Physical Therapy Shoulder Seminar

The revamped and updated shoulder course that has been rated an average of 9.2 out of 10 is now called...

Conquering Shoulder & Arm Pain.

(Previously titled: "How to Effectively Evaluate & Treat Non-Surgical Shoulder Disorders ")

  “… A two-day course for serious clinicians who want  better results treating the shoulder.”  

 Tuition: $465 (still...after 4 years)

 A few of the important items covered in the course:

• What the cervico-thoracic ratio is and what implications it has on the shoulder?
• What inverse C7-T1 function is and what to do about it?
• If weakness in the hands is something you should be concerned about when assessing the shoulder?
• When it really IS 'frozen shoulder' and when it's something else going on.
• What process maps are and how you can use them to streamline patient care?
• What tests differentiate any impingement vs. a full-thickness cuff tear?
• How to improve shoulder flexion or reduce pain with impingement signs without even touching the shoulder?
• Which rib has been shown to be an intrinsic cause of shoulder dysfunction and what you need to do about it?
• When to refer a patient so you look like a true clinician, not a technician?

If you don’t know the answers to these and you treat shoulder problems…yes, we're teaching something new & you should know this stuff. 

“Is this one of those ‘esoteric’ courses where they teach something weird?”

Nope.  No chanting, humming, pulling hair or skin, tapping on “energy points”, balancing chakras, squeezing ears or restoring auras is part of this course. That’s not mainstream PT and you won’t find it here.

If PT Journal, JOSPT, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehab, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Spine Journal, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, or Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise allow weird stuff in their published studies…then I guess this course will be very weird. 

I know there are a lot of courses and newsletters that give a lot of information on the subject, but unfortunately also give little guidance as to it’s applicability in a practical & systematic  fashion.  

You can read all the books and newsletters, but unless you’ve put it into a systematic approach, you are likely:

1. confused about what you’re doing but too afraid to say it, 
2. using a “shotgun” approach to managing your patients, 
3. using the same protocols you’ve been using for most of your career, 
4. doing what the physician tells you to do, 
5. copying what the other therapists in your clinic are doing, or (God forbid), 
6. designing your treatments based on those exercise cards.     

If this course is about anything, it is about you, the clinician, learning to spot and resolve the issues in managing shoulder & arm pain!

Okay, so the rubber has to meet the road.   Now is NOT the time to be lazy, to put it off, or think you’ve got time to register. NOW is the time to register. 

You can have the answer  or continue on in the same old… 

ü  “Mrs. Jones still can’t reach into her cupboard to…”

ü  “Mr. Smith still can’t sleep on his side without pain…”

ü  “The patient continues to complain of pain at work …”

ü  “He still says it hurts to reach across his body…”

ü  “She continues to have pain when putting on a bra..”

There’s a few ways to register.

You can print out the registration on the last page, fill it out & send it in or fax it in with payment. 

1.     Call in 330-629-8834 and ask to register for the course. Jen is the person on staff who usually does this.

2.     Pr int this registration form or the course brochure and follow the directions for registration.

Register today  .  Each venue size is different. We gauge anywhere from 15-20 attendees due to room size, no more. If they fill up, that’s it. No exceptions.

Michael Rinaldi, PT, OCS

P.S. This course includes a CD/DVD of the techniques and evaluation processes that you will learn during the course that will complement the manual. This will be included at no additional cost to you.

P.P.S. You’ll need a large bath towel and a mobilization/gait belt for some of the techniques.