Hands-on Pain Relief Workshop

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

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.

Contact:    Rheysonn +632 922 791 4724 rheysonn_cornilla@yahoo.com

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.

The Workshop Director is an Author, NLP Master-Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Pain Management Consultant, SASTM Practitioner, and the owner of a cat smarter than he is. Uncle Sam has been paying for his hands-on interventions since 2005.

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.

3. This learning field will be multifocal: you will get to see what the newbie sees, get to do what the intermediates do, and get to refine your skills from the perspective of those who have advanced in these techniques.

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

Primary Care Physicians, Primary Contact PTs, Physical Therapy Interns, M.D. Interns and new graduates are most welcome to join us. Clinicians are heavily encouraged to come. Academicians are encouraged to participate. We would greatly welcome your immense contribution to the discussion sessions. 

Backgrounder:

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.] Tired of doing nothing but prescribe NSAIDs for pain on your clinic days? Tired of managing GI side-effects from NSAIDs? 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.

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

God bless you, and may you prosper greatly!

Towards an Evolution in Pain Management,

Flynn Sedayon, PTRP

Rheysonn Cornilla, PTRP

Strix Toledo, M.D.

www.manualmedicine.blogspot.com

Disclaimer:

This workshop is not meant to replace good clinical judgment and experience. Participants are meant to practice within the bounds set by their individual and institutional licenses, their certifications, and their experience. When in doubt, it is always best to secure clearance from your team physician.

P.S.: Please help us make this workshop better by providing us feedback re this question:

"What aspects of Manual Medicine / Manual Therapy / Physical Rehabilitative Manipulation would you be most interested in?"

• Neuromyofascial Mobilization Techniques
• Connective Tissue Mobilization Techniques (Active Releases, Passive Releases, Tool-Assisted Releases)
• Nerve Mobilization Techniques
• Muscle Energy Techniques
• Positional Release Techniques
• Harmonic Releases
• Neuro-muscular Rehabilitation
• Cranial Therapies
• "Brain and Beyond" Techniques
• Cranial Nerve Releases
• Structural Tensegrity Techniques
• Visceral Mobilization
• Organ and System Motility and Treatment Techniques
• Medical Acupuncture
• Trigger-Point Elimination
• Local and Intra-articular Infiltration Techniques (saline, steroids, hyaluronate)
• Medical Neurolinguistic Programming
• Medical Hypnosis
• Medical Coding. SOAPing, and Billing.
• Thrust Techniques
• The Bowen Technique
• Articulatory Techniques
• (R.D.T.) Foundation Techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive_antagonism
• T.E.N.S. http://manualmed.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50

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"I honestly don't get tired of what I do" (anonymous manual medicine practitioner)

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."(Arthur C. Clarke)

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.

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

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

"Get used to the idea right away that no single system can or should claim to have an exclusive fix on the dynamics of health." [Mendelsohn M.D.]

It's really funny to have wonderful critics who are still stuck in the box. We're in awe. Their amazing intuition and insight allows them to judge posthaste what they have not seen before. Wow. I wish i could evaluate postural dysfunctions that fast. [Kat, RDT Practitioner]

"Take what is useful, discard what is not." (Parapharased from Mas Omaya)

"You're in the Right place and time. Bottom line is that with the skills that I acquired from MMG helped me a lot that in adjusting to my work"(Harold B. Cacao, PTRP)