Lab 6: Movement Medicine: Whole Spine Exercise Progression

This session will showcase how the physical therapist works through exercise progressions for cervical and lumbar spine dysfunction. Instruction and practice for a person who has severe and irritable pain (symptom modulation stage) through movement control and functional optimization will be covered. These three stages of rehabilitation will be demonstrated through a combination of self-treatment techniques focusing on pain management, joint mobilization, manually resisted exercise, and mat progressions of exercise. We will work on clinical reasoning and progression from day one to discharge and show how no weights or equipment are needed. This greatly improves patient outcomes and adherence to home exercise programs (HEPs).