High Achieving PTs

Level I

Level I courses help to make the complicated simple. You’ll decide what the important issues are and how to prioritize the rest. You’ll start to really crave new patient evaluations; you’ll do more of them in a day, without feeling stressed and overburdened.

Level I courses develop your clinical reasoning skills, specifically identifying serious pathology; screening the patient to answer the question of whether the patient should be in physical therapy, and to allow you to prioritize and focus the examination process.

Level I courses improve your diagnostic skills. Differential diagnosis sounds easy, but NAIOMT will develop the intricate details that allow you to really separate the common from the not so common, the benign from the serious.

Level I courses improve your technique skills…you learn all these techniques (especially manipulation) in school, but there’s no time to master them. NAIOMT teaches mastery of technique through focused lab sessions that are specific and in a case-based context.

Level I courses are evidence-informed. We combine the best from the best with a logical, reason-based platform to provide an eclectic, inclusive, and thorough approach to the evaluation and treatment of orthopedic manual therapy patients.

Level I courses are built around real patient cases. NAIOMT uses actual cases to show you how an expert thinks and works their way through a complicated patient case. Then, we show you how to do it, and how to apply it to similar cases.

Level II

Continue a strong focus on your clinical reasoning skills and begin to place more emphasis on the decision-making aspects of particular cases.

Begin to develop an in-depth focus on biomechanics of each individual joint and the functional movement relationships between different regions.

Focus on specific biomechanical examinations of each joint in the spinal and peripheral systems, right down the individual spinal segment.

Focus on specific ligament stress testing and joint stability testing at each joint in the spine and periphery.

Focus on an intricate development of your examination and intervention techniques, including detail and repetition of skills.

Level III

Level III courses are designed to bring everything together at an advanced level. They combine the clinical reasoning and decision-making skills acquired in Level I and with the specific examination and intervention techniques mastered in Level II.

Focus on what is now known as ‘Regional Interdependence.’ You will learn to analyze and effectively examine signs and symptoms from different parts of the body, integrating them into a seamless approach.

Focus on true cause and effect. Understand how central biomechanical and neurological causes can cause signs and symptoms in the periphery and how to examine them and treat them.

Focus on complicated manual therapy techniques… specific, local, and three-dimensional.

Learn how to effectively treating the most complicated patients.

Embrace innovation and creativity, understanding that not all evidence is literature driven. Level III teaches you how to think out of the box, how to use biomechanics and neurology to understand and create new paradigms that fit the patient’s context.

Level IV

Level IV is simply designed to provide you with the cognitive and motor skills the master the art and science of spinal manipulation: