pain
Building Trust, Compliance and Positive Expectations
- Active Listening:
- Simple strategies to enhance clinician-patient relationships
- Overcome resistance through empathetic listening and tailored communication
- Placebo Effect: Harnessing Positive Expectations
- Neuroimaging evidence demonstrating the placebo effect’s impact on pain
- Practical examples for integrating this into patient interactions
Nutrition and Hydration for Pain Management
- Role of anti-inflammatory diets in reducing chronic pain
- Practical tips for educating patients on hydration and nutritional adjustments
Harness the Subconscious: Hypnosis and beyond
- Explore how the subconscious influences pain perception
- Techniques to engage the subconscious for therapeutic benefits
- Learn the basics of hypnosis and its clinical applications for chronic pain
- Hands-on practice with narrative scripts to foster relaxation and reduce pain
Pain Information, Focused Attention and Neuroplasticity
- How pain signals are processed and modulated in the brain
- Implications for neuroplasticity and chronic pain management
- Techniques for guiding patient attention to facilitate healing
- Evidence-based strategies for creating new neural pathways
Integrating It All into Practice
- Summary of key techniques: hypnosis, nutrition, touch, and patient connection
- Exercise at Home: Creative Traction Solutions
- Teach patients to use everyday items, like armchairs, for effective home traction
- Emphasize simplicity and safety to improve compliance
- PT Phone Home: Video Playback for Home Programs
- Demonstrate how video feedback can improve patient adherence and outcomes
- Practical examples to apply immediately in clinical practice
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Athletic Trainers
- Chiropractors
Copyright :
07/18/2025
Mastering Manual Therapy for Low Back Pain: Simple Tools to Deliver Big Results to Promote Functional Performance
Low back pain (LBP) affects over 80% of Americans at some point, and it’s rarely simple. Mobility deficits, muscle imbalances, and lifestyle factors often overlap, creating a complex puzzle for you to solve. To stand out and deliver results, you need the ability to integrate evidence-based assessments and interventions that produce measurable functional outcomes—fast.
With patients demanding faster relief and non-invasive care, it’s easy to feel the pressure of balancing effective treatments with the realities of a busy schedule. That’s where this course comes in. By combining the latest research with practical, time-saving techniques, you’ll gain the confidence to treat even challenging cases efficiently and effectively.
The key is integrating evidence-based manual therapy into your treatment plans. These hands-on techniques deliver rapid, lasting results by addressing root causes instead of chasing symptoms. They not only reduce pain and restore function but also complement therapeutic exercise, helping your patients get back to their lives faster—all without adding extra time to your sessions. This course equips you with cutting-edge manual therapy techniques and the skills to create personalized, results-driven care plans efficiently and effectively.
Using the APTA’s Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) as your foundation, you’ll get practical manual therapy interventions like myofascial release, muscle energy techniques, and positional release. You’ll also discover how to integrate these tools seamlessly with therapeutic exercise to restore mobility, ease pain, and improve function in your patients’ daily lives.
Whether you’re treating acute or chronic cases, this seminar will give you the tools to deliver exceptional care that builds your reputation—and your practice.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate lumbar spine mobility impairments through 8 evidence-based provocative tests, correlating findings with their impact on activities of daily living (ADLs) and functional mobility.
- Apply clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to classify low back pain and develop functionally driven treatment plans that support occupational performance in work, self-care, and leisure activities.
- Implement manual therapy interventions, including myofascial release, soft tissue mobilization, muscle energy, and positional release, to improve functional outcomes such as sitting tolerance, lifting mechanics, and transitional movements, based on current evidence.
Outline
Assess Like a Pro: Pinpoint Lumbar Issues with Confidence
- Master 8 provocative tests for lumbar spine mobility
- Detect functional barriers impacting ADLs
- Streamline your evaluations with evidence-based methods
- Recognize red flags and non-mechanical causes during assessment
CPGs Made Practical: Make Faster, Evidence-informed Clinical Decisions
- Classify low back pain with clear clinical guidelines
- Connect patient needs to function-driven care plans
- Decode when and how to use manual therapy effectively to improve performance
Hands-On Healing: Proven Manual Therapy Techniques to Manage Mobility Impairments without Costly Equipment
- Relieve pain and improve mobility with myofascial and soft tissue techniques
- Restore alignment and function using muscle energy and positional release
- Enhance activities like sitting, lifting, and transitioning with targeted interventions
- Optimize mobility with lumbopelvic alignment strategies
Solve the Toughest Cases: Strategies for Chronic LBP
- Problem-solve with case-based examples grounded in functional outcomes
- Address overlapping factors like mobility deficits and pain cycles that disrupt daily routines
- Actionable steps for treating both acute and chronic cases
Target Audience
- Athletic Trainers
- Chiropractors
- Licensed Massage Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
Copyright :
07/18/2025
Breath, Spine and Health: Diaphragmatic Techniques for Low Back and Core
Low back pain isn’t just about the back—it’s about the whole body.
While traditional approaches address the surface, this training takes you deeper into advanced concepts like breathing mechanics, myofascial systems, and core stability—key elements that can unlock even greater patient success.
Using the innovative five-diaphragm model, you’ll refine your ability to connect breath, alignment, and function in a way that transforms outcomes. This isn’t about reinventing your practice; it’s about enhancing it with cutting-edge techniques like diaphragmatic breathing, manual therapy, yoga-inspired exercises, and mindfulness strategies.
With practical, hands-on tools, you’ll leave ready to elevate your assessments, treatments, and patient education. Whether in the clinic or empowering patients at home, this training will help you stay ahead of the curve in low back pain management—solidifying your reputation as the go-to expert your patients rely on.
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze breathing mechanics and the five-diaphragm model to identify root causes of chronic low back pain and functional impairments.
- Apply evidence-based diaphragmatic breathing techniques and myofascial release strategies to improve core stability and functional movement.
- Design patient-centered exercise programs integrating posture, alignment, and mindful muscle engagement to enhance functional outcomes and prevent recurrence.
Outline
Breathe Easy: Foundations of The Five-Diaphragm Framework
- Explore how the five diaphragms support spinal and core health
- Connect breathing mechanics to posture, movement, and pain
- Recognize compensatory patterns that create dysfunction
Breaking the Pain Cycle: Connect Breath, Alignment, and Function
- Learn why traditional treatments often fail without addressing breathing dysfunction
- Link the respiratory diaphragm to core stability and alignment
- Relate breathing patterns to posture, pain, and movement issues
- Use breathing strategies to improve clinical outcomes
Proven Tools of the Trade: Techniques That Make a Difference
- Practice diaphragmatic breathing for pain relief and performance
- Apply myofascial release to improve function and alignment
- Integrate yoga-based exercises and breathing techniques for lasting stability in ADLs
Create Sustainable Solutions to Enhance Long Term Outcomes
- Create custom home programs for ADLs, sports, and work tasks
- Teach mindful muscle engagement for posture and movement
- Study case examples of the five-diaphragm model in action
Target Audience
- Athletic Trainers
- Chiropractors
- Licensed Massage Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
Copyright :
07/18/2025
Dysfunctional Posture: How it impacts pain, biomechanical, functional, occupational and quality of life performance
Postural dysfunction is more than just poor alignment—it’s a multifactorial challenge influenced by weakness, muscle imbalances, and habits. Discover how poor posture triggers a biomechanical cascade that impacts pain, balance, breathing, and overall function—and learn proven strategies to address it effectively.
This course provides you with the tools to uncover the root causes of hyperkyphosis, helping you differentiate between structural limitations and fixable issues. You’ll learn how to identify hyperkyphosis early using objective tools like digital goniometers and inclinometers and track measurable progress throughout treatment.
Through evidence-based techniques, you’ll explore effective ways to reduce pain without over-reliance on passive modalities, while addressing muscle imbalances to restore alignment and mobility. Leave with the confidence to create targeted, actionable treatment plans that transform posture and quality of life in as few as 8 sessions.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the impact of hyperkyphosis on functional mobility and independence using standardized assessments such as inclinometry and digital goniometry, and correlate findings to quality-of-life metrics, including balance and fall risk.
- Design and implement individualized intervention plans that integrate evidence-based techniques, such as NASM and Sahrmann corrective exercises, to restore thoracic mobility and improve core strength, leading to measurable improvements in functional tasks like ADL’s, gait and transfers.
- Demonstrate the ability to reduce dysfunctional posture and associated symptoms by applying targeted postural correction strategies, achieving documented improvements in patient outcomes, including TUG test performance, pain levels, and pulmonary function.
Outline
Posture Matters: Unlocking Pain-Free Movement and Functional Independence
How Postural Dysfunction Impacts EVERYTHING
- How hyperkyphosis contributes to chronic pain, reduced pulmonary function, and mobility limitations
- Ripple effects of dysfunctional posture on balance, fall risk, and overall quality of life
- Connect the dots: See how poor posture impacts biomechanics, occupational tasks, and daily activities
Assessment: Spot Dysfunctional Posture in Minutes
- Master standardized tools (goniometers, inclinometers) to accurately measure kyphosis and posture
- Gain hands-on experience with reliable techniques to identify thoracic misalignment and pelvic tilt
- Analyze muscle imbalances: shortened iliopsoas, weakened extensors, and postural compensations common in aging patients
Proven Methods to Efficiently and Effectively Correct Posture
- Go beyond stretching with evidence-based strategies that combine inhibition, lengthening, activation, and integration of key muscle groups
- Implement CRAC techniques and advanced corrective exercises such as thoracic rotations, modified cobras, and pelvic "teeter-totter" drills
- Explore the NASM framework and Sahrmann corrective exercises to achieve sustainable improvements in thoracic mobility, core strength, and alignment
Get in Action with Confidence: Case Studies to Put it All Together
- Watch real-world examples of how these techniques transform patient outcomes
- See how just 8 sessions can dramatically reduce hyperkyphosis and restore function
- Build a treatment plan that integrates seamlessly into your current practice
- Witness the impact of targeted interventions on metrics like TUG scores, QOL outcomes, and functional independence
Target Audience
- Athletic Trainers
- Chiropractors
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
Copyright :
07/18/2025