CPD Courses
The Spine – Mastering the Basics
- 2 Day Course
- Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
- 8.30am- 5pm
- Max 20 candidates
With over 20 years practicing physiotherapy graduating with BSc Hon in Physiotherapy in 2003 and MSc in Sport Physiotherapy in 2017, Jo has a vast range of experience across hospital, private practice, and high-performance sport settings. Working at the most competitive level of sport for over 15years with professional, Olympic and Commonwealth athletes Jo has treated and rehabilitated many complex spinal related injuries and complaints to the highest level. Now working in private practice, homing these skills to the general population and clinical setting has led to specialise management of both common and challenging spinal conditioning.
Now leading on the professional development of new graduates and junior staff across 3 private practice clinics as helped to identify the need to upskill physiotherapists on fundamental skills of assessment and practical hands-on therapy. With a passion for manual and exercise therapy, Jo has created a series of in-person courses to further develop and enhance physiotherapists in safe, effective and management of patients.
Course Aims and Objectives
Objectives:
- Understand the importance of the subjective assessment, undertaking efficient patient history with real time patient feedback, unpinning the development of the therapeutic relationship.
- Develop fundamental skills in the objective assessment of the spine, including strategies to structure the process to assist with extracting the key findings.
- Enhance understanding of the detailed the anatomy of the spine and common spinal pathology.
- Explore clinical reasoning strategies to form differential diagnoses and formation of working hypothesis for diagnosis, prognosis and outline treatment and management plan for common spinal conditions.
- Enhance palpatory skills of spine including main bony landmarks, joints and supporting musculature.
- Application of safe (patient consented) manual therapy techniques for analgesic response and change in movement quality and range.
- Understand dosage and grading of accessory and physiological mobilisation of treatment techniques.
- Have the ability to prescriptive of basic mobility and early stage rehab exercises for various spinal conditions, based on patient status and daily activity work related needs.
Mulligan Manual Therapy Concept Lower quadrant (Part B)
- The Physio Group, Alexander House 17 Ormeau Avenue Belfast BT2 8HD 17 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, United Kingdom
- January 23 & 24, 2027
- 2 Day Practical Course of The Lower Quadrant includes Peripheral Joints, Lumbar Joints, Lumbar Spine and Sacroiliac Joints
Overview
This two-day course introduces the MULLIGAN CONCEPT™ to the application of Mobilisation with Movement the lower quadrant, and lumbosacral spine.
Aimed at the frontline practitioner, the MULLIGAN CONCEPT™ is a series of instantaneous and pain-free manual therapy techniques to allow assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders to provide symptom and functional modification.
Course Outline
The course will provide the candidate with:
- How MWM sits within modern clinical reasoning and pathways
- Establishing when, and when not to experiment with MWM
- Self-MWM to enable patient-empowerment in their management
These interventions shall be underpinned by sound clinical reasoning in the application of Mobilisation with Movement on patients. Current rationalisation of the evidence base for the use of the MULLIGAN CONCEPT™ and manual therapy will be considered.
MULLIGAN CONCEPT™ courses provide clinically directed education in:
- Hands-on techniques
- Self-treatment and self-management strategies
- Taping and home taping techniques
Course objectives
On completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Describe the underpinning theory of NAG's, SNAG's and Mobilisations with Movement (MWM's).
- Demonstrate and justify the use of spinal NAG's and SNAG's the lumboscaral region -Demonstrate and justify the use of peripheral MWM's for the hip, knee, and foot with reference to common musculoskeletal disorders
- Demonstrate the use of self-MWM’s and treatment in the context of holistic multi-modal patient care
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE 15.5 Hours Awarded Course materials:
The candidate shall receive the following to allow immediate application of the Mulligan Concept in their clinical environment:
- A copy of ‘NAGS, SNAGS, MWM’s etc’ by Brian Mulligan
- A Mulligan treatment belt
- An extensive printed course Handbook
- Sponge foam for improved comfort with handling
Course Tutor
THOMAS MITCHELL: MCTA INSTRUCTOR Thomas is the UK MULLIGAN CONCEPT™ teacher, gaining membership to the Mulligan Concept Teachers Association in 2016. He is also a team leader and clinical supervisor first contact physiotherapist for Primary Care Sheffield NHS trust, clinical lead physiotherapist for the One Health Hand Hub and private practitioner for Remedy Physio.
EXPERIENCE Thomas has been practicing physiotherapy for over 20 years and has a number of clinical and academic interests. He worked for ten years in the elite sporting environment, with posts with the English Institute of Sport, GB Boxing, GB Wheelchair Rugby and Sheffield United Football Club. He lectures internationally on topics including the upper limb, First-Contact Physiotherapy and wrist and hand, and speaks regularly at national and international conferences. Thomas is academically active, currently engaged in a systematic review of physiotherapy for the shoulder and contributing chapters to various textbooks. He is the UK Mulligan Concept teacher providing training in the rational use of mobilisations with movement in the modern clinical environment.
