Gait For Pain Relief: Advancing to The Next Step

This is the Advanced Version of Using Gait For Pain Relief, in which both technical reasoning for gait corrections and lab work will build upon previous knowledge creating more accessibility of the Primary Movement Balancing, or gait system. In order to move to a level where quick and astute determinants of the elements of gait can be used for their predictability of structural pain, the following techniques will be covered on this course:

In order to attend this course, you must have completed the fundamental class, Using Gait for Pain Relief

9:30 Demonstration using class participant: complete evaluation including: silent observation, understanding Primary Movement Patterns

10:00 Appropriate line of questioning for bridging yours and your patients sense of movement and its healing capacities within Primary Movement Balancing (PMB)

11:00 Static and Dynamic Gait Evaluations by participants, and supervised by Instructor

1:30 Understanding the global nature of PMB, application to other sports and activities

2:00 Scanning, choosing, combining and implementing gait corrections, using PMB systems

2:30 Seeing, planning and implementing short and long term goals using PMB systems

3:30 Understanding the culprits: Determining appropriate corroborative exercises, for strength and for flexibility

4:30 Clarifying yours' and your patients' sense of what this means, and how it works

ATCs, OTRs, COTAs, PTs , PTA's, DCs, Yoga Therapists, Acupuncturists, MDs and any heath professional with depth of anatomy knowledge and experience.

Sherry Brourman, PT, E-RYT 500, has been a practicing Physical Therapist for thirty-five years and a yoga teacher, teacher trainer and yoga therapist, for twelve years. Her groundbreaking book Walk Yourself Well, published in 1998, drew international acclaim, thrives today, and is the subject of a formal university level study. Sherry is also the Fitness and Walking shoe advisor for Skechers, USA.

A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and recognized by Yoga Alliance at the E-RYT 500 level, Ms. Brourman is the director of her own clinic where Physical Therapy, Gait Therapy and Yoga Therapy are all used as individual modalities or in confluence. Sherry has two Mentorship programs underway, one for Gait Therapy practitioners and one for Yoga Therapists. She teaches internationally, teaches structural anatomy at the Loyola Marymount Yoga Therapy Certification program, as well as for several Yoga teacher trainings, and teaches workshops and seminars incessantly.

Sherry has recently been interviewed and written about in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Natural Health Magazine, Spa Magazine, and Samata International’s new magazine. She has spoken at NASA, The American back Society meeting, The Institute for Integrative medicine, The Los Angeles Health Festival, And SYTAR, The Symposium for Yoga Therapy and Research.

A certificate of attendance will be presented to each participant for 7 contact hours. The California Education Connection is recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education for CERTIFIED ATHLETIC TRAINERS. The BOC approved provider number is P2959. This course is eligible for 0.7 CEUs from the AOTA. The AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. This course will also count toward the PDU requirement for OTRs / COTAs in the State of California. This course will also assist in completing the required continuing education for the Yoga Alliance. The State of California Board of Chiropractic Examiners has approved this course for 7.0 hours/no technique (CA-A-09-06-4616).

Early Registration Deadline

The registration deadline for all courses is three weeks prior to the start of the course. All registrations must be postmarked or received three weeks prior to the course date, if received after the registration deadline, a $25.00 Late Fee will be applied to the registration fee.

Group Discounts

For every 5 people that sign up for the same seminar, we will give that group one complimentary spot.

How Do We Sign-Up and Qualify for the Free Spot?

In order to qualify for this discount, we must receive all six completed registration forms with the appropriate payment for the five spots. If you want to mail in the completed forms, you must mail all six forms in the same envelope. If you want to fax in the forms, you must fax all six forms at the same time.

Please note that there will be no exceptions granted. We must receive everything at once in order to process these registration forms under the group discount policy.

Refund and Cancellation Policies:

California Education Connection reserves the right to cancel this seminar due to an insufficient number of registrants. Under these circumstances, a full refund in the form of a check will be addressed and mailed to the registered participant. Please note that California Education Connection is not responsible for any hotel, airline or other expenses incurred.

All cancellations by registered participant must be dated and submitted in writing. For cancellations received 14 days or more before the seminar date, the registration fee will be returned less a $50.00 administrative fee. A refund in the form of a check will be mailed to the registered participant.

Within 14 days of the seminar, no refunds will be made. California Education Connection reserves the right to change a course date, location or instructor. If the seminar is either interrupted or canceled by an act of nature, war, or any issue beyond the control of California Education Connection, no refund will be issued.