Rethinking Manual Therapy and Exercise for the Tongue
Online Course: Rethinking Manual Therapy and Exercise for the Tongue
Course Description: Manual therapy has long been seen as an expert-driven stretching or tissue impact model that reduces or corrects local pathology. However, newer research positions manual therapy as a form of communication to the patient’s brain, allowing them to contribute to change. This course uses newer multifactorial impact research to position tongue-based manual therapy under the umbrella of such evolutions.Using a shared decision-making intervention model, this course will allow the learner to incorporate manual therapy in the tongue region for articulatory disorders, oral motor delays, post-surgical and post-radiation disorders, airway issues, and swallowing/voice concerns. This course teaches the most up-to-date tongue engagements taught in the in-person Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders In-Person class.
This 2-hour online course offers ASHA CEUs (0.2) and NCBTMB CEs (2.0). ASHA # ABIQ 2018
Learning Outcomes: The participant will be able to:
1. Describe how manual therapy influences reach far beyond correcting local tissue faults.
2. Tell how shared decision-making can be incorporated into manual therapy interventions.
3. Be capable of applying a range of tongue-based manual therapy interventions for the remediation of oral motor, swallowing, voice, and airway concerns.
4. Define how to combine tongue-based manual therapy with exercise to build awareness and function.
Timed Agenda●
25 minutes Overview●
30 minutes Approach 1●
15 minutes Approach 2●
5 minutes Approach 3●
15 minutes Approach 4●
30 minutes Approach 5●
5 minutes Wrap-up
TOTAL: 120 minutes
Instructional MethodsThis online course consists of lectures, demonstrations, and recorded in-person demonstrations. There is a quiz on completion of this 2-hour course. The learner must pass with a grade of 75% or higher.
Disclosures Walt Fritz has the following relevant financial relationships to disclose: He receives royalties from similar course content delivered through Talk Tools, Compton Publishing Ltd., and PatCom. He has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.