Pediatric Seminars

This course will teach the Pediatric Therapist the skills of Total Motion Release on children. It will be taught both by Susan Blum, PT - Pediatric Therapist & Tom Dalonzo-Baker, MPT (Founder of TMR). You will receive 30 credit hours for this course. The seminar meets Sat 8am - 6 pm, and Sunday 8am - 2pm. There is Pre & Post Seminar work that will be sent to you via a DVD. It is recommended you do the Pre-Seminar Work on yourself prior to the seminar, so that you know the basics of TMR.

Total Motion Release is a doing an amazing job with children with Torticollis. Check this out.

Summary of the Video:
Child is 9 month old w/ torticollis who had been treated with weekly PT by previous therapist from age 6 month to 9 months. After reported small improvement with traditional approach she stopped progressing and developed aversion to touch in left neck area.

First segment is visit #1
Neck rotation to the left was 60 degrees and lateral flexion to the right was zero. Note severe associated limitations in range of motion in trunk - Initially she only had 15% upper trunk twist to right and 30% trunk side bend.
Functional limitation: unable to rotate to the left side in highchair. In middle segment child thinks she's relaxing and playing with phone. She's not aware that this is a treatment (modified sidelying lower trunk twist- one of the Fab 5 releases that was most effective!

Improvement 50% noted at visit #2.

At each visit all Fab 5 motions were rechecked and home program of releases modified depending on rank. Therapeutic play activities in newly achieved ranges updated. Range of motion in neck was noted but there was no direct treatment to the neck.

Final segment is visit #5. After 5 visits with TMR approach dramatic functional improvement. Child is now fully mobile with 90% trunk twist to bad side in high chair and resolving torticollis!

Lot's more fun than painful stretching!

If you would like to email Susan with questions about TMR & pediatrics please do. She is also the one who did the pediatric webinar. Her email is susblum@aol.com and you can purchase the pediatric webinar by clicking here.