Physical Therapy Shoulder Seminar

A Seminar That Gives You an Approach to Better Outcomes with Shoulder Pain.       

 Tuition: $465

This is  a two-day, content-rich,  evidence-based , step-by-step course on how to systematically and  effectively  knock-out shoulder pain and get better results in less time!

For Physical Therapists, Assistants, & Trainers...

Does it bother you  when:

ü         Your frozen shoulder patients aren’t doing better and think it’s because of you?

ü          Your impingement patients take too long to see notable improvement? 

ü         Your patient gets “fixed up” from someone else? 

ü          The referring physician pulls the patient out of PT and sends them elsewhere? 

ü         Your patients quit coming to PT because you know they’re not getting better? 

If it does bother you, thank goodness, you have a conscience.  For those of you who are struggling a bit with shoulder problems we understand.

But It’s Not Your Fault! 

Here's the Course:   

How to Effectively Evaluate & Treat Non-Surgical Shoulder Disorders

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

By applying the information from this seminar you will: 

ü       Know more  about handling shoulder dysfunction that your local orthopod does— you will feel more confident about what you’re doing clinically.

ü        Learn a six-minute exam process that gives you data to know exactly where to start first!

ü       Find out which exercises are most effective at handling key exam findings and when and how to prescribe them for maximum efficiency.

ü       Realize why patients “go south” on you, what to do to turn them around, and   how to prevent it from happening again.

ü        Understand the viewpoint  of a primary care physical therapist—not just a clinician who repeats the same old protocols and exercises that you’ve been doing for years.

ü     Understand why you must look at the spine even when patients don’t complain about neck pain! 

ü        Have useful treatment processes that you can use at work the next day.

ü       Understand how to determine what indicators of success/progress to look for and how to manage your patients based on them.

ü       Know which functional measurement index is most useful (you’ll get a copy of it) for revealing your patient’s functional status---plus, an interesting way to use it to discover what type of patient they are: embellisher, non-confronter, or realist.   This is also built into the documentation system you’ll get as well. 

"One of the best courses I've attended in a long time with lots of treatment techniques I can take away and use."  --Amy W, PT

To illustrate the point about results, this is a recent update from an attendee at a Florida seminar: 

"In a check-up 8 weeks after the course, one attendee reported back to me stating she had resolved symptoms in 5 shoulder cases and had them D/C’d within 2 weeks of returning to the clinic after taking the course and applying the material  . 

At 3-months after the course she also reported that she felt she had progressed from being “intermediate” or “advanced” to “advanced +” and “expert” level in dealing with the shoulder and that she is “consistently getting successes and much better outcomes and having very few failures.” ----from a 30 year veteran PT 

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Look, there are even more reasons to attend this course.  But your mind will try to come up with any old reason not to take action, which is pretty normal…that’s the way the reactive part of the mind usually works.   But if you think: 

“I don’t have the time… Too busy…” 

You aren’t going to be gone a month--just two days that will be worth your while.  And with the course locations, you can make a short family trip out of it.  

Fact :    We make time for things that are important to us.  If your patient outcomes are important, you’ll make the time to advance your skills. 

Fact :    Humans feel better when they learn something of value or discover something new.  This course has more than just a few tidbits of valuable, applicable data that you can use immediately upon returning to the clinic. 

“Too expensive..?” 

In surveying of a handful of CEU providers across the country, we’ve kept prices the same over the years…well below the rate of change of the average PT salary.   If you turn around five patients in two weeks like the PT in the above example did (and she’s been a PT for over 30 years!), and one of those five refers two other people to you….you do the math. 

Fact:    Ignorance is expensive to your career.  Poor ability is expensive to your employer.  Lack of results is expensive to your patients.       

“Is there anything new being taught?”   Let’s see.  Do you know… 

ü       What the cervico-thoracic ratio is and what implications it has on the shoulder?

ü        What inverse C7-T1 function is and what to do about it?

ü        If weakness in the hands is something you should be concerned about when assessing the shoulder?

ü        Why frozen shoulder is a race against time?

ü        What process maps are and how you can use them to streamline patient care?

ü       What tests differentiate any impingement vs. a full-thickness cuff tear?

ü        How to improve shoulder flexion or reduce pain with impingement signs without even touching the shoulder?

ü        Which rib has been shown to be an intrinsic cause of shoulder dysfunction and what you need to do about it?

ü        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, I’m teaching something new & you need to come to this. 

Here’s what a veteran in the field had to say: 

"My goal was to find out something new about shoulder treatment. A lot of courses are just repeats of the same old stuff.   This course opened more doors for me." 

--Joy R., PT, CHT 

“The kids…” 

They’ll like it when you’re gone…and appreciate you more when you come home!   Isn’t it great when you come home to kids (& significant others) and they’ve missed you?  If you want, you can bring them.  There are plenty of fun activities in the cities we’ll be in.  

“My employer won’t pay for it.” 

Hey, it’s your responsibility to educate and invest in yourself.  The more skilled you are, the more valuable you are.  Period.  If you’re in private practice, you better be proving your value to patients and referral sources! 

“What if it doesn’t live up to it’s ‘hype’?” 

There’s no hype here. The information is evidence-based and clinically verifiable. Don’t mistake passion for hype. Not here.     

“I feel I can return to the clinic and put these techniques to work and help my patients, and also have a systematic approach to evaluate the shoulder.”   ---K. Martin, PT 

“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 your patient’s affliction!

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. If you don’t have a belt, one will be available for purchase at the course.