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6 Ceu's Package, Thomas R. Denninger - PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
Recent clinical research suggests that manual therapy is effective, especially when certain patients with musculoskeletal pain are targeted. Despite the favourable clinical outcomes from manual therapy, we still know very little about the mechanisms of its effectiveness.
In this course, we consider wide ranging mechanisms of manual therapy with special attention directed towards recent research investigating manual therapy influence on pain.
This course will begin by defining manual therapy and considering reasons for investigating its mechanisms. We then provide a conceptual framework for the course including a discussion of models in the peer-review literature that explain how manual therapy works.