The Graduate Seminar Series
Next Date: TBA
CEU/CME Credit Course (5 sessions @ 12 hrs) TBA
Presented by: The Homunculus Group, LLC
* This seminar series has been put on hold, we are developing new physician and coach/trainer DVD's, writing another textbook, and writing on-line CME courses for National University and OnlineCE.com. We have just run shy on time so for 2008 and most of 2009 this series will be on hold and under further development. If your group (15 plus individuals or more) wishes to set up a private program with us, please contact us. -Thank you !
You have heard of advanced and masters programs this past year, but we feel this is the most up to date and amazing seminar series you will attend this year. These are techniques and concepts that we use in our individual practices everyday. As a group we pride ourselves on staying on the cutting edge of manual medicine and pain management and we feel we have put together a seminar series and a few techniques that have profound affects on patients and their problems. You really cannot afford to miss this opportunity ! You are either with us, moving ahead with the latest techniques and information, or you can continue to wonder why some of your patients are not responding to care. We hope you will take the chance, we do not think you will be disappointed ! Please see our syllabus below, it should truly excite you !
Cost : $ _____ TBA for all 5 sessions ; 10% discount if paid in full ; installment plan available (non-refundable deposit to save seat, monthly remainder due 3 weeks before each session). A referral based discount program is also possible, please email us if you have inquiries about this plan.
CEU / CME Sponsor : TBA
Location : TBA
Dates : TBA
For details, please contact us.
* ATTENTION ! : Enrolment is limited into this elite course,. The first paid registrations will guarantee a seat in this series. This series will only be offered once a year. .
Registration Contact: you must email Shawn or Ivo (click here) so that we can mail you a registration form which you must fax back to 630-522-4061. Once we have your signed registration we will help you decide and settle the payment methods and options that best suit you.
Syllabus is found below.
* This Part I seminar series delves even deeper than we have in previous seminars we have given. If you enjoyed or gained much from our previous seminars, you are in for a real shocker because we were only scratching the surface. Join us as we dive deeper than ever before into the truths, myths and hard facts about gait, gait patterns, learned neurologic adaptations with gait, the lower limb, the foot and now the hip, pelvis and spine with integration concepts of the central nervous system.
We hope you will stay with us on this amazing journey as we piece this human puzzle together !
Weekend 1: (12 hours)
The Nervous System: Central, Peripheral and Functional Integration
• Introduction: The Human Machine –Competent or Incompetent Design?
• Concepts of the Primitive Nervous System- Human Evolution and Development
• Manipulating the System: Motor learning, GTO’s, M.Spindles etc.
• CNS Learning Patterns: The redundancy of the Body for Protection
• Is the design of feet optimal?
• The Difficulty with bipedalism
• Introduction to Gait and normal motor patterns
• Introduction to Abnormal Gait and Motor patterns
• * NEW Assessment methods !Static and Dynamic Foot evaluation and its role in gait
• The Lower Limb: Torsional Issues of the limb and Foot
• Introduction to Lower Limb Intrinsic and Extrinsic muscles: The Problems Within
• Introduction to Techniques to modify the CNS-sensory motor system
• Gait Cases, Movement Problem Case and Videos – Digital SportsMotion Analysis Cases
Weekend 2: (12 hours)
Gait, the Foot and the Lower Limb: Function and Dysfunction
• Review of the Central Nervous System: Its roll in motor control & therapy
• Receptors: How to stimulate and inhibit them to make immediate changes
• Clinical Foot Variations: Rothbarts Foot, Metatarsus Primus Elevatus/Supinatus, BioImplosion, Functional and Anatomic Hallux Rigidus and other Problems of the First Ray
• Anatomic and Functional Kinetic Chains (New info, not in any textbooks yet !)
• Walking Gait Analysis: Traditional and Digital Video Methods of Assessment
• Case Studies & Neurolgic Gait retraining Workshop
• Running Gait Cycles: Biomechanical events (normal and abnormal) with video breakdown
• Hands-on Workshop: Finding the Chain Problems
• The Brannock Device and Pedograph: The Next Level, using them to find the problems.
• The Leg Length Discrepancy: PART 1
Weekend 3: (12 hours)
Biomechanics of the Lower Body: Treatment, Orthotics, Shoes, Limb Length Issues
• Functional Biomechanics of the Lower Limb: Orthotic Use, Abuse and Modification
• Case Studies
• Muscular Inhibition and stabilization: How to Use them Clinically
• Understanding Orthotics: Fabrication and casting methods, NEW Problems discovered !
• Pedographs: More Use and Application to Patient Evaluation
• Shoe selection– The How & Why in Choosing the correct shoe,2007 updated research !
• Advanced Orthotic Concepts: Common Problems and Solutions, New 2007 updates !
• How orthotics, heel & sole lifts can negatively engrain/support a functional deformity.
• Leg Length Discrepancy revisited: PART 2: How to immediately change a "short leg".
• Case studies: Simple and complex lower extremity kinetic chain disorders
• Setting up your office to become a proficient foot care provider
• Hands-on Workshop analysis and evaluation: Finding the problems and Fixing them.
Weekend 4: (12 hours)
The Functional and Dysfunctional Pelvis and Lower Extremity in Movement
• The Integrated CNS: Understanding the Interplay
• “How to Beat the Brain”: Coaxing Proper Motor Learning through Receptor Changes
• The Hip and Pelvis: Evaluation and Therapeutic Implementation
• The Impairment and Glide Syndromes & Torsional “Fake Outs”
• Coxa vagla, varum, anteversion-antetorsion, retroversion-retrotorsion
• The Hip Torsonal Anomalies and their dysfunction in gait: And how to cope with them.
• Variations in intrinsic faults of sensory-motor function
• Orthotics: Good or Bad, To Use or Not to use- New concepts !
• The Importance of the Intrinsic Foot System: Gait, Pelvis and Limb Implications
• Gait and . . . : Barefoot, Ambulation, Erect Posture, & Muscular Compensations
• What you do not know, but should, about Barefoot / Unshod Ambulation.
• Ambulation: Pose, Chi Running, Traditional & Barefoot- You need to know this stuff !
• Hands on Workshop: Manual Diagnosis and Neurologic Gait Retraining
Weekend 5: (12 hours)
The Neurophysiology of joint and muscle mobilization and manipulation via inhibition and facilitation: Understanding the cause and effect of what we do.
• The pelvis and lumbar spine: Finding the problems and solving them.
• Understanding of the brain, the spine and the extremities: How to modify their function to create immediate changes in your patient’s ROM and Pain
• Use of Simple Acupuncture principles to affect motor patterns, ROM & pain
• The kinesiology of mobilization & manipulation: What you were not taught !
• Primitive reflexes, using them to your advantage in Treatment: Tonic Neck Reflex etc.
• Hands on Workshop
• Bringing it all together- The Examination Process, Case Studies, Hands-On Review
Exercises & Rehab: The Problems with our current methods
• The Examination Process: a step by step procedural hands on functional examination
• Looking for Inhibition and Functional Neurologic Upset
• Looking for fixed deficts and functional motor impairments
• How to recognize pelvic distorsion disorders including “outflares and upslips”
• Determining hip torsional variants (anatomic and functional)
• Rear and forefoot variations and deformities
• Creating a treatment plan using your new techniques
• Getting Inside your Clinical Head and Patient Discussions
• Case Studies and Treatment Approaches :
• Principles and Algorithms of Treatment: The hierarchy of treatment
• Final Written Examination: Completing the certification process.
You have heard of advanced and masters programs but this is the most up to date and amazing seminar you will take this year. These are techniques and concepts that we use in our individual practices everyday. As a group we pride ourselves on staying on the cutting edge of manual medicine and pain management and we feel we have put together a seminar series and a few techniques that have profound affects on patients and their problems. You really cannot afford to miss this opportunity ! You are either with us, moving ahead with the latest techniques and information, or you can continue to wonder why some of your patients are not responding to care. We hope you will take the chance, we do not think you will be disappointed !
The Homunculus Group
