COMT-4 Cervico-Thoracic Evaluation And Management

This lab-intensive course applies clinical reasoning and a comprehensive biomechanical musculoskeletal assessment and examination skills of the lower thoracic and cervical spines utilized by the physical therapist in the clinical setting. This course analyzes the importance of safely assessing and treating the cervical and thoracic spine by discussing various clinical scenarios that require immediate clinical reasoning and differential diagnostic skills in order to act efficiently.  This course will solidify the importance of a thorough subjective examination and specific objective assessment in order for the participant to formulate a provisional differential diagnosis while demonstrating how to rule out serious pathology. Additionally, the participants will demonstrate appropriate treatment and management skills of the cervical and upper thoracic spine utilized by the physical therapist in the clinical setting management including joint articulation stability and mobility techniques, as well as neuromuscular reeducation and therapeutic exercises to reinforce all manual therapy techniques. Courses can be taken in any order as each course covers different bodily regions.

Format:

1 day online (7 hours) with 2 assessments + 2 days onsite (14 hours) = 21 hours.

1.5 credits / 2.1 CEU’s

Day 1 (Sunday): Check-in: 7:45 am - 8:00 am; Class: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Day 2 (Monday): 8:00 am – 3:30 pm

Online:  Access to the online course material will be emailed prior to the course start date.

*Aspire OMT’s Continuing Education Credits are approved for the state in which the course is taught.

The building is not directly on Tacoma Mall Blvd but behind the Seattle Lighting store. There is plenty of parking in the front of the building.

The educational center is on the 2nd floor (the clinic is on the first floor). Attendees should utilize the building's front door, go up the stairs, and use the door on the left.