We have taken video from the live 15-hour lecture and lab course including Power Point slides, demonstration, lab, and audience question and answer sessions. The course is available as a set of 8 DVD’s in total for viewing in the comfort of your home or office. Here’s how it works:
Register online or by phone, fax or mail.
Receive a set of 8 DVD’s by mail via UPS ground.
Watch the 15 hour course in the comfort of your home or office.
Return the DVD’s in the pre-paid envelope after 7 days.
Complete the written examination to verify your completion of the course.
Receive a Certificate of Completion by mail.
Each registrant will receive a course manual in a 3 ring binder and a set of 8 DVD’s that contains live course video. Course materials and DVD’s will be shipped via UPS Ground or USPS Priority Mail. Rush shipping is available for an additional fee of $30. DVD’s must be returned after 7 days in the pre-paid envelope provided. DVD’s postmarked after 7 days will incur a late fee of $30 per day. Your credit card will be automatically charged for late fees incurred. The discs are standard DVD’s, playable in almost all DVD players and on almost all recent Windows or Mac computers equipped with a DVD drive and DVD player software like Windows Media Player, Power DVD, Real Player, or Apple DVD Player.
Course Tuition
Early Registration Fee: $395 (rush shipping available - $30 / International - contact us)
We encourage groups of 2 or more to register for home study courses together. This will provide an opportunity to participate in lab sessions while watching the video from your home or office.
Groups of 2 or more receive a 10% discount
Groups of 5 or more receive a 15% discount
Course Description
This advanced lecture and lab course is structured so that clinicians will gain an appreciation for the postural influences of: rib torsion, asymmetrical oblique strength, inconsistent breathing patterns, habitual use of accessory respiratory musculature and a restricted diaphragm. The focus of this course will be to “balance” polyarticular muscular chains through focused functional assessment of the upper-half. Integrated treatments using manual therapy and specific non-manual techniques to restore respiratory and rotational functions of the trunk will be covered. Participants will be able to immediately apply PRI clinical assessment and management skills when treating diagnosis such as “fibromyalgia”, thoracic outlet syndrome and shoulder dysfunction.
Educational Level: Advanced
Learning Objectives
Recognize structural influences and breathing patterns of faulty postures
Design a postural isolation and inhibition program that includes the integration of appropriate dynamics of respiration
Release restricted polyarticular chains and torsional patterns of the trunk through specific manual and non-manual orientation of ventilatory muscle
Restore thorax-scapular force couples, rib alignment and abdominal-diaphragm muscle integration.
Course Agenda
Discs 1-4
Overview of Anterior Interior Chain (AIC), Brachial Chain (BC) and Zone of Apposition (ZOA)
Causes of Faulty Postures
Continuation of Causes of Faulty Postures
Respiratory Mechanics of the Thorax: Muscle and Structure
Rib Kinematics
Continuation of Respiratory Mechanics of the Thorax
Left AIC Evaluation and Manual Assessment (Lab)
Left AIC Manual Restoration Techniques (Lab)
Discs 5-8
Overview of Thoracic Mediastinum
Postural Respiration Functional Relationships
Right BC Evaluation and Assessment Demonstration
Continuation of Right BC Evaluation and Demonstration of Right Superior T4 Manual Technique
Right BC Restoration Tests and Right Superior T4 Manual Technique (Lab)
Manual Right Subclavius Technique and Demonstration of Remaining Manual BC Techniques (Lab)
Overview of Right Low Trapezius and Right Tricep Programs
Continuation of Right Low Trapezius and Right Tricep Programs
Approved by the Oklahoma State Board of Physical Therapy for 15 Category B hours of continuing education. Approval valid for the 2010-2011 reporting period.
Approved by the Florida Physical Therapy Association for 18 continuing education hours. Approval valid January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.
Approved by the Minnesota Board of Physical Therapy for Category 1 continuing education credit. 15 CE hours awarded. Course approval #4017. February 1, 2010 through January 31, 2011.
Approved by the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 1.5 CEUs. February 12, 2008 through February 12, 2012.
