Online Course: Rethinking Manual Therapy and Exercise for the Tongue
Course Description: Manual therapy has long been seen as an expert-driven stretching or tissue impact model that reduces or corrects local pathology. However, newer research positions manual therapy as a form of communication to the patient’s brain, allowing them to contribute to change. This course uses newer multifactorial impact research to position tongue-based manual therapy under the umbrella of such evolutions.
Using a shared decision-making intervention model, this course will allow the learner to incorporate manual therapy in the tongue region for articulatory disorders, oral motor delays, post-surgical and post-radiation disorders, airway issues, and swallowing/voice concerns.
This course teaches the most up-to-date tongue engagements taught in the in-person Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders In-Person class. This course will contain essentially new/updated content from the Online Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders class, making it an essential part of working in this area.
This 2-hour online course offers ASHA CEUs (0.2) and NCBTMB CEs (2.0). ASHA # ABIQ 2018
Learning Outcomes:
The participant will be able to:
1. Describe how manual therapy influences reach far beyond correcting local tissue faults.
2. Tell how shared decision-making can be incorporated into manual therapy interventions.
3. Be capable of applying a range of tongue-based manual therapy interventions for the remediation of oral motor, swallowing, voice, and airway concerns.
4. Define how to combine tongue-based manual therapy with exercise to build awareness and function.
Timed Agenda
● 25 minutes Overview
● 30 minutes Approach 1
● 15 minutes Approach 2
● 5 minutes Approach 3
● 15 minutes Approach 4
● 30 minutes Approach 5
● 5 minutes Wrap-up
TOTAL: 120 minutes
Instructional Methods
This online course consists of lectures, demonstrations, and recorded in-person demonstrations. There is a quiz on completion of this 2-hour course. The learner must pass with a grade of 75% or higher.
Disclosures
Walt Fritz has the following relevant financial relationship to disclose: He receives royalties from similar course content delivered through Medbridge Massage, Talk Tools, Compton Publishing Ltd., and PatCom. He has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
You may purchase this course for $100 at this link.
