Thoracic Spine and Thoracic Cage Manual Manipulation / Therapy / Medicine

Workshop outline:

1) Basic neurolinguistic programming
a) semantics / language
b) Engendering Rapport
2) Thoracic Spine and Rib Somatic Dysfunction Findings, Diagnoses, and Documentation.
a) Spinal Dynamics and Fryette’s Laws
b) Localization of Eases and Restrictions
i) Thoracic spine
ii) Thoracic cage
c) Ignored Anatomy and Nociceptive Checkpoints for the Hypersympathetic Response
d) The head and neck as a treatment lever for the thoracic spine

3) Treatment approaches.
a) Functional Ease Techniques and Multiplanar Ease Stacking (Thoracic Spine)
i) definition.
ii) indications
iii) contraindications
iv) demo / ret demo
b) METs and MET variations, including multi-planar METs
c) RDTs
i) Definition / bases / principles for technique formulation
ii) RDT Parasympathetic Ablation Methods II and III
d) Myofascial Releases / Gentle Soft-tissue Techniques
e) Bowen Relaxation Moves for the Back
f) Inhibitory techniques
i) Strain-counterstrain techniques as a mode of ease
ii) Direct Inhibition / Progressive Compression techniques
g) Cavitation techniques
(1) HVLA
(2) Non-thrust cavitation
h) Dorn Method Techniques for the T-spine
i) OMT Procedures for the Thoracic cage
j) Technique Synthesis