Refine your lumbar spine passive accessory intervertebral movement (PAIVMs) assessment and treatment skills.
Struggling to confidently pinpoint the symptomatic level in your patient’s low back? Want to make your low back pain treatment more targeted, systematic, and meaningful?
In this practical step by step guide, you’ll learn how to assess the lumbar spine using PAIVMs to guide your clinical reasoning and treatment planning.
You’ll discover:
- A step-by-step, evidence-based guide to assessing central and unilateral PAIVMs
- How to apply different grades (or ranges) of movement to identify tissue resistance and symptom reproduction
- Ways to modify your technique for patient comfort and clearer assessment
- How to identify segments responsible for your patients low back symptoms
- Tips to reduce strain on your thumbs and hands when applying manual therapy
- Techniques for patients with central, unilateral, neurogenic and referred pain
You’ll also learn how to:
- Accurately find lumbar landmarks using palpation from the sacrum
- How and when to adjust your direction of your PAIVM’s
- How to make your assessment more reliable and relevant
- Confidently identify when your patient will respond positively to manual therapy, and which techniques to choose, and when you need to avoid manual therapy
By the end of this session, you’ll have a clear, confident process to identify symptom-generating segments and tailor your manual therapy approach to each patient.
Watch now and sharpen your PAIVM skills to deliver more specific, effective manual therapy for low back pain.
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