What is the Bowen Technique?

The Manual Medicine Group - Philippines 

is looking for people interested in getting certified for the Bowen Technique.

Date: September 17 – 20, 2010 

Trainor: Mr. Andrew Zoppos 

Modules 1 & 2 

Philippines

please send us a message if interested.

Synthesized Manual Medicine Techniques

June 25, 2010

Dear Colleagues, Partners in patient-care and pain control,

Greetings!

You are hereby cordially invited to join us for a workshop showcasing techniques that provide remarkable functional gains for your patients. These hands-on techniques fill in common treatment gaps in clinical Somatic Pain Control for the allied specialties of Physical Rehabilitation, Orthopedic Medicine, and Manual Physical Therapy.

WHAT:            Laboratory Workshop Session on 
                        Synthesized Manual Medicine Techniques

INTEGRATION WORKSHOP
Session One for 2010

Emphasis on Somatic Dysfunctions 
of the Lumbo-sacral spine and Pelvis

WHEN:            July 18, 2010, Sunday, 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. 

WHERE:          The Holiday Inn Galleria Manila, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines

PARTICIPANTS in our previous workshops have included Physiatrists, Mixed Manual Therapists, Physical Therapists, Physicians, PT Aides, and Bodywork Specialists.

We will welcome anyone brave enough to leave preconceived notions outside the door.

Primary Care Physicians, Primary Contact PTs, Physical Therapy Interns, M.D. Interns and new graduates are most welcome to join us.

Any students who cannot yet understand the real-world usefulness of Anatomy and Physiology will find our Lab Sessions to be very enlightening.

Academicians are encouraged to participate.

Clinicians are heavily encouraged to come. We would greatly welcome your immense contribution to the discussion sessions. 


There is a place where all techniques overlap. If you show us yours, perhaps we can show you another way to look at or use what you already utilize at your clinics.

Tired of doing nothing but prescribe NSAIDs for pain on your clinic days? Tired of managing GI side-effects from NSAIDs? Expenditures for treating GI side effects from NSAID use alone have been shown to comprise 46% of total expenditures for arthritis care. [Bloom BS. Costs of treating arthritis and NSAID-related gastrointestinal side effects. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 1988; 2(suppl): 131-39.] What if there was a more effective and more cost-effective way to treat body pains?

Manual Medicine is a hands-on method for pain control and functional gains. It fills in a huge gap in a medical practice that already heavily utilizes NSAIDS, muscle relaxants, opiates, and pain modulators. 

Your workshop will feature a synthesized approach for functional physical rehabilitative gains. It was designed with feedback from clinical manual therapists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, and Allopaths.

This is meant to be a sharing of techniques and concepts. Think of it as a technology transfer. We hope, with your help, to engender an evolution in this field of medical and paramedical practice.

This workshop module will feature established evidence-based techniques as well as revolutionary new clinic and case-proven techniques that can almost instantly result in the elimination of pain. We have also seen significantly measurable gains in joint mobility, ROMs, muscle strength, and general sense of patient well-being.

Thank you so much for hearing us and for paying keen attention to how we might help each other.

Toward the Evolution of Clinical Practice,

Sincerely,

Flynn Sedayon, PTRP

Rheysonn Cornilla, PTRP

Strix Toledo, M.D.

www.manualmedicine.blogspot.com

rheysonn_cornilla@yahoo.com

Why learn manual medicine?

1.          This early in the game, you already know that modalities and meds have their limits. That’s true, isn’t it? What if you had the answer in your hands?

2.           If you love instant and almost magical results, you’ll love what you’ll learn with us.

3.        If you do not learn this stuff, any of your colleagues that can ablate pain in one session might accidentally injure     your practice.

4.           If you’re a PT who’s going to stay in the Philippines by choice, why not up your game and level-up the field?

5.        If you’re a PT leaving for abroad to work, are you willing to settle for a pay grade lower than that of those skilled in manual therapy? Also, Isn’t the APTA striving for justifiable PT-Physician independence?

Why us?

1.             We're the people you see in the clinics and in the field. We have a functional-outcomes-based practice that works. We are paid by private patients and the United States (in the Philippines!) for manual medicine care that meets TRICARE and Medicare-USA standards. If not anything else, could we trade stories and experience with you?

2.           We like good results. We like sending patients home better. We don’t like seeing patients for perpetual sessions that go nowhere. When you hear from our patients that we “fixed them in one sitting” for something that has taken them 18 sessions elsewhere to not significantly improve, you’ll understand that they weren’t exaggerating. We’re just saying it’s possible. Aren’t you at least curious enough to have a look? Plus, isn’t it really hard to argue with jaw-dropping results?

You’re invited!

The MMG is asking if anyone else is interested 

In learning Hands-On Techniques

For turning off pain?

Workshop / Sharing Session

Manual Medicine
Integration I (Series of 2010) 

A Crash Course
on Everything Manual Therapy 

A Primer on
Hands-On Pain Relief

on July 18, 2010

Holiday Inn Galleria Manila
1 ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines

10 am to 3 pm

Minimum Learning Outcome:

There's an Articulatory technique for everything.

Understanding the ROM arc and how to maximize it

gives you one of the most powerful and safe tools 

for Somatic Pain Relief.

Depending on how much everyone can digest,

your workshop will feature:

Hands-on Treatment Paradigms for:

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome 

Cervical Radiculopathy

LBP Syndromes

Lumbar Radiculopathy

Myofascial LBP

Facet Joint Dysfunctions

Lumbar Canal Stenosis

CFS

Fibromyalgia 

Migraine Headaches

Tendinitides

Joint Stiffness

Repetitive Strain Injuries

Cervicogenic and Myofascial Headache 

Temporo-mandibular Joint Dysfunction

Facial Pain and Giddiness

Whiplash Injury

Anterior Neck Syndrome

Compressive Neuropathy Upper Limb

Upper Crossed Syndrome

Postural and Habitual Deep Muscle Tension

Degenerative Cervical Spine and Cervical Radiculopathy

Rotator Cuff Lesions

Adhesive Capsulitis

Lateral and Medical Epicondylitis

Wrist Tendinitis

Patello-Femoral Pain Syndrome

Patellar tendinitis

Calf and heel pain

Forefoot pain

Leg pain in athletes

Compressive Neuropathies of Lower Extremity

&

Clinical Rationale 
and Demonstration of techniques for:

Trigger Point Therapy

Spray and Stretch

Acupuncture and Micro-Needling

Integrated Neuromuscular Inhibition Therapy

Myofascial Release

Muscle Energy Techniques

Strain Counterstrain Approach

Positional Release Techniques

Active Glide Releases

Proprioceptive Feedback incorporation

Neurofascial Mobilization

Dural Mobilization

Cranial Mobilization Techniques

Plus!

An approach to Non-HVLA 

SPINAL ALIGNMENT.

Cost-Sharing:   On-site Registration: P2,500

                        Until July 07, 2010: P1,500; Until July 09: P1,700; Until July 14: P1,900 

                        Until July 03, 2010: P2,000; Until July 16: P2,300

Discounts:         P500 off for anyone who’s ever done a workshop with us.

                         P500 also waived for SOMATIC members.

                         P500 Discount for Published and Syndicated Media Personnel. 

                         Foreign registrants, please email us first.

Local Government Sponsorship is heavily encouraged.

Taxes:  Non-participating attendees are requested to bring pizza and popcorn so they have something to do while they watch.

Special Notes: 
1. Practice of certain techniques will require the valid professional license of at least one senior team member or physician.

2. Participants are requested to do a vertebro-basilar artery screening before volunteering for end-range cervical techniques. 

Slots are limited. The limits to what you can learn aren’t.

God bless you, and may you prosper.

Flynn Sedayon, PTRP

Rheysonn Cornilla, PTRP

Strix Toledo, M.D.

www.manualmedicine.blogspot.com

rheysonn_cornilla@yahoo.com

Manual Medicine Integration Workshop in Philippines on July 04 2010

The MMG would like to thank everyone who's joined us during the first seven workshops for 2010.

Thank you for your trust in us, and in yourselves.

We sincerely hope you move the profession forward.

Last sunday we learned:
1. Parasympathetic Reboots via RDTs for the sub-occipitals, traps, masseters, rotator cuff, nuchal ligament.
2. Sympathetic alignment techniques
3. Mesenteric plexi reset "tornado three"
4. Sphincteric Reset for the "three stars and a Sun"
5. advanced "strain-counterstrain" for the Viscera
6. Lumbo-sacral-pelvic positional releases and the articulatory maximization thereof
7. important checkpoints for integrative assessments
8. how to use Zink patterns for identifying primary pathologies
9. how to use a connecting hold for determining the primary pathology between two areas or points (and so on..)
10. that everything connects,
11. Structural Integration and Postional Release can be used on everything
12. and that Reflexes can and must be assessed.

It's good to recap that:
1. exercises still have strong utility in pain management
2. TENS is as good as placebo for every usage other than for neuropathic pain.
3. Placebo is at least as good as "the box."
4. we should all have a referral system we can trust
5. Evidence shows us that we can't rely on a purely postural-structural-biomechanical model for understanding and treating somatic pain
6. If it isn't fun, it likely isn't Harmonic.
7. If it isn't at least in part Harmonic-Reflexive-Proprioceptive-NMF, the results of your manual therapy are not likely to hold.
8. If new technologies eventually prove us wrong, that would be great. We then learn whatever works better.
9. It's time-efficient to use what is useful, and to discard what is not.

With RDTs and Structural Induction, we now also understand that virtually every valid hands-on diagnostic technique can now be turned into a treatment tool.

That's it for now.
God bless you.
See you soon.

anyone interested in another workshop  before we wind up this half of the year?

next Manual Medicine workshops: 

Manual Medicine Integration Workshop 
Pasig City, Philippines; on July 04 2010

Venue:

Holiday Inn Galleria Manila
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines

Location Information

Visit these key urban areas and tourist attractions located within proximate distance from the hotel:

• Shopping malls – Robinson’s Galleria, SM Megamall, Shangri-la Mall, The Podium, Gateway Mall, Greenhills Shopping Center
• Medical City
• Makati Central Business District
• Wack-wack Golf Course
• Fort Bonifacio Global City
• World Trade Convention Center

Location Map

Holiday Inn Galleria Manila
1 ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center
Pasig City 1655
Philippines

Out-of-town Workshops:
July 11, 25, 2010

Bacolod, Bicol.

Technical Integration

for Somatic, Neuromyofascial, and Visceral Manipulation

contact Rheysonn, okay?

Workshop: Manual Medicine: Autonomics, Session I

You are cordially Invited to a Skills Lab Workshop:

Manual Medicine: Autonomics

Session I

Date and Time: June 20, 2010; 10 am to 3 pm

Venue:

Holiday Inn Galleria Manila
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines

ADB Avenue, Back of the Galleria Mall at Ortigas

Working Theme:
Autonomics, Nerves, and Resets


Workshop Flow: 
AM: 
An Autonomic Basic Reset Technique
Mesenteric Reset
Occipital Compression
Sub-occipital Tracking
Integrating The Therapeutic Pulse
PM: 
Neuromyofascial Techniques for:
1. The Shoulders
2. Low Back

Pre-requisites for Participants:

1. Know basic anatomical landmarks and have some notion of a biomechanical model.
2. Know principles of Fascial Mobilization.
3. Have a basic clinical biomechanical assessment system. 

Introduction:
The Autonomic Nervous System is the Background hardware that keeps us running safely.
It houses our reflexes and gives rise to our protective mechanisms.
It is linked to what is termed "the Unconscious Mind."
Here is where our survival mechanisms, hopes, wants, dreams & drives are keyed in.
So, How do we affect the Autonomics?
How can we shift the balance back to the coveted "Rest and Recovery" State?
How do we engender homeostasis?

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Further Inquires and Registration 

may be directed through:

Rheysonn Cornilla +6329227914724

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Participant Notes:

This is a free online resource meant to reward visits to out weblog. The author maintains copyright.

A Full Spinal Release Protocol

Test Zink preferences

Segmental Push Test for instability

Location of the Primary Dysfunction

Optional:

Other biomecahnical tests for instability

Leg Length Discrepancy assessment

Sacrum:

Therapeutic Pulse assessment, prone

Innominate Rotation Therapeutic Pulse for the LS Junction

Supine Sacral Drift

Prone Sacral Caudal Drift

Sidelain Innominate Rotation Correction

Lumbosacral Junction:

Flexion / Extension Artriculatory

Harmonic Releases

Thoracolumbar and Cervico-Thoracic:

Soft Tissue General Releases: Bayliss-modified and Harmonic

Spinal Dysfunction Defacilitation:

Iliopsoas-Quadratus Positional Releases

Low Back Reflexive De-afferentation Technique Sequence

Upper Back R.D.T.s (Reflexive De-afferentation Technique)

Segmental Muscle Energy Technique and Positional Releases\

Lumbosacral Spine:

Decompression

Nerve Root Mobilization

Craniocervical:

Vault Compressions, Direct, strong

Lateral vault Balancing

Fronto-occipital Balancing

Cranial Reflexive Zones

Sub-occipital Releases

Right Frontal Lobe Induction Technique

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Further Inquires and Registration

may be directed through:

Rheysonn Cornilla +6329227914724

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Manual Medicine: Autonomics

Session I

Date and Time: June 20, 2010; 10 am to 3 pm

Venue:

Holiday Inn Galleria Manila
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines

Location Information

Visit these key urban areas and tourist attractions located within proximate distance from the hotel:

• Shopping malls – Robinson’s Galleria, SM Megamall, Shangri-la Mall, The Podium, Gateway Mall, Greenhills Shopping Center
• Medical City
• Makati Central Business District
• Wack-wack Golf Course
• Fort Bonifacio Global City
• World Trade Convention Center

Location Map

Holiday Inn Galleria Manila
1 ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center
Pasig City 1655
Philippines

Hands-on Pain Relief Workshop: Autonomics, Nerves, and Resets

Workshop for Manual Medicine
June 20, 2010
10 am to 3 pm
Venue: AICA at Pasig City Philippines
www.aicaculinary.com


Autonomics, Nerves, and Resets
With Case Studies on:
Shoulders
Low Back

"Changes happen 

when we open our heart 

and go 

against everything 

we're used to doing, 

including our prejudices."

"los cambios 

suceden cuando abrimos el corazon 

y vamos 

contra todo 

lo que soliamos hacer, 

incluyendo los prejuicios"

(Paulo Coelho 07/06/2010)

The Autonomic Nervous System is the Background hardware and software that keeps us running safely.
It is also connected to what is termed 
"the Unconscious Mind."
Here is where our survival mechanisms, hopes, wants, dreams & drives are keyed in.
How do we affect the Autonomics?
How can we shift the balance back to the coveted "Rest and Recovery" State?


Among other topics, this Sharing Session aims to cover:
An Autonomic Basic Reset Technique
Mesenteric Reset
Occipital Compression
Sub-occipital Tracking
The Therapeutic Pulse

By request from returnee participants, Some time will also be lent to the Shoulders and Low Back.

Be a Fan. Join us! Look for 
Master Rheysonn Cornilla 
on Facebook.


Cost-sharing:
prepaid until June 9 - Php 777
until June 11 - 888
until June 16 - 1088
until June 18 - 1288
Late Reg and On-Site: 1488


Please photocopy deposit slips,
scan and email to us.


please send us your names and titling as they
should appear on your certificates.


anyone with pending certificates or corrections, 
please email me directly at
strixmd@yahoo.com


Stay blessed.