NAIOMT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
CORE COURSES
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NAIOMT SPECIALTY CLASSES
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Average cost per course day is $160.00
Cost will vary by location.
CORE COURSES
NAIOMT 500 Level I Differential Diagnosis
"Localizing and evaluating the site and source of pain" (42 hours)
Principles of Differential Diagnosis in Orthopaedic Manual Therapy: initiates the development of critical clinical thinking in orthopaedics and, predominantly utilizes assessment principles described by James Cyriax MD and other orthopaedic experts. This level assists the student in basic medical screening, rational differential diagnosis and selection of manual and mechanical interventions of the musculoskeletal system.
NAIOMT 600 / 610 Level II Intermediate Upper & Lower Quadrant
"Detailed manual therapy to evaluate the joint in dysfunction" (84 hours)
NAI 600 Upper Quadrant:
Intermediate Upper Quadrant: detailed biomechanical assessment and manual therapy techniques of the cervical, upper cervical and thoracic spine, shoulder girdle, elbow, wrist and hand joints.
NAI 610 Lower Quadrant:
Lower Quadrant: detailed biomechanical assessment & manual therapy techniques of the lumbar spine, the lower thoracic spine, and hip, knee, foot and ankle joints.
NAIOMT 700 / 710 Level III Advanced Upper & Lower Quadrant
"Why is the dysfunction present and what is contributing"(84 hours)
This level applies itself to the integration of information generated from the assessment and illustrates how dysfunctions, remote from the symptomatic source, may be causal or contributory (victim and culprit theories). Advanced biomechanical assessment, mobilization/manipulation and stabilization techniques are taught.
NAI 700 Advanced Upper Quadrant:
Advanced biomechanical assessment and skilled manual interventions to the lumbar and lower thoracic spine, pelvis, sacroiliac and pubic joints, hip, knee, foot and ankle joints are addressed.
NAI 710 Advanced Lower Quadrant:
Advanced biomechanical assessment and skilled manual interventions to the cervical and upper thoracic spine, shoulder, elbow, wrist & hand joints, and assessment and treatment of the temporomandibular joint.
NAIOMT 720 Clinical Reasoning in Differential Diagnosis
(14 hours- 21 hours with lab)
This advanced course will enhance the ability of the physical therapist to efficiently and accurately formulate musculo-skeletal diagnoses, utilizing familiar clinical data collection methods. The Physical therapist will be able to apply their advanced knowledge of anatomy, pathomechanics and medicine to the recognition of clusters in the clinical setting
NAIOMT 800 *Level IV Advanced Spinal Techniques
(varies--typically 42 hours)
Integration of high-velocity low-amplitude (thrust) techniques into the total patient care, with emphasis on the spine, pelvic girdle and ribs. Only students who have demonstrated an appropriate level of knowledge and skill by examination are admitted into this course.
(*Reserved for those students who have passed the NAIOMT Level III written exam, case studies, and a pre-course assesment or its equivalent. Taught only in those states that have no licensing restrictions on spinal manipulation)
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NAIOMT SPECIALTY CLASSES
NAIOMT specialty courses offer in-depth study beyond the curriculum of our core courses, focusing on different additional theory and approaches. Specialty courses generally do not have prerequisites, but please check each course for details. Below are examples of courses offered by NAIOMT. NAIOMT also co-sponsors courses given by other medical and physical therapy experts.
NAIOMT 555 Spinal Instability: efficient clinical approaches
Instructors: Ann Porter Hoke and Bill O'Grady.
This two-day lecture-demonstration workshop will review the current thoughts on clinical spinal instability, its possible etiology, efficient Physical Therapy assessment and intervention methods and communication of diagnosis and outcomes. The fourteen-hour course will include a three-hour lab session.
NAIOMT 560 Subacute MVA: efficient clinical approaches
Instructors: David Deppeler and Ann Porter Hoke.
This 2-day workshop will update the course participant on current research, intervention philosophies, and triage strategies for the patient or client in the subacute phase of whiplash-associated disorders of the cervical and thoracic region. This course attempts to answer the question, "why are some people still hurting at 6 weeks, and how can the physical therapist efficiently and effectively manage the problem?"
NAIOMT 625 Peripheral (Extremity) Manipulation
(21 hours)
This course focuses on the indications, contraindications, and techniques for high velocity, low amplitude (HVLAT) manipulation techniques applied to the peripheral joints.
NAIOMT 640 The Thoracic Spine
(14 hours)
This two-day course will focus on the thoracic region, spinal and costal joints. It will include the
performance and analysis of the selective tissue tension and biomechanical examinations and the
manual physical therapy treatment of the thoracic and costal articulations with mid and end range
mobilization. Currently available literature and evidence for examination and intervention will be
discussed.
NAIOMT 650 Medical Screening: medical and musculoskelaetal differential diagnosis including nutrition
Instructor: David Musnick, MD
This course will teach theoretical and practical medical screening for physical therapists, with emphasis on abdominal, cardiovascular, endocrine, orthopedic, oncological, pulmonary, renal, reproductive, rheumatological systems and drug side effects. The course will explore reasons for chronic pain, non-resolving spinal pain syndromes, and provide information on how nutritional supplements are being used in disease prevention and treatment.
NAIOMT 655 The Complex Patient: factors influencing pain and healing
Instructor: David Musnick, MD
This is a one day course of lecture, assessment forms and physical exam technique that will cover the factors that will lead your patients to develop or persist with Chronic pain or heal too slowly. Dr Musnick is an extremely motivating and skilled teacher and will cover the following topics including history and assessment forms and new treatment strategies:Chronic pain and Sensitization (Neurophysiology and treatments), Chronic and Neuropathic Pain topical gels and treatment, Scar Dysfunction(history, physical exam and treatment), Fibromyalgia, Fatigue Syndromes, Memory and Cognitive Dysfunction, Nutritional Considerations for Healing Musculoskeletal Tissues and Sleep Dysfunction
NAIOMT 665 Ankle and Foot
Instructor: Kathy Stupansky
A two-day course focused on the foot, ankle and tibiofibular joints focuses on differential diagnosis,manual therapy assessment and treatment, including all grades of mobilization/manipulation and reviews efficient home interventions. The course will include a review of traumatic injuries, and analysis of the need for stabilization, but orthotics will not be a focus of this course.
NAIOMT 670 Manual Therapy for the Myofascial System
Instructor: Laurie Mclaughlin
This course examines the significant role that assessment and treatment of the fascial system can play in patients with orthopaedic conditions. Current knowledge of fascial anatomy and physiology are introduced and the relevance to mechanical dysfunction explored. Manual Therapy for the Fascia involves the practical application of current knowledge in neurodynamics, myofascial release,neurophysiological treatment techniques, and manual therapy.
NAIOMT 675 Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
Instructor: Alexa Dobbs
The explanation for the symptoms of temporomandibular joint dysfunction may be mechanical or neuro-physiological, genetic or acquired. In many cases, the cervical spine is the primary source of cephalic symptoms. The focus of this discussion and practical two-day workshop will be on how to efficiently scan the potential causal systems. The practitioner will then be able to create a working hypothesis and plan of intervention.
NAIOMT 750 The Thoracic Spine: a biomechanical approach.
Instructor: Diane Lee
Research of the function of the thorax has been limited compared to research on low back and pelvis. The
principles for the Integrated Model of Joint
Function developed for the pelvis by Lee and Vleeming can be applied to the thorax and can be a good starting point for the clinican, even thought it is not yet based in scientific research. This two-day course will clinically apply all 4 levels of the
model including form and force closure, motor control and emotions and
awareness for immediate clinical application.
NAIOMT 755 The Missing Link
Instructor: Mark Looper & Ken Cole
This course will teach identification of a painful or non-painful facilitated segment via a systematic test and retest confirmation combined with scanning examination techniques to reveal how the facilitated segment can complicate the orthopaedic condition. Victim and culprit concepts of Pettman will be analyzed and related to dysfunctional movement patterns involving the facilitated segment. Specific tests will be taught to identify the potential spondylogenic cause of weakness, which sets up the extremity for dysfunction.
NAIOMT 760 The Shoulder Girdle
Instructor: NAIOMT Faculty
This two-day course is designed to review the function of the multiple structures that compose the shoulder girdle, and evaluate and differentiate the biomechanical integrity of each component. The diligent practitioner will be able to differentiate musculoskeletal from non-musculoskeltal conditions utilizing clinical tests developed in recent year, and apply innovative techniques.
This course was designed by Cliff Fowler.
NAIOMT 765 Functional Shoulder Girdle
Instructor: Erl Pettman
This three-day course teaches efficient assessment and treatment of the multiple parts of the functional shoulder girdle as normal upper quarter function is dependent on controlled motion of all its component parts.
NAIOMT 770 Post Motor Vehicle Accident Cervical Dysfunction: The First Six Months
Instructor: Jim Meadows
The assessment and management of the post motor vehicle accident patient can be very rewarding providing the critical period of the first three months is appropriately utilized by the physical therapist. This 3 day program is intended to help the therapist establish a safe, effective and progressive treatment program that is individually based and sensitive to the changes, both histological and blomechanical, in the patient due to the trauma, the treatment and the process of time. The course will emphasize the patient's pivotal role in his or her recovery as well as the judicious application of physical therapy at appropriate stages of the recovery. The course will teach the detailed anatomy, neuro anatomy, and normal and abnormal histology and biomechanics of the cervical spine and cranium as they pertain to post MVA victims, together with practical lab sessions of assessment and treatment techniques for the acute, sub acute and non acute post traumatic cervical spine.
NAIOMT 775 Headaches, Dizziness and Chronic Neck Pain
Instructor: Jim Meadows
Why is whiplash often so devastating, and why is its victim so difficult to treat? This 3-day course will attempt to discuss these issues in order that there will be safe and effective management of the long-term patient, with stalled recovery restarted and slow recovery accelerated. The course reviews the neuroanatomical and physiological basis for headache, dizziness and chronic neck pain, and teaches methods of assessment and treatment integration.
NAIOMT 780 The Pelvic Girdle: a biomechanical approach
Instructor: Diane Lee
This 2-day workshop will present an overview of the current research and clinical application thereof of function and dysfunction of the pelvic girdle. Assessment and treatment protocols, including exercise presription for instability, will follow the Integrated model of joint dysfunction originally developed by Lee and Vleeming
NAIOMT 790 The Lumbar Spine and Pelvis
Instructor: Laurie McLaughlin
This course will enhance the ability of the physical therapist to efficiently and accurately formulate musculoskeletal diagnoses of the lumbar spine and pelvis, utilizing manual physical therapy clinical data collection methods. The physical therapist will be able to apply their advanced knowledge of anatomy, pathomechanics, medicine and literature evidence to the recognition of clusters of signs and symptoms in the clinical setting and apply effective manual physical therapy and exercise techniques.
The Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip Complex: An intergrated Approach
Instructor: Diane Lee
The Lumbopelvic-hip Complex | An integrated approach is an evidence based course that
reviews the recent advances in science and presents a clinical application for assessment
and treatment based on the integrated model. This course presents a structural
framework for clinical decision making which enables the therapist to decide when and
why different treatment interventions should be applied for successful rehabilitation.
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