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Exercises to complement manual therapy with Simon Olivotto

Exercises to complement manual therapy with Simon Olivotto

Maximise the benefits of your manual therapy with targeted, patient-specific home exercises.

What happens after the hands-on part of your treatment session? Manual therapy is one part of your treatment; how do you ensure that your patients maintain and build on the improvements they gained from it?

In this essential follow-up to your manual therapy treatments, you’ll discover how to bridge the gap between the clinic and your patient’s daily life with exercises and self-mobilisation that will keep improving your patients lumbar movement.

These exercises don’t just reinforce movement improvements—they empower your patients to take an active role in their recovery, reduce fear-avoidance, and build lasting confidence in movement.

In this practical step-by-step session, you’ll explore how to:

  • Match your manual therapy with the right home exercise dose and type.
  • Reproduce the pain-relieving effects of manual therapy at home.
  • Progress patients confidently, even those with higher irritability or chronic pain, by choosing movements that match the direction and intent of your hands-on techniques.

Importantly, this video highlights how manual therapy can act as a window of opportunity—even for patients with fear-avoidance or chronic symptoms.

By showing them that slightly painful movements can still result in positive outcomes, you shift the narrative from fear to functional progress.

By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:

  • Confidently prescribe home exercises that extend the benefits of your in-clinic treatment
  • Integrate manual therapy and active rehabilitation into a cohesive care plan
  • Build patient understanding, confidence and self-efficacy in movement

Watch now to ensure your manual therapy approach doesn’t end on the table—but continues with purpose, progress and patient empowerment.

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