Timeline for Spine and Thorax

Friday Evening

6:30 – 7:30 Opening Lecture / Welcome

  • Goals of NMT
  • Principles and Tenets

7:45-9:30 Low Back Pain / SI Joint Issues / Hip Pathology

  • Prevalence
  • Anatomy / Palpation of Landmarks
  • Signs and Symptoms
  • Break
  • Differential Testing (Faber, Gaenslens, LaSegues, Stork, Standing flexion, medial compressions, etc.
  • Trade on Movements and Testing
Saturday

9:00 to 10:15 Notes on Fascia

  • How to treat / why to treat / Anatomy
  • Demo and trade

10:30 to 11:15 Erector Muscles

  • Anatomy
  • Testing ROM
  • Demo and Trade focus on iliocostalis

11:30 to 12:15 Multifidi and pars Lumborum muscles

  • Anatomy
  • Testing ROM (sit with legs off table)
  • Demo and Trade focus on palpation skills

12:15 to 12:45 Iliolumbar Ligament

  • Anatomy
  • Demo and Trade focus on intercristal plane

Lunch

2:00 to 3:30 Quadratus Lumborum

  • Anatomy / Signs and symptoms
  • Testing ROM Lateral flexion measure from fingertips to the floor. Also look at the lumbar curve.
  • Demo and Trade focus on palpation skills and using all three positions.

3:45 to 4:30 Lumbar disc anatomy and pathology - Lecture

4:45 to 5:30 Serratus posterior inferior

Anatomy, Demo, Trade

5:30 to 6:00 Review

Sunday

9:00 to 9:30 Review and Questions
9:30 to 10:30 Serratus posterior superior and Levator costorum


1. Anatomy
2. Symptoms
3. Rib motions
10:45 to 12:00 Psoas and Iliacus
1. Anatomy
2. Symptoms
3. Abdominal Aortic Artery implications
4. Demo
5. Trade

Lunch

1:00 to 2:30 Rotatores, Obliques, and the rotational capacity of the spine


1. Lecture
2. Experiential
3. Measurement and testing
4. Demo
5. Trade

2:45 to 3:45 Precision palpation of osseous landmarks of the spine Draw the muscles on each other with a china marker. Quiz and review

4:00 to 4:50 Rectus abdominus and diaphragm
1. Lecture
2. Experiential
3. Measurement and testing
4. Demo
5. Trade

5:00 Case study / scenarios / questions
5:30 to 6:00 Review

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