Medical Therapeutic Yoga for Lumbopelvic Evaluation and Management

Course Description

COMING SOON IN 2011!
The lumbopelvic course will be offered in part through our new distance learning program. Stay tuned to the distance learning page to learn how you can take the Lumbopelvic course through our new online education program.
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This 2 day integrative medicine course is designed for the education of rehabilitation professionals and anyone who deals with patient populations with lumbopelvic dysfunction, including low back pain & sacroiliac dysfunction.

Over 16 million Americans practice yoga for its health benefits.  Research supports yoga’s efficacy as a therapeutic modality, yet less than 6.5% of therapists are recommending or using it for their patients.  In this course, you will learn a new therapeutic paradigm for evaluation and management of the lumbopelvic spine which provides immediate clinical application of medical therapeutic yoga for both patient and post-rehabilitation populations.

The course and its textbook equips the medical professional with the skills to use medical therapeutic yoga (breathing, postures, and psycho-emotional considerations) and Ayurvedic principles (medical science of yoga) for prevention and pathophysiological management. Using a systems approach evaluative model can help prevent injury and assist in shifting from a pathology based to a holistically based health care model.  Learn how medical therapeutic yoga, applied with evidence based medicine, can optimize patient outcomes, maximize performance, and create effective spinal rehabilitation programs.

80% of Americans will experience low back pain at some point in their lives.  This course enables you to empower patients, increase patient compliance, and expand services you can offer in your community. 

Audience:  PT’s, ATC’s, OT’s, RN’s, PA’s, and other health care professionals dealing with lumbopelvic management. Note: *This is not an introductory level course.

The course includes:
Ginger's 75+ page, Dialogues in Lumbopelvic Professional Yoga Therapy
*  Over 100 photographic illustrations for creating individualized home yoga programs for patients and students.
*  Evaluative template for health care professionals which combined Medical Yoga, Ayurveda, and Western Rehabilitation techniques.
*  Both pathology and prevention based health care models for managing spinal dysfunction and pain.
*  Business & Personal Listing on "Find A Therapist" service, online support, and PYT website student level membership

What Students Are Saying  * Ginger's hands-on approach carefully deconstructs the biomechanics of the spine within the context of the pose and breath. * Her methods allow for immediate clinical application for the lumbopelvic region. *

Ginger's work is based on her extensive clinical experience in physical therapy, manual therapy, yoga therapy, and the research of Lee, Panjabi, Vleeming, and many other experts in the field of lumbopelvic research. * This course equips the clinician with the skills to design programs in the clinic for the acute and chronic management of lumbopelvic dysfunction. * It will also teach functional application for optimizing ADL completion. * This course allows the western health care clinician to simultaneously offer their patients both advanced care in low back pain and manual therapy and eastern healing modalities.

Clinical Objectives

 Apply a new therapeutic evaluation paradigm using a systems based approach.

Use effective medical therapeutic yoga techniques for lumbopelvic stabilization and mobilization.

Design Integrative Medicine programs in medical therapeutic yoga for your facility and community to expand your range of services.

Improve both patient and therapist satisfaction and well being through shifting from a pathology to a preventive based model of health care.

Course Outline

Learn:

1. Concise Evaluative Paradigm
   
2. Yoga's Science
3. Research
4. Holistic Treatment Philosophy
5. Pain management
6. Segmental stabilization
7. Local and Global Stabilizing systems
8. Respiration evaluation and management
9. Shifting the role of the therapist
10. Posture and breath sequencing
11. Case study
12. Static and dynamic postural study for neuro-muscular re-education, core stability, strength, and balance
13. Patient centered holistic program design
14. Community and cash based Integrative Medicine program design

Continuing Education Credits: 16 CE

Prerequisites A prior personal practice in yoga of at least 6 months is highly recommended. For non licensed health care professionals, an RYT200 is required, but an RYT500 is preferred. Prior clinical or studio experience in blending yoga and rehabilitation is beneficial.

Recommended viewing Ancient Yoga, New You Yoga Therapy DVD for Chronic Pain Management