Fastrack your success with foot & ankle manual therapy
This Advanced Foot and Ankle Therapy Mentorship Program is the culmination of over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience in foot and ankle injury management.
As a caring Allied Health Practitioner who treats foot and ankle injuries with manual therapy and exercise, I know you want to make sure your client has resolved their problem for good, so they can get back to what they love doing. What happens if, despite your best efforts, your client’s injury doesn’t respond as you expected? You’ve tried everything you can think of, but their pain and lack of movement persists!
This situation can be frustrating for you and your client. They might be feeling anxious or depressed about the impact this injury is having on their life and well-being. You might be wondering how to solve this challenging problem and feel stuck or confused. You might ask yourself “What do I do next?” or “What am I missing?”, that would enable you to overcome the roadblocks to your client’s recovery.
If only you could solve this problem your job satisfaction and reputation will get a huge boost, and you’ll create grateful raving fans who’ll tell their friends and family about how you helped them resolve their injury.
Fastrack your success with foot & ankle manual therapy and transform your results!
Imagine having a mentoring program that:
- Could help you find what’s missing and how to manage it.
- Provides a systematic process to help you discover the many anatomical sources of symptoms that could make a difference to the outcome and may co-exist. These are the WHAT of the injury and might include soft tissues, muscles, joints, and nerves.
- Helps you discover the HOW and WHY of the injury, which is unique to the individual.
- Learn the detailed anatomy and understand the biomechanics of the foot & ankle in a way that makes the complex seem simple and makes a difference to the outcome.
- Their assumptions get in the way of their thinking. They assume they’ve identified the problem, stopping at the first finding, and then provide a “recipe approach”
- They don’t assess foot mobility.
- They don’t look for contributing factors outside the foot and ankle
Course structure and outline
You might be wondering what I mean by innovative solutions. Innovation occurs when we view a problem from multiple perspectives, which requires attention to the details and an appreciation of the bigger picture. This process brings insights that require different ways of thinking and some new tools in your toolbox
This course is not like other courses you might have undertaken on foot and ankle injuries. It will, however, add to your existing knowledge and expertise, whether you’re a new or experienced practitioner, by broadening your perspectives to help you solve challenging cases. This practical course is designed to expand your viewpoint, knowledge, and skills to discover all possible anatomical sources of symptoms and contributing factors to a foot and ankle injury needed for a successful outcome.
In the four foundation modules I’ll guide you through a systematic problem-solving approach to the assessment and treatment of foot and pain and injury.
Each foundation module is conveniently broken down into short PowerPoint presentations with quick quizzes to help you recall useful information in your working memory. The practical video demonstrations, notes, checklists, professional resources, and case studies will help you apply this knowledge in the clinic.
Throughout the foundation modules you’ll become the detective, as you search for clues to solve two challenging case histories who’s conditions were successfully resolved. The foundation modules are designed to build on one another and need to be undertaken sequentially.
In the three applied modules that follow, we’ll apply the approach developed in the foundation modules to expand your assessment and treatment of many seemingly common conditions affecting the rearfoot, midfoot and forefoot. These modules which can be undertaken in any order, take you beyond a ”recipe approach” to treatment and appreciate that no two conditions are truly alike.
The drop-down menus below will give you an overview of what you’ll learn and the results achieved.
This introduction to the course will explore the mindset and communication skills of an advanced therapist, and the framework for an integrated approach that will help you find the clues others have missed.
The result: Understand the physical impact of stress, and how to manage it, and develop new thinking strategies to solve complex cases
This module is designed to refresh and add to your existing knowledge of the complex integrated anatomy of the foot and ankle with applications to the clinical setting including:
- Movements used in assessment
- Bones, joints and ligaments and mechanisms of injury
- Muscles, insertions and trigger points
- Nerves and their entrapment sites
- Myofascial Meridians influencing the lower limbs
- Biomechanics research and implications for treatment
The result: The short videos and quizzes will help you retain and access the details in your working memory that make a difference to the outcome.
In this module you will learn to expand your assessment of local and remote areas of the body which may
contribute to foot and ankle pain. This will include:
- Postural and functional assessment of the whole body
- Assessment of alignment, mobility and muscle imbalances from the pelvis to the feet
- Identifying active myofascial meridians
- Neural tension testing and palpation of entrapment sites
The result: You’ll develop and communicate a strategic, tailored treatment plan to help your client achieve their desired goals.
In this module you will learn manual therapy techniques that help you work smarter not harder including:
- Trigger point therapy
- Myofascial release
- Joint mobilisation
- Neural mobilisation
- Specific exercises
The result: Your successful tailored and effective treatment plan will delight your clients with immediate results. Your judiciously selected exercise sheets, with right and left versions, will help your client augment your treatment and contribute to their own recovery.
Why do this course?
With a system that makes the complex seem simple, some new tools in your toolbox, and my support as your guide, you’ll be able to develop and deliver tailored treatment plans effortlessly and confidently, to enable your clients to achieve their goals.
That’s what drives us and brings us joy and satisfaction!
The professional exercise sheets in your course library will be a great asset that your clients will appreciate.
This course will be a valuable resource to you in your practice for years to come to help you achieve a new level of understanding of the integrated function of the foot and ankle with the rest of the body.
This is course will help you be the practitioner who solves the case.
This course includes:
- Downloadable videos and PowerPoint notes
- Labelled integrative anatomy images
- Muscle and trigger point charts
- Checklists to accompany the practical sessions
- Live Q&A and coaching sessions by topic
- Exercise sheets
- Workbook pages
Is this course right for you?
This course is ideally suited to practitioners who are:
- open to learning different ways of thinking
- prepared to reflect on their own ideas and processes
- hungry for new ideas and knowledge
- want to know the anatomical detail that makes all the difference to the outcome
- prepared to look outside the foot and ankle for the solution
- patient, life-long and self-directed learners
If this sounds like you, then you’re in the right place.
If you’d would like to discuss the course with Robyn email me at [email protected] to arrange a 15-minute chat.
Here’s what other practitioners have said.
Paula Luke,
Physiotherapist
Working as a senior physiotherapist with Robyn, what stood out to me was her generosity in sharing her time and detailed knowledge of anatomy. This helped me to really feel the soft tissues, to identify the many structures that may be contributing to the problem, especially nerve entrapments. Her ability to ask her clients the right questions, and her problem-solving approach opened my eyes, and enabled me to achieve a dramatic increase my success rate from 40% to 90% in my treatment of foot and ankle injuries. I now feel confident I can tackle anything that comes through my door.
Robyn was instrumental in my learning and understanding of complex foot and ankle injuries. Her curious and caring nature has enabled her to not only to explore and understand the complexities of treating foot and ankle injuries but also the patience and insight to teach her tried and true methods to others. Her drive for ongoing learning is outstanding and her genuine interest in her clients and student’s well-being and understanding is truly appreciated. Robyn sharing her vast experience with the world through her course is a tremendous gift to the health care community.
Ali Gibson,
Physiotherapist & Podiatrist
Fastrack your success with Foot & ankle manual therapy
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