What Our Patients Need From Us

The faculty at The North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy help PTs find their creativity, enhance their clinical reasoning and fine tune their manual therapy skills. Join us for one of the upcoming continuing education courses: C-701A Advanced Lower Quadrant Integration PART A (Dallas, TX) Register September 25 – September 26, 2015 Dallas, TX Stupansky, Kathleen… Continue reading What Our Patients Need From Us

Sports Rehab Expert Interviews NAIOMT’s Angela Gordon

Eclecticism. It’s one of the things we at The North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy are truly proud of. We have skilled, experienced, practicing clinicians from a wide range of backgrounds teaching our courses and mentoring PTs in our programs. Ann Porter Hoke, for example, trained with and worked alongside James Cyriax himself, and she’ll be… Continue reading Sports Rehab Expert Interviews NAIOMT’s Angela Gordon

Functional Training: Build a Better Athlete

  Ido Portal once said that athletes reverse engineer when they are training. What does this mean? Is it good or bad?     If you are working on a power athlete for example, you use strength or power work with resistance or weight to improve overall bulk and strength of the muscles and systems.… Continue reading Functional Training: Build a Better Athlete

How More Lumbopelvic Spine Knowledge Helps PTs in the Clinic

Why should PTs develop a deeper understanding of the lumbopelvic spine? Steve Allen, PT, OCS, COMT, FAAOMPT addresses the role of evidence, shares a rewarding patient experience and expresses why a deep understanding of the Lumbopelvic is so important for PTs. Salt Lake City, UT – Feb 17-18 – Lumbopelvic Spine Seattle, WA – March 17-18 –… Continue reading How More Lumbopelvic Spine Knowledge Helps PTs in the Clinic

Beyond Techniques

Take one of these and you’ll move far beyond the PT status quo, helping a whole lot of people along the way.

3 Key Concepts to Embrace After 30

By the age of 26 I had been fighting some type of back pain for years. It had become a normal way of life. I still was able to do most of anything I wanted to until “The Day.” While replacing our garage door, I went to lift the old door when it happened, a… Continue reading 3 Key Concepts to Embrace After 30

Why Lumbopelvic Spine Matters for PTs

Why is it you should join Terry Pratt, MS, PT, COMT, FAAOMPT in Boston October 17-18 for his Lumbopelvic Spine I course? Find out in the screen cast video below! Not in New England? The North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy provides valuable PT courses for all levels all across the country. Find one near you here.

One Goal, Two Different Ways to Get There

There is a skit by comedian Michael McIntyre where he describes the difference between people leaving the house – those with kids and those without kids. Those without kids decide to leave the house and just get up put on their coats and walk out the door. And for those with kids it is about… Continue reading One Goal, Two Different Ways to Get There

Manual Therapy Video: Deep Neck Flexor Progression Part 3

In Part 3 of our Deep Neck Flexor Progression video series, NAIOMT Faculty Bryant Miller demonstrates how to utilize ligamentum nuchae for cervical stability in a HEP. Leave any questions or comments below or connect with Bryant in person at his Cervical Spine II course in Atlanta on September 19 and 20. If you’re based in another region of… Continue reading Manual Therapy Video: Deep Neck Flexor Progression Part 3

Manual Therapy Video: Deep Neck Flexor Progression Part 1

In advance of The North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy’s Atlanta, Georgia Cervical Spine II course on September 19 and 20, NAIOMT Faculty Bryant Miller demonstrates a quick clinical assessment of deep neck flexor strength in the video below. Let us know if you have any questions and take a peek at upcoming manual therapy courses in your… Continue reading Manual Therapy Video: Deep Neck Flexor Progression Part 1