Date: Saturday, September 20th and Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Check-In Time(s): Day One, 8:00am-8:30am; Day Two, 7:30am-8:00am
Class Time(s): Day One, 8:30am-5:00pm; Day Two, 8:00am-5:00pm
Location: Ridges Education Center; Room Willow B

Speaker(s):
Martin Sytsema, MSPT, OMPT, FAAOMPT, CIMT. Martin completed his Masters in PT from Central Michigan University. Immediately following, he completed a two year residency in orthopedic manual therapy and was awarded a fellowship in the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists in 2001. He emphasizes treatment of the whole person, looking at a variety of structures and systems that may contribute to the patient’s complaints and the abnormal biomechanics that are seen Treatment includes muscle energy, myofascial release, and a variety of other techniques. Martin is the owner of an orthopedic outpatient clinic in Spring Lake, MI.

Course Description:
Learn a clinically and anatomically based approach to Myofascial Release. We will show you how to integrate this effective tool into your daily treatment and expand the options you have to treat dysfunction. As with all of our manual therapy courses, this seminar will follow a progression of principles and reinforce them throughout the 16 hours, is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give the clinician hands-on skills they use immediately upon their return to the clinical setting.
*This course is eligible for AOTA and APTA Approved Provider credit. The assignment of AOTA or APTA CEU's does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products or clinical procedures by AOTA or APTA.*

Course Objectives:
At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:
• Demonstrate the ability to apply the rationales for doing Myofascial Release (MFR) along with its specific effects.
• Demonstrate correct hand technique, the correct grading of the level of touch, and the effects of a release and/ or unwinding.
• Demonstrate the specific techniques for MFR of the upper and lower extremities.
• Demonstrate the specific techniques for MFR of the trunk.
• Demonstrate the ability to release the different layers of fascia and when to treat each layer.

Course Agenda:
Day 1
8:00 am: Registration
8:30 am: Lecture - Techniques/Types of MFR, Anatomical Considerations, Hand Placement, Symptoms, & discussion of specific techniques
10:30 am: Break
10:40 am: Lecture, continued
11:30 am: Generalized Releases - Arm Pull, Leg Pull
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 pm: Cranial - TMD, Sub-Occipital
2:30 pm: Neck - TOS
3:20 pm: Break
3:30 pm: Shoulder - Rotator Cuff, Scaps
4:30 pm: Anterior Thorax - Pecs, Diaphragm
5:00 pm: Adjourn
Day 2
7:30 am: Registration
8:00 am: Posterior Thorax - Spine, Trapezius, Rhomboids
9:00 am: Lumbar System Pelvis - Psoas, Quadratus Lumborum, Piriformis, Sacrum
10:50 am: Break
11:00 am: Knees - Patella, IT Band
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Ankle/Feet
1:30 pm: Elbows - Medial/Lateral Epicondylitis Radial Nerve Entrapment
2:10 pm: Wrist/Hands - CTS, Dequervain’s
3:10 pm: Break
3:20 pm: Scars - Cross-Hand, Deep Technique
4:00 pm: Speed Mobs
5:00 pm: Adjourn