Integrative Manual Medicine: Is it just manual therapy?

Up to 80% of how good we get with whatever skills we have is actually linked to mindset, psychology, what we believe.

I know some people will want to attempt to disagree with me on these stats. They'll say that they're fabulously skilled and that the results they get are great. Ok, sure. Pretending we believe them completely, the only way they could have gotten to that level of skill is still linked to their beliefs. If they never stuck it out with learning what they had to learn, they'd get nowhere.

If you know how to do something
but believe you're crap at it,
or if you believe your skillset is bull,
well, that's reflective
of the kind of results
you'll often get.


So, yes, it's in the beliefs, the mindset.

Now, how many manual therapy / manual medicine / physical therapy / chiropractic / osteopathic workshops have you been to that give you insight into useful mindset? We're asking because we're curious.

Why use Hands-on Mind-Body Techniques? 
free Report download! click link above.
how-to-turn-off-pain-with-your-hands?

Workshop on Low Back Pain Resolution

on April 11 2010 at The Academy at Pasig City, Philippines

We're asking because beliefs are like four-legged tables. It takes four demonstrations that something works for you to actually beleive it works. It takes four distinctions before you can actually strongly defend your beliefs against scrutiny by anyone who crawls out of the hole.

May we humbly suggest that
That's what workshops should give you: four legs of belief.

That'll give you the belief set and confidence to keep you going.

That sets you off on the way to excellence.

CAVEAT:
This is about your experience.
Demand your table legs!

EVER RIDDEN A ROLLER-COASTER?
This is about your ride.
Do you choose to be fearful
of incredibly excited?

THIS IS NOT A SEMINAR.
It's a workshop.

YOU CAN NOT BE AN "ATTENDEE."
You are a participant.

AND IF THIS POST MAKES YOU EMOTIONAL,
Why is that?

Manual Medicine Workshop on Low Back Pain on April 11, 2010

"We should all now look at the research 

and ask the question:

what does it have to do with clinical practice?" 

[Howard (D.O.)]

---------------------------------------

The Manual Medicine Group cordially invites physicians and physical therapists with a keen interest in "what works" in Physical Rehabilitation to see what current mainstream  

Manipulation and Mobilization Techniques 

can do to enrich their clinical practice.

A "Sharing Session" / Workshop on

Hands-On Solutions to Lumbosacral and Pelvic Somatic Dysfunctions

April 11, 2010; 10 am to 3 pm.

at the A.I.C.A. at Pasig City, Philippines. 

 ---------------------------

"Once you graduate and practice in a clinic, you are put in a shell and everything you do is restricted and routinary, so you lose the use of your head and u actually forget a lot of the useful things that you should actually know."

[RC, a Manual Medicine Practitioner]

"They're nuts!"

Click here to see how dangerous these people are!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

It's been said that The two hardest things for a person to do are:

1. Ask for help

2. Change

The fact that you're here tells us that you want more, and that you're willing to make changes necessary for you to get better results. Or maybe we're wrong?

----------------------------------------------------------------

The last intensive hands-on 

Low Back Pain Resolution Workshop
lasted two days (check it out!), and was an attempt on doing something that usually covers 
two weeks 
in just two days.

Now, how do you suppose we do that in one day?

Also, we don't much enjoy doing what we've already done before. We don't really mind. There's just too much material to share.

So, will you please help us specify and limit topics or that day?

Otherwise, we'll do his full MMG-style:

Ask all you can, demo all you can.

Buffet for the brave. 
And 
sure, we can take it "slow."
-----------------------

Turn off Pain? Click here to learn more!

Are you ready to run out of excuses?

There's stuff here for everyone: 

the newbie, the intermediates, the advanced, and the full-blown MMG.

Scared? Or just excited-nervous?

It's cool. Everyone's friendly.

--------------------------

April 11, 2010.

See you at the

The Academy in Pasig.

Yes, we share grounds at The Philippines' Finest Cooking School. Click here for address.

Call Time is Ten a.m. We usually start before that. We formally end at 3pm.
We have a long history of extending the sharing sessions, not from delays,
but because we share as much as you can handle.

This is all mainstream. This isn't "Complementary and Alternative" stuff. The science is sound.

What's fictional is the use of TENS for everything other than neurologic pain.

Just so the seizures stop,

let us say that 
research shows that 

HMP and exercises

still hold evidence-based usefulness in Physical Rehabilitation. 

This Session is best served with the right exercise prescriptions. May we suggest you look up our friends at: Postural and Functional Exercise Workshop on April 17 and 18, 2010.

Dionne's in charge of accepting committments
for April 11, 2010.

She's at: (63)905 426 9496

We strongly suggest that participants

Please bring a towel, 

loose or repositionable clothing, 

and a pillow.

Legal disclaimers:

Participants are expected to work within the limits of their certifications and licensures.

Initial Clinical practice is best supervised by a colleague advanced 

in the techniques you wish to use.

When in doubt, seek clearance 

from your M.D. or D.O.

This is not a seminar.

We are not a recruitment agency.

We endorse no political parties or personalities.

-------------------

What's really strange is that people don't value what comes free. So, we're asking for a minimal overhead cost-sharing. If we were to charge you what it took us to learn this stuff, that cost would be in the several thousand dollars range, compounded by innumerable hours.


Cost sharing for this clinical practice upgrade session is ridiculously low.
Settled by:           Cost-share:
March 19, 2010: 555 (Confirmed Participants: 10 P.T./M.D.)
March 24, 2010: 777 Registration closed
March 26, 2010: 888 Registration closed
March 31, 2010: 999
(Confirmed participants to date: 25)April 05, 2010: P1,200 (Registration ONGOING. Limited seats available.)
April 06, 2010: P1,300


April 07, 2010: P1,400
April 08, 2010: P1,500
April 10, 2010: P1,600
April 11, 2010 (On-site): P1,700
Foreign Registrants, please wire us for group and individual rates.

--------------------------------

Comments, suggestions, seizure-reactions? We're at 1011, the MATI, the Medical City Ortigas. Say hi!

---------------------------

We're also hearing rumors of an R.D.T. Certification Class.

What's up with that?

-----------------------

Stay blessed!

yours in the continued evolution of Manual Medicine,

An Open Letter to Physical Rehabilitation Professionals In the Philippines

Dear Colleagues,

Ever heard of the phrase "What helps one also helps others"?

We've just finished our first Manual Medicine Workshop for 2010. We finished our first two Cervical Neuromyofascial Workshops in January and February. Thanks to your continued support, these Sharing Sessions have been very well received. We would, however, like to do this Series of Workshops even better.

We went through a natural progression through our first three sessions. The Cervical 1 Session came with its own online manual, and we completed and stuck to topic as much as we could. The Shoulder 1 Workshop (2010's Session 3) started with an outline meant to run in 8 hours, completed in two hours. We then proceeded to go off the map, addressing questions about other techniques, demonstrating proven Protocols by other teachers, and proving what we clinically know to work anyway: Rapid Reflexive De-afferentation Techniques.

Last Sunday's show-and tell included the latest study (Grade-A) evidence (four main RCDB-Multicenter studies) for shoulder manipulation in place of, and as an exceptional adjunct to Medical, Medical-orthopedic, and Surgical Orthopedic approaches. Several books were also available. These both detailed the evidence for, research behind, and techniques for Manual Medicine Interventions that we used.

We also brought along standard physiotherapy and Physical Rehabilitation books from here and abroad. The point is that these approaches are standard and mainstream. Medicare U.S.A. and TRICARE International coverage backs up the known usefulness and cost-effectiveness of these approaches.

We also demonstrated the most difficult knee case we've seen, as a live-patient demo of a truly difficult intra-articular injection. Can you picture inserting a needle into a capillary tube (the ones used for CBC assay)?

These are world-class techniques and practices. Are Filipinos not world-class?
The point is that we're hoping to help everyone evolve their clinical practice.
We can not do this alone.
We are asking for your help in promoting this work, this evolution.

In line with this, may we kindly gather your feedback by filling in at least short answers for the following survey?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
What aspects of Manual Medicine / Manual Therapy / Physical Rehabilitative Manipulation would you be 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

__________________________________________________________________________________________
Which Tuesday or Sunday would be best for you to attend Training Sessions with us?
Please specify dates for March, April, and May 2010.
__________________________________________________________________________________________

Why not "pay it forward?" When you realize that this opportunity would greatly benefit your friends / colleagues / patients, please feel free to pass on this feedback form.

With overflowing Gratitude and Respect,

Yours In the Evolution of Manual Medicine,

Sandro Strix S. Toledo
1011 MATI Building, The Medical City Hospital,
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines