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The Shoulder: An Integrated Approach to Manual Therapy and Rehab

The Shoulder: An Integrated Approach to Manual Therapy and Rehab

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CE Hours: 18

Learn Manual Therapy and Rehab of the shoulder like never before in this unprecedented online course with Dr Michael Maxwell.

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Description

This is a complete, Front-to-Back Approach to The Shoulder. You will have access to 13 chapters and quizzes with 68 modules, systematically organized to engage and enhance the learning experience. 

What You Will Learn

  • The current literature pertaining to the anatomy & function of the shoulder girdle
  • Pathologies, Injury Mechanisms, and Pathomechanisms
  • Evaluation & Management of the Shoulder in Clinical Practice
  • The rehab continuum - the fundamentals of rehabilitation and the application to the evaluation and management of the shoulder
  • Optimal Loading Strategies for the irritable, non-irritable, and degenerative patient presentations
  • Clinical Reasoning - diagnosis-based clinical decision making in a movement-based model of rehabilitation
  • How to best integrate manual therapy and rehabilitation into clinical practice to improve patient outcomes and restore function
  • How to differentiate between treating functional and structural pathology, and how to formulate a management strategy for both
  • The Developmental Model: Mobility, Stability and Movement Pattern Retraining
  • Principles of a Movement-Based Practitioner

Curriculum

Welcome!

  • Welcome to 'The Shoulder' Online Course
  • How to take this course

Chapter 1: Introduction

  • Course Notes : Chapters 1-6
  • Introduction
  • Integrating Systems & Why the Shoulder
  • Test your learning

Chapter 2: Anatomy & Function of the Shoulder Complex

  • Anatomy & Function
  • Test your learning

Chapter 3: Shoulder Complex Kinematics

  • Shoulder Complex Kinematics
  • Test your learning

Chapter 4-5: Pathologies, Injury Mechanisms and Pathomechanics

  • Primary Impingement
  • Secondary Impingement & Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain
  • Sub-Coracoid Impingement
  • Internal Impingement: Posterior Superior Glenoid Impingement
  • Four Categories of Biceps Tendon Pathology & Pulley Lesions
  • Internal Impingement: Anterior Superior Glenoid Impingement & The Story of a Misdiagnosis
  • Instability
  • Challenges in Diagnosis
  • Test Your Learning

Chapter 6: Putting it all together

  • Putting it all together
  • Test your learning

Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Shoulder in Clinical Practice

  • Course Notes : Chapter 7
  • Evaluation of the Shoulder in Clinical Practice
  • Pain Mapping of Common Shoulder Diagnoses
  • Systems to Assess / Systems to Address
  • Imaging of the Shoulder Clinical Practice
  • Test your learning

Chapter 8-12: Management of the Shoulder in Clinical Practice

  • Course Notes : Chapter 8-14
  • Management of the Shoulder in Clinical Practice
  • Clinical Presentation: Irritable
  • Clinical Presentation: Non-Irritable + Functional Competence, Movement & Motor Control
  • Test your learning

Chapter 13: Moving Differently in Pain

  • Moving Differently in Pain
  • Test your learning

Chapter 14: Clinical Presentation: Degenerative & Principles of a Movement-Based Practitioner

  • Clinical Presentation: Degenerative & Principles of a Movement-Based Practitioner
  • Test your learning

Chapter 15: Therapist Directed Mobility, Stability & Motor Control

  • Course Notes : Chapter 15
  • Therapist Directed Mobility, Stability & Motor Control
  • Test your learning

Chapter 16: Evaluation of the Shoulder (Lab)

  • Top Tier Assessment (SFMA+)
  • Range of Motion
  • Scapulohumeral Rhythm, Stability & Motor Control
  • Passive ROM
  • Supine Internal Rotation - Technique Tips
  • Internal Rotation Assessment - Lab Q&A - Patterns of Mobility in a Participant with GHJ instability
  • Thorax Rotation Assessment
  • Stability & Motor Control Assessment
  • Shoulder Symptom Modification & Manual Muscle Testing
  • Assessment of Push and Pull Patterns
  • Test your learning

Chapter 17: Exercise Rehabilitation (Lab)

  • Course Notes : Exercise Lab
  • Range of Motion Training
  • Sleeper & Horizontal Adduction Stretch
  • Mobilization of the Thorax
  • Breathing, Relaxation and Supine Sagittal Stabilization
  • Exercise Lab Q&A - Breathing Pattern Dysfunction & Excessive Tension (Example 'Patient')
  • Exercise Lab Q&A - Breathing Pattern Dysfunction & Excessive Tension (Discussion)
  • Baby Breathing & Low Kneeling
  • Low Kneeling Technique Tips
  • Exercise Lab - 5 Month Side Support
  • Technique Tip - 5 Month Side Lying
  • Low Kneeling Modifications
  • Quadruped & Tripod
  • Hand Support and Scapular Centration
  • Quadruped Demonstration
  • Exercise Lab - Coaching The Quadruped
  • Coaching The Quadruped - Technique Tips (Example 'Patient')
  • Coaching the Quadruped - Hourglass & Lumbar Flexion
  • Exercise Lab - Coaching The Tripod With Reach and Rotation
  • Exercise Lab - Coaching the Tripod with Reach & Rotation - Technique Tips
  • Exercise Lab - Modified Tripod with Reach, Rotation and Pull - Demonstration
  • Exercise Lab - Modified Bear
  • Closing Notes on Exercise Lab - Pushes, Deadlifts as a Pull, Field Goals
  • Test your learning

Chapter 18: Therapist Directed Mobility, Stability & Motor Control (Lab)

  • Sleeper Stretch
  • Sleeper Stretch Technique Tips
  • Manual Therapy Lab Q&A -Sleeper Stretch, Setup in an Unstable Shoulder
  • Horizontal Adduction & Extension-Adduction-Internal Rotation
  • Reverse Sleeper & External Rotation Mobilization
  • Discussion: Hypertonicity Limiting Function / Protective Pattern
  • Technique Tips - Maintaining Centration - Mobilization with External Rotation
  • GHJ Mobilization con Movement & End Range Mobilization
  • Lab Q&A: GHJ Mobilization con Movement & End Range Mobilization
  • Upper Trapezius, Cervical ROM Assessment & Functional Palpation
  • Technique Tips - Functional Palpation and Vector of Tension
  • Technique Tips - Functional Palpation and Vector of Tension
  • Technique Tips - Functional Palpation and Vector of Tension
  • Levator Scapulae
  • Lab Q&A - Levator Scapulae
  • Rhomboid
  • Lab Q&A - Rhomboid
  • Lab Q&A - Rhomboid
  • Anterior Thorax & PecLab Q&A - Rotation Dysfunction of Thorax
  • Lab Q&A - Anterior Rib Flare and Extension/Uprighting Restriction
  • Distal Pec Major
  • Lab Q&A - Palpation of Distal Pec Major
  • Manual Therapy Lab Q&A - Palpation of Distal Pec Major
  • Manual Therapy Lab Q&A – Why are we so specific in position & movement?
  • Serratus Anterior, Subclavius & Pectoralis Minor
  • Lab Q&A - Serratus Anterior
  • Lab Q&A - Serratus Anterior
  • Upper Serratus Anterior & Clavicular Division of Pec Major
  • Technique Tips: Upper Serratus Anterior
  • Subscapularis
  • Lab Q&A: Subscapularis
  • Lab Q&A: Subscapularis
  • Lab Q&A: Subscapularis
  • Latissimus Dorsi
  • Quadruped Rockback
  • Teres Major, Teres Minor, Infraspinatous
  • Lab Q&A: Teres Major/MinorLab Q&A: Infraspinatous
  • Manual Therapy Contacts
  • Lab Q&A: Manual Therapy Contacts
  • Long Head Triceps
  • DeltoidSub-Occipitals & Upper Cervical Mobilization
  • Test your learning

Next Steps

  • Recommendations for Future Learning

Instructor

Dr Michael Maxwell

BHK, DC

Dr. Michael Maxwell has been a fitness, health, exercise rehabilitation, and manual therapy nerd since 1998. As a personal trainer, strength and conditioning coach, kinesiologist, and Chiropractor, he has sought out key mentors, courses, and conferences to accelerate the acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary to help his clients and patients.His mission is simple: provide evidence-informed, practical and world-class continuing education featuring industry-leading clinicians, educators, and researchers, with the ultimate goal of improving the standards of patient care!Dr. Maxwell resides and practices in Victoria, BC, where he owns and operated a multidisciplinary clinic called Total Body. Outside of work you will find him with a hundred PubMed tabs open on his laptop, enjoying time with his Wife and Weimaraners, in the woods, by the ocean, or traveling all over the world as an instructor for the infamous Prague School of Rehab.