Kursus i Manuel Teknik

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COURSE IN IMT

Thanks to the vision of and in joint collaboration with Michael Cohrt, we are very excited and pleased to announce that we will be offering, for the first time in Denmark, the unique opportunity to study a professional training course in Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT). First developed in the United States in the 1970s by Dr. Sharon Weiselfish Giammatteo, IMT is an innovate approach that fuses, integrates and expands upon the Biomechanical, Neurological, Circulatory, Metabolic, Biopsychosocial and Energetic/Motility models of osteopathic manual therapy.

Open to licensed healthcare practitioners (physiotherapist, osteopath, occupational therapist, medical doctor, dentist, massage therapist, etc.), the complete training (405 hours) consists of a LEVEL 1 TRAINING (5 modules – 135 hours) and an advanced LEVEL 2 TRAINING 10 modules – 270 hours). To allow the student time for optimal practical integration of the new content and material provided, the LEVEL 1 TRAINING will be organized and offered over the span of the 2022 Calendar year. It will be assumed that the student will have captured and integrated the conceptual and practical content of LEVEL 1 and will have developed a skill level proficient enough to proceed with the more intense content and calendar of the LEVEL 2 TRAINING (10 modules, over the course of the 2023 and 2024 Calendar years.

The training program will be taught by Jonathan Ahladas, MSPT, IMTC, an American physiotherapist and direct protégé of Dr. Weiselfish with more than 20 years of experience in the field. Taking advantage of the fact that Jonathan lives and works in private practice in Madrid, Spain, one of the five modules of each level (dates to be determined) will be organized and taught in warmer and sunnier Madrid.

This training will offer quite a different approach than those courses on traditional physiotherapy concepts and classical and structural osteopathy techniques. Based on more than 40 years of clinical development, the content of this course stands out in that it will introduce completely new concepts of differential diagnosis as well as offering original and proprietary manual techniques. Based on the Integrative Systems Model, This course, in the LEVEL 1 TRAINING, will address the fascial system, the osseous and articular systems, the neuromuscular system and the lymphatic system, and will touch on aspects of the ANS and somatoemotional concepts. The ADVANCED LEVEL 2 TRAINING will delve into the realms of the circulatory system, the visceral systems, the craniosacral system and brain, and more profound somatoemotional dynamics.

As a treatment is only as effective as its diagnosis, throughout the training, time and emphasis will be placed on developing keen palpation skills and awareness of subtle phenomenon, such as body rhythms and tissue motilities, both on the physical and energetic (emotional) planes. By doing so, one will better be able to locate and identify specific tissue restrictions and energetic blockages, and the relationships between them as they relate to the clinical picture. All of the manual techniques taught in the training fall into one of two categories: 1) those in which form influences function (gentle and specific fascial fulcrum releases and multisystem positional releases), and 2) those in which function influences form (motility balancing/regulation and working with vectors/lines of force).

Upon completing the training, the student will have an overall vision and a significant number of practical manual diagnostic and treatment tools to carry out a comprehensive treatment tailored for each client. Integrative Manual Therapy is very versatile as it can be used in many clinical specialties, such as: sports medicine, orthopedics and trauma, neurology, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, dentistry, as well as for treatment of stress-related disorders and functional imbalances of the visceral and vascular systems. Due to the gentle nature of its application, IMT can be applied to any and all patient populations, from a newborn baby, to a competitive athlete, to a very fragile elderly person, and can be used as a main tool in clinical practice, being a complete method in and of itself.

For those therapist and practitioners who have been looking for something different, a change and boost to your clinical practice, this course is for you! We invite you to BE different and change your PERSPECTIVE! In order to allow for an optimal learning environment, the course will be limited to a maximum of 16 students. We look very much forward to seeing you.