Manual Therapy Horizons - March 2010
 An Official Publication of Hands-On Seminars

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Dear Colleagues and Course Participants:

We hope that this e-mail finds you in good health. Here are the issues we would like to cover in the March issue of Manual Therapy Horizons:

• Hands-On Seminars embarks in the month of March a World Tour that will bring the message of Manual Therapy to various countries around the world. First stop is South Africa where our MCMT program accelerated program will be attended by a large group of PTs. In April and in subsequent months a huge tour will bring our manual therapy courses in the various cities of Brazil to train over 100,000 Brazilian therapists in Manual Therapy. The program will expand in the entire South American region.
• Hands-On Seminars has updated our seminar schedule for the year with new additional dates and courses. We have now added a Neurofascial Mobilization course and a Vestibular Rehabilitation course. For dates and cities please look below.
• APTA is very close in achieving a repeal of the Medicare Cap. As we are releasing this newsletter there are intense negotiations in the US Senate to at least temporarily hold off the capitation for PT and OT services. We fully support these efforts and here is the link for the APTA Action center: CONTACT CONGRESS TODAY! ASK YOUR SENATORS TO COSPONSOR LEGISLATION TO EXTEND THE THERAPY CAP EXCEPTIONS PROCESS!
• If you are a New York based Physical Therapist join for Free the PT information and social network www.physiocentralonline.com and become a friend of the Hands-On Seminars group.
• CLINICIAN'S CORNER: Read below at the Clinician's Corner section how a patient with Low Back Pain was treated successfully with Manual Therapy!

CLINICIAN'S CORNER
A 43 year old taxi cab driver presented with severe low back pain to the point that he was unable to sit or stand for more than a few minutes at a time. The pain started two months ago after he drove his car continuously for 14 hours. He visited his primary care doctor who referred him for an MRI of the lumbar spine, since the pain radiated to the front of his thigh. MRI was negative and the primary care doctor sent him for physical therapy to a different office. The patient received PT for about 4-5 weeks with no change of his pain. He states: "I would notice some improvement for an hour or two but the moment I would step into the car, the pain would come back".

His cousin happens to be a patient at Hands-On and he referred him to us for an evaluation and treatment. When we asked the patient what treatment he received at the other PT office he stated: "They gave me some heat, electricity and massage in my back. Then I had to do bike and some exercises for my belly"

TREATMENT: Upon a thorough evaluation we found that the patient had a MyoFascial Trigger Point syndrome of his Iliopsoas muscle. The Iliopsoas muscle is located in the front of the lumbar spine and attaches to the lumber vertebrae and to the femur. Interestingly enough this muscle when is injured by repetitive motion, such as overuse while driving a car and moving the leg from the gas pedal to the break pedal can refer pain to the lower back.

This patient was treated successfully with 6 short Manual Therapy session and has been pain free for the past several weeks. We never touched or treated his lower back. The entire treatment took place in the front hip area at the Iliopsoas muscle. This is the power of properly applied Manual Physical Therapy!

Please forward this e-mail to any of your friends and colleagues.

All the best,

Dimitrios Kostopoulos, PT, PhD, DSc
Konstantine Rizopoulos, PT, FABS
Founders Hands-On Seminars

1-888-767-5003
www.handsonseminars.com

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