Manual Medicine Workshop / Sharing Session: "CERVICAL & BEYOND" February 21, 2010

YES! This is an invitation!

First off, depending on whether Dionne approves of the idea, we hope to have a 40-minute freebie on February 21, 2010:
9:15 am to 10 am: "Updates in Manual Medicine"
Cost: FREE. Option to bring us coffee if you'd like to.
Partial Advanced Reading Online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_energy_technique

After that we continue with what we like best:
What: Manual Medicine Workshop (a Sharing Session)
What the f.... is that?:
How to turn of pain & fix body glitches with your hands.
When: Feb 21, 2010; 10 am to 3 pm, with some leeway for the string of questions that kick in after we know enough to ask better and better questions.
Where: Pasig City, Philippines. AICA at Captain Henry Javier Avenue, Skyway Twin Tower 2. Pasig City, Philippines. Next to Valle Verde Country Club. Near Bagaberde. We are at: http://www.aicaculinary.com
Why: Evolution is calling. We like people. Sharing is good.
Also: We'd rather demo than debate.
Remember to RSVP!: Dionne is at (+63) 905 426 9496.

Ideal Audience:
Practicing Manual Therapists, Doctors progressing into Soft Tissue and Neural Work.


"There are no problems we cannot solve together,
And very few that we can solve ourselves."
(Lyndon Johnson, Former US President)

This is a call to our Colleagues, almost a plea.

I heard a German Quote last year which translates roughly to:
"How you shout into the forest
Determines the echo you get."

So we shout: Help us evolve this healing field.

I think it was the hockey sensation Wayne Gretzky that said:
"Invariably, The Goals I never make are those I never take."

Why not do in minutes what others do in sessions or follow-up days?!

Session I-b (February 21, 2010)
Rapid-Reflexive De-afferentation Techniques:
(R.D.T.) Foundation Techniques Dissected
Tech Base: Neuromyofascial, Muscle-Energy Techniques, Positional Releases.
The Head, Neck, and Jaw in Focus

Advanced Reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_energy_technique

The Point:
We would suggest as a personal Goal for everyone (on top of their own goals) after proper completion of this session: Be able to treat headaches in minutes (sometimes in seconds!)

Evolving Outline:

Notions / Theories:
1. How to use Bayliss Collapse / Engagement to determine local versus distal / compounded bony locks.
2. How cervical locks differ from other subluxations.
3. The Therapeutic pulse and how to use it.
4. Tracing vectors as a way of noticing Neuromyofascial Full-Body Unwinding.
5. Descriptions of the Cranial Mechanism (Interactive, Participant-based Sub-session)
6. Introduction to "Brain and Beyond" Techniques.
7. Neurologic Integration:
How to fit in Neural Sliders
How to use Reflexes as a treatment tool (Introduction to the Reflexive De-afferentation Technique Paradigm)
8. Protocols and how to dissect and modify them: (the "Inglorious Basterds" Paradigm)
9. RDT checkpoints
10. Parasympathetic Reboots
11. The Still Point and Beyond
12. Identifying the primary biomechanical pathology

Individual Techniques:
1. Cervical Rotation taken into flexion-extension cycles; active nodding; side-bending. Compare with pre-harmonic patterns.
2. Spaceman / Floatation Unwind, Supine. Can you imagine what it would be like to let your patient's body guide you into its own healing mode?
3. Mandible Disconnection from Cervical Back-bending. Biomechanics meets Proprioception.
4. The Non-surgical Facelift
5. Upper Masseter Intra-oral
6. Maxillary Lift
7. Epicranial Aponeurosis Release (CI: lateral Sphenoid Wing Compression)
8. Cranial Vector Releases:
AP
L,R
Fronto-Occipital
Diagonals L>R, R>L
Occipital L-R
9. Cranial-sacral dural release posterior hookup
10. Posterior cervical wedging, advanced, RRDT modifications
11. Cervical FB-BB in rotation, supine; Facet opener variations and LVLA openers
12. Cervical side-bending in rotation, supine
13. Multistack unwind (ever seen Eight Degrees of Freedom?), focal, vector-locking openers
14. Digastric release
15. Masseter release, local, direct, external-internal
16. Palatal arch-basing
17. Maxillary anterior lift
18. Galea aponeurosis & aponeurotic releases
19. Disconnecting jaw drop from cervical backward-bending
20. Laryngeal anterior release

NOTE that Content of proposed Session I-b above may change at any time, without prior notice, and may be modified by how many participants are present, and how much good coffee we've had.
Yes, that's a hint! Bring coffee. Bring food. (We’re at the A.I.C.A. this time)
Bring more coffee.

Cost-sharing for this Practice Upgrade Investment:
For those who register / commit to participate during the
February 21, 2010 Seminar-Workshop
Manual Medicine: Going Beyond Cervical Treatments
An Introduction to Scope, Synthesis
And Clinical Bases of Reflexive De-afferentation Techniques
(An Overview of Manual Medicine Techniques)

The following cutoff dates and corresponding fees apply:
Date of registration: cost share:
Up to December 29, 2009: P500 (closed, thank you)
Up to January 31, 2009: P555 (closed, thank you)
Up to February 07, 2010: P777 (closed, thank you)
Up to February 14, 2010: P888 (Slots limited. Book now or forever hold your peace.)
February 15 onward: P1,200
On-site: P1,555
And if you think we should really charge what we think this material is worth, please bring a few hundred dollars so we can get really good food for the workshop!
Regret that free slots are already taken.
Here’s the deal, though:
If you bring in 4 new registrants, we’ll count you in for the incredibly low price of ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Yes, we are essentially rewarding (1) early commitment and (2) a sharing of this evolving technology.
Many already understand that this is valuable information we're sharing. The techniques themselves are, in practice, invaluable.
Still, some people do not value what comes free. Yes, we know you're not like that. You know what we mean. So they are also most welcome to register late. And anyone who registered early is still most welcome to bring enough pizza for a baranggay. Or coffee. Or both. My cat likes Whiskas Ocean Fish Flavor. Yes, she asked me to tell you that. The rest of this post is very serious.

You now know how to use the Therapeutic Pulse.
Next up: How do you maximize that gift?

GUARANTEED RESULTS!
Simple, straight, no-B.S. 100% Refund Money-back Guarantee:
Take the techniques you get from this into the clinics, into your patient's homes.
If you don't make up your money in professional fees from using at least one of the techniques here, we'll refund your money.
Experiment. Try it for eighty days. Use it! Prove us wrong! If, in that time, you have not recovered your costs because the techniques have not worked (one possible reason: whatever you DO NOT TRY does NOT WORK. Laziness voids offer.)
Next, if you have ANY technology that works better, faster for any of the indications we overlap technologies with, we'll refund your money, and pay you to show us what you have!

P.S.:
If this Challenge feels rude,
Who is it that's reacting?
If you have any resistance to this,
Why is that?

Ever notice how peak moments and life-changing events can be scary right before you get a grip on them?


WHERE IS EVERYONE'S REGISTRATION DATA?
To confirm registration, please leave a note with your nearest coordinator, to be forwarded to Dionne with your coordinator's endorsement, with the following data:
1. Your name, designation, institution, position occupied or maintained
2. A brief statement declaring why you're attending
3. The names of your two study-buddies
4. A brief list of what you already know, what you're certified to practice, and what you have mastery of.
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TURN AWAY ANYONE WHO DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THIS REQUEST. This also lets us free us your seat to others who are raring to join us. Did we mention we overbooked early?
P.S., We truly are sorry. ["I am sorry."(Philippine political figure)] While certificates will be issued, if you are merely looking for a piece of paper to stuff your portfolio or crowd your wall with, please offer your slot to any colleague you believe will more benefit from this. Your understanding with regard this matter is much appreciated.


ATTIRE:
Please come in either loose, comfortable clothing (anything easily removable is preferred) or in thin, body hugging clothing (no neoprene dive suits or Gortex body armor).


EQUIPMENT:

Please bring a large towel. One neuro hammer per group would be useful. One goniometer per group would be great. Those who prefer to bring along an anatomy atlas will be most welcome to do so. One skin marker or eyeliner pen per group may prove useful. One small, thin, long towel (Barbero towel) would be useful as well. A skin marker or eyeliner per group would be very useful for newbies.


SUGGESTED WORKSHOP FORMAT:

Preferably, three people will be assigned per group / table / plinth. They will alternate roles: patient, practitioner, and preceptor. This enables each participant to see each technique twice in their own time. Corrections and adaptations may be incorporated during each second demo.

Group numbers will be assigned. Each group will rotate a member at the main demo table at the front of the class at the start of each new technique demo. That group's two other members come closest to the main table to observe and ask questions re each new technique. This enables each group of three to become the resource persons for at least one technique. They can then proceed to master that technique and pass it on. They are thus encouraged to learn each technique they are decked to a degree worthy of peer review and learning. One or more groups may thus, over time, pass their mastered technique onto others. This will also engender a collaboration between colleagues (and perhaps between institutions), who may choose to meet to master each other's sets in between workshops. They are encouraged to pass on well-mastered techniques to uninitiated colleagues.

As in life, these are mere suggestions. (They do, however, make the ride much more worthwhile.)


(Per request, this is now starting to look like a manual! That's a hint, colleagues! Anyone want to volunteer to have their name printed as a co-author on a manual?)


One of the best ways we know of
to get out of a rut
is amazingly simple:
ASK GOOD QUESTIONS.
So,
Here’s a little attempt at that.

Have you ever walked away from a workshop remembering nothing?
Have you ever walked away from a workshop with a bunch of techniques and no idea how they all fit?
Are you regularly using techniques from the last few workshops you've been to?
Have you ever wanted to design your own workshop?
If you could do things better, what would you do?

It's happened to us, so we're asking.
And now we're asking you.
Help us do this better.
Help us so this works for you.



Paraphrased from the Late Pope John Paul II:
"This is one way,
not necessarily
THE way."

WHAT IS YOUR WAY, and where does it lead?


May you be blessed abundantly in every way.

See you at the Sessions.

Yours in the Evolution of Manual Medicine,