Comprehensive Orthopedic Differential Assessment for Professional Bodyworkers
Coda (Italian for "tail"; from the Latin cauda,), in music, is a passage which brings a movement or a separate piece to a conclusion through prolongation. To quote Charles Burkhart (2005) "...often an expanded phrase, is often created by the "working [of] an idea through to its structural conclusions" and that after all this momentum is created a coda is required to "look back" on the main body, allow listeners to "take it all in", and "create a sense of balance."
In bodywork, to evaluate a client's condition using a unique and highly defined skill set that enables a therapist to better focus their treatment protocol, thereby shortening the client's overall recovery time "by the working of an idea through to its structural conclusions."
Comprehensive Orthopedic Differential Assessment is a non-modality based seminar that gives therapists of any discipline a new set of tools and techniques by which they can better interview and evaluate both new and existing clients.
This seminar will cover a simple yet highly focused interview technique that allows the therapist to begin to develop a "comprehensive differential assessment". Three anatomical sections of the human body will be given an overview. In each section, tissue structure, regional anatomy and surface anatomy will be reviewed in order to provide a foundation for specific pathologies to be presented. Then standardized orthopedic tests related to the pathologies will be demonstrated. These tests can be used to validate or invalidate the comprehensive differential assessment.
Comprehensive Orthopedic Differential Assessment will be presented in an interactive, highly enjoyable format by two instructors with over thirty years of combined teaching experience, Kevin Ryan, a former Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, and Scott Dobbins, a clinically based LMT that holds certifications in The Myofascial Release Massage and Precision Neuromuscular Therapy.
