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volusiapt -> Re: Total motion release (August 10, 2006 6:50:00 PM)
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I agree with Amy, Eric, and Julie. I took the course after noticing the advertisement in Advance Magazine and was intrigued by the claims. I went with questions and a mildly skeptical attitude. I have a background in utilizing strain/counterstrain, manual therapy techniques, LLLT, PNF, NDT...,you get the picture, with great success. I found that the TMR techniques are based in sound theory and are very easy to instruct patients and therapists. I have noticed progress with patients that I would not expect in 3 to 4 sessions. I have utilized the techniques for cervical pain and dysfunction on a 43 y/o woman with complete resolution of pain and dysfunction in 5 minutes. I did not even perform a manual technique or modality. After treating her neck, she asked about a hip injury sustained over the weekend, which she alleviated in 3 minutes utilizing TMR. Since that treatment she states that she continues to be pain free and does not notice any problems with the hip or neck, and she has not needed any treatment since.
Another patient 41 y/o male who sustained a R subscapularis tear with medial subluxation of the long head of the biceps tendon. He demonstrated 138* flexion, 130* abduction, severe limitation of shoulder internal and external rotation. Functionally he was unable to utilize his R UE with dressing and grooming. He was unable to perform any lifting greater than 5# without pain and demo severe pain at end range(actively and passively). He was considering shoulder surgery to repair the subscapularis tendon. After 4 treatments he demonstrated 172* flex, 169* abd, pain free functional internal and external rotation, also he is able to lift 25# pain free. Functionally he is able to fully utilize the R UE with ADLs and work duties. Now, he is not considering surgery and is extremely happy with his progress.
No, these are not the only patients I have utilized TMR with, however their results are typical with all of the patients I am treating with TMR.
All I can do is repeatedly state that the techniques work. For those who want proof and research, don't worry it will be there. The techniques that TMR utilizes are not new, however the process is, and it will take time for TMR to show up in literature.
This is my first time posting and I am not a paid endorser. I am a therapist who always questions techniques, theory, and what Physical Therapists' consider protocol treamtents and so called recipes for success.
For those who question if the techniques/process works, they have on 100% of my patients.
Questioning is a healthy part of the learning process and refining techniques/processes. We would not be the profession we are without critical inquiry.
For those who doubt, what about techniques developed and utilized by Mulligan (SNAGS, NAGS, MWM), Dr. Jones (strain/counterstain), Paris, Mckenzie, Williams, Kaltenborn, and others that have developed techniques used by a majority if not all Physical Therapists today. Do you doubt that these techniques work? Or is it that you have experienced the benefits of those techniques and utilize them for your patients' benefit.
I will tell you all this....there are many doubters of Physical Therapy interventions and necessity period! Many have indicated that the interventions we perform are not required and that the individual will heal in due time under the direction of a physician. That's why we are where we are today with reimbursement and the questions of the efficacy of our interventions. On the whole the question is, do Physical Therapy interventions work and where is the research to back them up? Sounds familiar????
With that in mind I would think that you would agree there are many techniques and interventions that we all use, including TMR, that need to be researched to prove and validate their value in rehabilitation for our patients to insurers, the medical community, our peers, and potential clients/patients.
In the course I took, there were several doubters and skeptics at the start....they left just the opposite. If you are a skeptic or doubter take the course from Tom and then take him to task in person. He would want you to do just that and question him about the process, techniques, and theories...that way you will learn and decide for yourself. I guarantee you and your patients will benefit from it.
For those who are posting in an attempt to learn the techniques.....do yourself and your patients a service and attend a course. I seriously doubt that any therapist can become proficient at techniques learned through posting. I, along with everyone else performing TMR, paid to learn the techniques and become educated for the benefit of our patients. To educate somebody through posting would do that person, myself, others that have paid for the course, and the developer/founder, Tom, a disservice.
If you have seen the article/advertisement for the course and you have posted a query, then you must be interested...so do yourself a service and go take the course.
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