Objective: This 2-day course has been approved for 15.0 hours through the KPTA and will focus on the Craniocervicofacial (CCF) Complex as well as the TMJ and Upper Cervical Spine.
This is a usable skills course that teaches you to accurately assess and treat dysfunctions of the TMJ, myofascial system, upper cervical systems, and headaches as they relate to patient impairments.
Date: February 11 -12, 2023
Cost: $495
Day 1 and day 2 course outline:
Schedule: Day 1
- Why PT for Craniofacial Pain
- How to Examine: Pain generators, Headache differential, Cervical Spine Mechanics
- Lab: Head and neck posture, Palpation of related Musculature, Beighton Hypermobility Scale
- How to treat: Upper cervical spine, Posture Education-Restoring Lordosis
- Lab: Upper cervical spine-positional faults, Capsular dysfunction, Soft tissue techniques
- TMJ Anatomy, Joint Mechanics
- Lab: AROM, quality of movement, Bony palpation, Muscle Palpation-Myofascial trigger points
- Questions-Review-Evidence Informed Practice
Schedule: Day 2
- Questions and Review: upper cervical
- TMJ Physiology: Mechanics, Disc Displacement, Rocabado Pain Mapping
- Lab: Objective Assessment, Pain Mapping, Joint Glides
- What patients look like: Psychosocial factors, Co-Morbidities, Breathing, Sleep, Airway, Tongue
- Lab: Assessment, Lingual Palatal Seal, Lips, Tongue, Frenulum
- Review-Treatment Principles
- Lab: Treatment-Temporalis tendon release, Joint Glides, Disc Recapture, Patient HEP
- Dental Referral, Other Potential Specialists
- Practice Eval, Develop treatment plan
