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The Eclectic Approach to the Upper and Lower Quarter will teach you easy assessments and even easier treatments for most common issues you see in your clinic everyday. Study at your own pace. Apply what you learn as you learn it. By the end you’ll have 13 CEUs and patients who can’t wait to tell their friends and family about you.

Minutiae Not Included

Most manual therapy courses go something like this.

You travel to a course and spend the next 2-5 days listening to lectures and practicing techniques. 

By the end of it you have 100 new techniques, 60 types of assessments, and a whole workbook of theory to try to wrap your head around.

And that’s just Level 1 from this guru. 

There are, of course, more gurus, with more levels, and more courses, all diving deeper into the minutiae of their approach with hyper-specific assessments and hyper-specific treatments. 

All of this minutiae and specificity are very effective at selling more expensive courses, but how much does it really help you get better outcomes, faster for your patients? 

Ideally you could take all of the courses, read all of the research, and create your own system built around the best elements from each approach. 

You would discard all of the needless complexity and distill it into simple assessments that uncover simple patterns that respond to even simpler treatments.

Luckily, you don’t have to spend all of the money and do all of that work, because I’ve done it for you. 

I’ve spent my entire career taking courses from the gurus, studying their approaches, practicing, learning the minutiae, reading the research, and testing what works with my patients. 

The result is The Eclectic Approach to the Upper and Lower Quarter. The course is 28 modules (and 13 CEUs!) of the best theory, movements screens, assessments, treatments, and self care recommendations for the most common issues you see in your clinic everyday.

What Will You Learn?

The Eclectic Approach to the Upper and Lower Quarter will provide you with assessment and treatment tools for working with the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine as well as the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle. 

By the end you will be able to identify and effectively treat the most common clinical patterns in each body area. 

You will learn…

Simple, evidence informed assessments designed to help you quickly identify clinical patterns

• Movement screens for each body area

• Repeated motions examinations

• Neurodynamic testing with the median, ulnar, radial, sciatic, and femoral nerves

Easy, Effective treatments that work without having to spend hours perfecting them. 

• Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) using the EDGE Tool 

• Functional Mobilizations using EDGE Compression bands

• Neurodynamic treatments

• Positional inhibition techniques

• Isometrics

• And more

An emphasis on patient education and self-care to make sure your patients keep making gains between sessions

• Home exercises

• Repeated motions based resets

• Resets using the EDGE Mobility Band

• And more

All elements of the course are delivered within the framework of best current evidence, a modern understanding of pain science, and the principles of an Eval, Reset, Stabilize approach. 

Plus, Eclectic Approach to the Upper and Lower Quarter is fully online. You have immediate access after purchase and you can study at your own pace. 

That means you can apply what you learn, as you learn it for the biggest impact possible

Everything You Need for "Guru" Like Outcomes

I’ve been teaching the Eclectic Approach to the Upper and Lower Quarter live for years. Now, the full 2-day course has been recorded and divided into 13 hours delivered over 28 video modules. By the end you’ll have a clear framework to get better outcomes in less time.

Understanding the Eclectic Approach

Before we dive into the techniques you’ll get 5 lectures with everything you need to get a modern understanding of pain, manual therapy, and how they inform the Eclectic Approach.

Module 3 and 4: Practice Patterns of the Upper Quarter

Learn the easiest way to find and treat rapid responders with neck and arm pain.

Module 5 and 6: Practice Patterns of the Shoulder, Thoracic Spine and Ribs

Explore how to find rapid responders in the shoulder and thoracic spine, plus you’ll start learning techniques using the EDGE tool, EDGE band, functional mobilizations, and more.

Module 7: Upper Quarter Neurodynamics

Dial in your neurodynamic assessments, then expand your skills with the EDGE tool and EDGE band with pain-free techniques to improve neurodynamic mobility.

Module 8: Practice Patterns of the Elbow and Wrist

Learn to identify the most common patterns of dysfunction in the elbow and address them using sustained glides with repeated movements, EDGE band techniques and more

Module 9: Upper Quarter Positional Inhibition

Soft tissue techniques don’t need to be painful to work. This module will teach you how to make them less painful and more effective.

Modules 10, 11 and 12: Cervical Problem Solving

Patients in the clinic always end up being more complex than what you learn in a course. Dr. E takes you through how to address the most common challenges you’ll come across.

Module 13: Upper Quarter Position Inhibition Part 2

Discover more pain-free techniques to rapidly reduce pain and improve mobility. 

Module 14: Troubleshooting Overhead Mobility

Finish up the upper quarter by learning a repeatable screen for overhead mobility and a variety of techniques to improve it. 

Module 15: Practice Patterns of the Lumbar Spine and Hip

Learn the assessments for the lumbar spine and hip that will help you find and treat rapid responders with low back and leg pain. 

Module 16: Practice Patterns for the Ankle and Squatting

Continue your lower quarter examination down the chain with the squat, a novel ankle assessment, and techniques to address common patterns of dysfunction in these areas.

Module 17: Tibial Practice Patterns

Everyone assesses knee flexion and extension. In this module you will learn to assess tibial rotations and link the findings to common practice patterns. Then learn treatment techniques with the EDGE band.

Module 18: Practice Patterns of the Knee

Continue your examination of the knee with a simple, repeatable assessment and a counter-intuitive EDGE Tool treatment that works.

Module 19: Breathing Assessment and Hip Inhibition

Expand your examination with a simple breathing assessment and techniques to improve breathing mechanics.

Module 20: The Hip and Neurodynamics

Learn a novel technique and home exercise to rapidly improve toe touch and hip mobility.

Module 21: Lumbar Problem Solving

Explore common challenges you’ll likely encounter in applying the lower quarter practice patterns to the clinic. Dr. E takes you through how to address the most common challenges you’ll come across.

Module 22: The Lateral Chain Arm Pull Test and Leg Stability

Add another lower quarter assessment you weren’t taught in school and the techniques to address any issues you find.

Module 23: Eval, Reset, Stabilize for Hip Extension

Learn a simple but effective assessment for hip extension. Next apply techniques to reset and improve the ROM. And finally stabilize the area with simple cues to make a common hip exercise far more effective.

Module 24: Low Threshold Isometrics for the Upper and Lower Quarter

Complete the course with this gentle, pain-free technique that provides surprising results in pain and movement.

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