Head, Neck And Jaw

Taking turns for a quick assessment

After Aized last week, yours truly attended the Head, Neck and Jaw course yesterday and today. This is the next course offered after we did the Shoulders and Arms course earlier in April this year.

Wow, time really flies, it's already October today.
It was a really interesting course looking at everyone's head, neck and into their mouths. Yes, you read correctly, we got to stick our fingers inside each other's mouths.

All five different necks

We learnt about the Masseter and Temporalis which are on our face and skull, we also learnt how to treat the Medial and Lateral terygoids, which are inside our mouths and how they connect to the neck.

Showing me my Lateral Pterygoids

Yes, we got right into each other's mouths.

Medial , Lateral Pterygoids

Back to work tomorrow. And if you need to get your head, neck or jaw treated .....

Shoulders And Arms

Really heavy ....

It's back to learning as I attend another course with Anatomy Trains. This time as you can see it's on the Shoulders and Arms.

How do all the scapulars compare?

It's fairly intense in terms of theory, videos to watch and lots of practical as well. Looks like the next couple of days will pass fairly quickly.

New vocabulary

New participants to meet, new terms to get used too and new ways to "body read" each other. Looks like I may have to burn midnight oil to review everything we've done today.

Fans Of The Hip

Fans of the hip 

Yes, that's the title of the latest course  I am attending. But I'd like to say that we (staff at Physio and Sports Solutions) are fans of learning too. Yes, we are always striving to be better physiotherapists so we can get better at treating our patients.

At lunch, a fellow physiotherapist at the course was asking me why I wasn't  "growing" or opening more clinics. He mentioned that "lots of people" would want to partner us to have more clinics. To which I said we do not wish to be the biggest (physiotherapy chain of clinics), we just want to be the best at treating the cause of  your pain. That's why we keep learning.The lecturer did a great job explaining how the sacrum sits between the 2 hip bones

Ting Jun is the sacrum sitting between Derek and I (the 2 hip bones) in the picture below. For example if I shift forwards and Derek goes back (to simulate forward and posterior tilt in the pelvis) Ting Jun (the sacrum) will really feel unstable.

See the apprehension in her face

Last day of the course today. Back to work tomorrow.

Arches And Legs

It has been a big learning week for us. Aized attended the Anatomy Trains Structure and Function course last Friday to Sunday. And Ting Jun and I went for the next part on the "Arches and Legs" for the past three days.

Some of it has been revision of earlier concepts, while incorporating more in depth details as well.

Here are some pictures from our past 3 days at the course.

Feet and arches

Let me have a look too

 Deep in thought

When it comes to learning and making ourselves better physios, we make sure we do not cut any corners. As a team, we've spent lots of time going for courses, discussing difficult cases and sharing what we've learnt with each other to improve ourselves.

Majority of our patients are by "word of mouth" referrals. A patient comes and sees us in our clinic, they get better really quickly and they then refer their families and friends to our clinic.

So please come and see us in our clinics and we'll do our best to help you.

Looking forward to using what we've learnt at work tomorrow. Yes, back to work tomorrow.

Anatomy Trains Course

Aized did the Pediatric Craniosacral Therapy course two weeks ago, while I attended the Anatomy Trains workshop this weekend.

Since I did the first two days of this course last year, I only had to come only for the third and fourth day this year.

It was good to have done a little last year and then review some the concepts while adding on to it this time around.

Here are some pictures from the course.

Theory 

More theory

At the end of the course the presenter was saying "if all of you go in to see and patients tomorrow and wonder what you need to do then I've done my job. "

He was challenging us to look at and treat our patients with a whole new perspective instead of trying to treat our patients the same way we've done.

This has been a most interesting and stimulating course. It ties in nicely with many of the things we already do with fascia while treating our patients.

Well, I'll share what I've learnt with the rest of our team and we'll all be looking to treat our patients and make them better quicker.