Canadian RMT Magazine Spring 2016 Apr. 2016 | 页面 14

Integrated Manual
Therapy & Orthopedic
Massage Training
By James Waslaski
ntegrated Manual Therapy and Orthopedic Massage
is so much more than just a single massage therapy
modality. Specializing in just one modality or
manual therapy discipline limits your ability to
treat multifaceted musculoskeletal pain conditions.
Integrated Manual Therapy begins with performing
detailed orthopedic assessment and postural evaluations.
This groundwork provides vital critical thinking and clinical
reasoning skills that will allow the therapist to match the most
appropriate modality or manual therapy discipline to the exact
underlying pathology of each specific clinical condition.
Based on the client history and detailed assessment,
therapists will blend multiple modalities and disciplines such
as Myofascial Release, Orthopedic Massage, NMT, Posturology,
Myoskeletal Alignment, Anatomy Trains Knowledge, Scar
Tissue Mobilization, Joint Capsule Release , Joint Mobilization
Techniques, Stretching Tight Facilitated Muscle Groups, and
Activating and Strengthening Weak, Inhibited Muscle Groups.
This total structural and postural based program will bring the
musculoskeletal system back into balance for pain free living
and performance enhancement. It will also treat the cause of
pain patterns rather that simply treating the resultant clinical
symptoms. Following each treatment, the client will be given
specific corrective exercises based on the initial assessment to
maintain the outcomes of each treatment session.
Since therapists vary in their learning abilities, each seminar
presentation brilliantly blends auditory, kinesthetic, and visual
learning styles to assure every participant can comprehend
each and every technique. Participants will literally be looking
inside the human body with our state of the art multimedia
presentation format utilizing 2 screens in every presentation.
Up to date research, and current clinical studies will be
referenced in every presentation to make sure participants are
getting accurate up to date information. Seminar participants
include LMTs. PTs, Athletic Trainers, Chiropractors,
Osteopaths, Physicians, Nurses, Chartered Physiotherapists, and
other health care professional sharing their diversified manual
therapy knowledge for the best interest of the clients we serve.
This article will elaborate on the protocols for shoulder, arm
and low back conditions. However, it is also a great explanation
of how we teach all other parts of the body. The highlight of
this particular article will be to share the capsular work critical
to treating complicated shoulder and low back conditions.
As I travel the world teaching manual therapists in every
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discipline, I realize
that understanding
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