Course Description
In this one-day seminar, clinicians will learn and develop the philosophy, principles and practical skills of this engineering system of the body. Students will learn to use three stages; first, evaluating static elements of posture as predictors of gait or dynamic movement patterns or gait and their probable resultant structural vulnerabilities. Next, the same dynamic patterns will uncover strategic movement compensations. Compensations become asymmetries in gait. Treatment will consist of a simple series of gait corrections designed individually to literally remodel the gait pattern. Finally, corroborative exercises will match each gait correction thereby helping to assimilate the newly established gait pattern. Ninety percent of your patient’s structural pain can be sourced in how they walk. This is a corrective intervention designed to restore functional balance to the body in the most repetitive movement pattern we use: gait.

Why You Would Take This Class
Reduce Treatment Frequency: This is a patient education system, as well as a way to evaluate, source and treat the cause of the problem, so that it doesn’t resurface. Patients/clients learn how with a mere hint of the problem, they can address it immediately themselves, using their specific gait corrections and exercises. Their symptoms become a built in biofeedback system.

Its Global: Corrective gait applies to almost all structural pain. Since clinicians also walk, they learn best through their own walking how individual gait dictates strengths and weaknesses. For patients with multiple aggravated body parts, this is a technique that connects and addresses all of them at once: In order to balance a sore and participatory link of any gait moment, you must assess the relationships between it and all of the other joints of the body for their contributions to the same gait moment. This makes this system the perfect prevention strategy; one that can often eliminate less constructive alternatives like bracing, surgery or extreme drugs.

Trust Your Eye
Learn to look through the perspective of posture, gait and balance, for weaknesses and inflexibilities and even shapes and contours that contribute to asymmetry in the normal movement pattern. Asymmetry leads to structural vulnerability, dysfunction and pain. This is visible and changeable by simple gait corrections and corroborative exercises.

Who Should Attend?
This seminar is ideal for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, athletic trainers, Pilate’s teachers and any health professionals with strong anatomy background.

Speaker
Sherry Brourman, PT is a Los Angeles based private practice physical therapist. She has thirty years experience which she used to author her book, Walk Yourself Well. Her book has been translated and published in Israel, Korea, Italy and the U.K. She has spoken at NASA, The American Back Society, The Institute for Integrative Medicine, The Los Angeles Health Festival and The University of Southern California, Rehabilitative Medicine. She was the Physical Therapy Crew Manager for the Avon 3-Day Walk for Breast Cancer for two years, contributing some fifty walking clinics for thousands of walkers. Sherry presently also teaches Yoga and Yoga Teacher Trainings at Exhale/ Sacred Movement Yoga Studio in Santa Monica, California as well as lay workshops of her ‘Walk Yourself Well” system. She also teaches nationally, presently scheduled for New York, Boston, San Francisco, Denver, Santa Barbara and Las Vegas.

CEUs/PDUs/Contact Hours
A certificate of attendance will be presented to each participant for 7 contact hours. The California Education Connection is recognized by the NATA Board of Certification to provide continuing education for certified athletic trainers. The NATABOC approved provider number is P2959. This course has been approved by the Nevada State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 0.7 units of continuing education. The State of California Board of Chiropractic Examiners has approved this course for 7.0 hours/no technique (CA-A-07-12-3885). This course also meets the requirements to offer continuing education units for Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Chiropractors in the States of Oregon and Washington.

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 & Cancellation Policies
The California Education Connection reserves the right to cancel or reschedule this seminar due to an insufficient number of registrants or other unforeseen circumstances. Under these circumstances, seminar fees will be returned in full to the registrant in the same method as the payment was received. Please note that the California Education Connection is not responsible for hotel, airline or other expenses incurred.

All cancellations must be submitted in writing. For cancellations received 14 days or more before the seminar date, the seminar fee will be returned less a $25.00 administrative fee. If, after registering, you decide you cannot attend the seminar, but want to transfer your spot to another person, there will be a $25.00 administrative fee.

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