Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminars

This three-hour course offers insight into functional problems in the jaw, face, oral cavity, and submental region. Additionally, it includes a small number of newer tongue "techniques" not included elsewhere in the Foundations Seminar online curriculum. This is more than just a technique class, as without a thorough understanding of the many factors at play when we intervene, technique learning becomes rote and is often applied without context. In addition to providing the learner with new treatment options, this course, like all Foundations Seminars courses, strongly emphasizes the "soft skills" of establishing the therapeutic relationship, increasing patient input, and continuously integrating manual therapy with movement/exercise. Be prepared to be challenged.

Throughout this course, you will learn novel applications and modifications of touch-based manual therapy interventions positioned side-by-side with movement and exercise. Body regions covered include the jaw/TMJ, the oral cavity, including the soft palate, the submental region, and a few newer techniques for the tongue not covered in the separate "Rethinking Manual Therapy and Exercise for the Tongue" course.