Course Testimonials
 
Course – Postpartum Health for Moms – Restoring Form and Function after Pregnancy

Dear LJ,
I have been reflecting on how I have changed as a physio in the last few years. I wasn't ready for the motor control stuff last year in that I didn't have all the articular stuff sorted out in my head. I KNEW what it all was and but I think I just needed to get enough patients under my hands to feel what was going on.

The Post Partum Course helped me integrate the motor control stuff. I understand the articular stuff more fully now and so I have been able to integrate the MC stuff into practice - with excellent results.

I have also been thinking about the magic in your hands and how to "bottle" what's in them. The suggestion that your hands give is subtle. I have been trying to practice with "listening" hands for a while now but now I am trying to listen and then suggest with them. I think it is working because I can feel the changes occur when I "suggest" to my patients thru my hands.

Your verbal cues have also been very helpful. It was good to hear you say that if your patients couldn't get the contraction with 4 different cues then you have missed something (articular, myofascial etc). That sort of comment/throw-away-line is worth the money to do the course because you don't find it in your (Diane and your) textbooks!

In general, I have found your courses to be the best organised, presented and useful. In summary, you all have inspired me to think and extend my knowledge and skills. My patients love what they are getting and I always pay tribute to you and the others for the knowledge I have gained from you all.
Thanks again!


Antony Lo, Sydney, Australia
 
Course - Lumbopelvic-hip – An Integrated Approach
Dear Diane,
I wanted to thank you and Linda-Joy for presenting an excellent course this past weekend in Milwaukee. After seventeen years in practice I didn't think I would be spending three full days learning powerful new strategies with immediate clinical effectiveness. Boy was I wrong. Now I can see how I need to integrate what I knew and what I now know from your course.

Thank you for spending the time to make sure we understood what you were teaching. I'm sure we could have filled another two days listening to you and Linda-Joy share your wisdom and experience. Now I look forward to your next course.

Todd Pratte
 
Course – The Lumbopelvic-hip – An Integrated Approach

Dear LJ,
I wanted to write to thank-you and Diane for a fabulous course and the wonderful opportunity to spend time with you both. Every one of the patients I saw yesterday and today has benefited from the information and clinical insight you both shared. I appreciate the thousands of hours you and Diane have put into developing your materials. They are beautiful to look at, easy to follow, logical in sequence and full of pearls. Your course manual is brilliant and will be an invaluable reference. Thank-you for all that you have created.


Holly Herman, Cambridge MA
 
Course – The Pelvis – An Integrated Approach for Restoring Function, Relieving Pain
Dear Diane
Very few courses have challenged me to truly change the way I think and interpret movement – this course will affect the way I practice well beyond the pelvis – thanks.

-- Bob Johnson, Chicago
 
Course – Spinal Manipulation for Neuromyofascial Release
Dear Diane,

The advanced spinal manipulation course was the best course I have attended in a very long time! It was so well organized, completely clinically applicable, and you've put your model together so well and kept it consistent throughout. It also helped that there was such an outstanding group of individuals there. But although I loved playing with Cliff in particular, I have had that opportunity at several courses, but yours delivered the best product by far.

Thank you so much for inviting me along. If I hadn't been scheduled to teach that weekend I probably would have signed up for it on my own, but your invite prompted me to change things around - best thing I could have done.

I do a fair amount of release stuff clinically, but lots of pressure stretch approach. I've used functional techniques a lot in the past, but not as much recently so it has been great to rethink about shortening to release instead of stretching.

You are amazing Diane, thanks for coming back to teach in Canada - we need you here!
Carol Kennedy, Vancouver
 
COURSE – The Advanced Thorax
LJ:
Thank you for making the trip to Reston this weekend. Treatment of the thoracic spine has been somewhat of an enigma to me, but I am beginning to see it more simplistically now. I also have a clearer sense of how significant thoracic dysfunction can be on surrounding joints. I've often suspected this, but now think I can zero in a little better and improve my patients more quickly/completely.

As fortune would have it, my third patient this morning was sent with a diagnosis of "thoracic strain". His seated arm lift was positive and after a little soft tissue mobilization and retraining he was lifting his arm "light as a feather like the other one". The muscle guarding was much reduced and he could move further in all directions. I finished by taping him and he was much happier when he left than when he came in.

Thanks again,

Jason D. Handschumacher, DPT, CSCS
Charlotte, NC
 
COURSE – The Thorax and Shoulder Girdle – An Integrated Approach
Hi LJ,

Thanks for a great course this past weekend. Going on courses can be an effort at times, but you and Diane make it fun, relevant and interesting so that I really didn’t feel like I was making a big sacrifice.
I am enjoying looking at my patients with “thoracic” eyes and I know that I will be a better clinician for having done your course.

Thanks again,
Gordon Bohlmann
Registered Physiotherapist
Director: Marpole Physiotherapy Clinic
Ridgeway Physiotherapy Clinic
Vancouver, BC