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Featured Course:

Advanced Standing Posture & Alignment Assessment: Biomechanical Foundations for Clinical Decision-Making
4.0 Contact Hours (0.4 CEUs)

Course Description:

This advanced continuing education course provides physical therapists with a comprehensive framework for assessing standing posture and alignment. Emphasizing functional biomechanics and chain reaction principles, the course deepens clinical reasoning and equips therapists to identify root causes of musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction.

From this course YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• Conduct detailed standing postural assessments using visual and palpatory tools
• Evaluate foot mechanics (rearfoot varus/valgus, arch types) and link them to knee, hip & spine dysfunction
• Correlate the subtalar joint (STJ) in the different phases of gait with hip & gluteal efficiency.
• Perform STJ Functional Movement Testing: assessing kinetic chain function from the trunk to pelvis to femur to tibia to Subtalar joint
• Recognize patterns like Lower and Upper Crossed Syndrome in real-world patients
• Interpret pelvic positioning (APT/PPT/obliquity) and hip torsion mechanics (ante/retroversion)
• Differentiate between structural vs. functional scoliosis
• Teach posture as a therapeutic exercise patients can integrate into daily life

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Why posture matters: Understanding the kinetic chain as a whole. Alignment linked to pain, patient diagnoses and movement patterns
• Clinical application of Wolff’s Law: implications for patient retention & compliance
• A deeper look at the foot – rearfoot deformities, pes planus/cavus, subtalar joint pronation/supination: its significance in gait and biomechanical effects up the chain
• Rearfoot, Knee & Hip cues in static stance: mal-alignments and clinical consequences up and down the kinetic chain
• Functional Movement Testing of the Subtalar Joint: Top – Down Drivers
• Pelvic, spinal, and shoulder assessment and asymmetry patterns