Graston Advanced training
2-Day Advanced Training, on Long Island,NY.
Date:
Sat Mar 9 - 10, 2024
Location:
800 E Gate Blvd
Garden City, NY 11530
Overview
This course will emphasize a Graston Technique® examination and treatment approach for musculoskeletal dysfunction/mechanical pain that can be applied in all patient cases.
The Advanced Training course objectives are designed to:
- Advance knowledge of GT examination procedures for assessing musculoskeletal dysfunction while introducing the principles of regional interdependence and functional testing.
- Enhance clinical decision-making skills during the application of GT.
- Advance repertoire of GT interventions for the management of musculoskeletal dysfunction/mechanical pain.
- Develop a higher level of skill acquisition for utilizing GT while introducing movement, resistance, weight bearing, and provocation patterns to treatment.
- Review major GT concepts covered in the Essential course (eight fundamental strokes, ergonomics, scar & edema techniques, physiology of GT, if necessary).
- Provide an opportunity for participants to discuss patients that have challenged them since they started incorporating instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) into their practice.
- Introduce advanced GT skills incorporating IASTM with movement, with resistance, in weight bearing, during provocation, and with therapeutic exercise typically prescribed for common musculoskeletal pathologies.
- Review selected case studies that illustrate advanced clinical applications of IASTM.
- Share most recent research findings pertaining to IASTM.
INSTRUCTOR
Mike Ploski
Mike maintains a clinical practice at a rehabilitation company with four sites in the Indianapolis area and is a guest instructor in orthopedic manual therapy at the University of Indianapolis. He was a clinic director in Indianapolis for 12 years for a national rehabilitation company. Prior to that, he was a Physical Therapist/Athletic Trainer for the PGA Tour and the CART racing league. Mike has been a GT-trained clinician since 1996 and a GT instructor since 1998. He joined Graston Technique, LLC in 2013 and now serves as Clinical Advisor. He works in close collaboration with the faculty members who teach Graston Technique in the curriculum of advanced degree programs in physical therapy and athletic training and represents GT at national conferences. Mike received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wabash College in 1984 and a Master of Education degree with a major in exercise physiology from Temple University in 1986. He earned a Master of Science degree from the Krannert School of Physical Therapy at the University of Indianapolis in 1988. He has been a certified Athletic Trainer since 1985 and board certified in orthopedics since 1998.
Hour 0-0.5
- Welcome and Introduction to Module 2
- Principles relating to soft-tissue dysfunction
- Anticipated responses and results from using GT instruments on the human neuromyofascial system (quick overview)
- Foundational Science
- Intervention
- Lecture with Questions & Answers
Hour 0.5-1.5
- Review of each instrument as needed
- Proper handholds and treatment strokes
- Laboratory practice reviewing most common applications of scanning, sweeping, strumming, brushing, swiveling, scooping, j-strokes and framing (regional applications)
- Intervention
- Demonstrations
- Lab-application of techniques and information
Hour 1.5 - 3 (includes 10 min. break)
- Fascial physiology & structural considerations
- Anticipated responses and results from using GT instruments on the human neuromyofascial system (Expanded discussion to include relevant research updates)
- Indications & Contraindications
- Documentation & Billing
- M2 Treatment Parameters
- M2 Treatment Algorithm
- Foundational Science
- Intervention
- Lecture with Questions & Answers
Hour 3 - 4.5
- Laboratory practice reviewing most common applications of IA Skin Roll, C-Bowing, Fascial Spiral, Pin and Stretch/Glide, Interface Rock/Scoop (regional applications); without then with movement & load
- “Additional Treatment Considerations” & M2 Treatment Algorithm Lecture/Discussion
- Intervention
- Demonstrations
- Lab-application of techniques and information
- Lecture with Questions & Answers
Hour 4.5-5.5
Hour 5.5 - 6
- What is Functional Testing & Common Systems
- Test/Treat/Retest
- Regional Interdependence
- Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) as a Means of Detecting Dysfunction in the Human Neuromyofascial System
- Examination
- Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis
- Lecture with Questions & Answers
- Demonstration
- Lab-application of techniques or information
Hour 6 - 7.5 (includes 10 min. break)
- Functional testing of the cervical, thoracic & lumbosacral spine
- M1 & M2 strokes applied to the cervical, thoracic, & lumbosacral spine static tissue preparation then addition of movement & load
- Examination
- Intervention
- Demonstrations
- Lab-application of techniques and information
Hour 7.5 - 8
- Why Assess Breathing
- Breathing & Abdominal Wall Assessments
- Examination
- Evaluation, Diagnosis and Prognosis
- Intervention
- Lecture with Questions & Answers
- Demonstration
- Lab-application of techniques or information
Hour 8 - 9
- Functional Testing of the abdominal wall, diaphragm & anterior pelvis
- M1 & M2 strokes applied to the cervical, thoracic & lumbosacral spines static tissue preparation then addition of movement & load
- Includes 10 minute break
- Examination
- Intervention
- Demonstrations
- Lab-application of techniques and information
Hour 9 - 9.5
- GT Scar Mobilization Principles
- Nudging, Lifting & Skin Rolling Scars with movement & load
- GT Edema Techniques
- End Day 1 with Questions & Answers/Day 1 Wrap-up
- Examination
- Intervention
- Demonstrations
- Lab-application of techniques and information