Walt Fritz – Foundations in Manual Therapy Whole Body Online Course (NCBTMB CEs app’d) 2023

Walt Fritz – Foundations in Manual Therapy Whole Body Online Course (NCBTMB CEs app’d) 2023

A comprehensive look at the whole person from a patient-centered, shared decision-making approach to a slow, sustained style of manual therapy. Target audience: MTs, PTs, OTs. SLPs/RDHs are referred to the Voice/Swallowing Disorders.

1. Introduction

• Course Overview

• Review the course materials and CEU requirements.

• Downloadable course manual

• An introduction to this approach

• Shared decision-making in the manual therapy setting: Letting go of control.

• Working from a consent-based perspective

• How might touch be impactful?

• Sensation and communication: Potential barriers

• Shielded manual therapy: Assuring patient safety

2. Chapter 1: The Head

• The facial region (1)

• The facial region (2)

• Internal Jaw Region Introduction

• Internal Jaw Region

• Inner jaw variations

• Jaw options

• Tongue region introduction

• Tongue region

• Base of tongue

• Floor of the mouth

3. Chapter 2: The Neck and Shoulders

• Basics of neck traction

• Neck traction with upper chest and shoulder engagement

• The occipital lift

• Retro-laryngeal Introduction (1)

• Retro-laryngeal Region Introduction (2)

• Retrolaryngeal Region (seated)

• Retrolaryngeal region (supine)

• Infra- and suprahyoid region (supine)

• Lateral neck and shoulders (supine)

• Side-lying shoulder depression

4. Chapter 3: The Arms and Shoulders

• Arm pulls

• The shoulder and arm drape

• The shoulder waterfall

• The upper chest and shoulder region

• Prone shoulder and chest region (1)

• Prone shoulder and chest region (2)

• Prone shoulder and chest region (3)

• Prone scapular and chest region (4)

• Prone scapular (and throat) region

• The upper arm

• The arm and hand

5. Chapter 4: The Torso and Low Back

• Trunk to pelvis (sidelying)

• Lateral chest

• Rotational trunk engagements

• Thoracic extension

• The diaphragm region: Supine

• The diaphragm region: Prone

• Anterior lower abdominal and lower back exploration

• Supine anterior/posterior lumbosacral region

• A simpler supine sacral traction

• Scar and abdominal region work

• Prone lumbosacral region

• Sacral and coxxygeal region

6. Chapter 5: The Hips and Legs

• Leg pull

• Prone leg engagement

• Leg and hip roll (1)

• Leg and hip roll (2)

• Treatment to the anterior leg, knee and foot

• Treatment to the posterior leg

7. Chapter 6: Teaching self-treatment

• Self-treatment

• Self-treatment to the jaw

• Self-treatment to the inner jaw region

• Self-treatment to the neck

• Self-treatment to the anterior neck

• Self-treatment to the anterior cervical region

• Self-treatment to the tongue

• Self-treatment to the base of the tongue

• Self-treatment to the upper thorax

• Self-treatment to the hand

• Self-stretch to the diaphragm region

• Self treatment: Prone prop variations

• Self-treatment to the hip flexor region

• Self-stretch to the hip

• Self-treatment to the torso, hip, and leg

• Self-treatment to the quadriceps and knee

8. Final steps

• Quiz

• Thanks

• Whole Body Course Survey

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