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Treatment of Common Extremity Dysfunction Through Mobilization

Come learn how to make an immediate impact with your patients, even if their symptoms have been present for an extended period of time. This course will help you identify joint mobility restrictions that can contribute to common extremity dysfunctions and diagnoses, from the shoulder to the foot, which are often overlooked. So, you’ll learn to find the true driver behind extremity dysfunction rather than just treating its symptoms. We focus on using joint mobilization to normalize the stress on the tissues around different joints to immediately decrease stress and secondary pain. These techniques will take your understanding of extremity mobilization far beyond what you learned in school, but with enough practice that you feel confident implementing them into your daily treatments.

 

As with all our manual therapy courses, this course is at least 75% hands-on lab, and will give you skills you can use immediately upon returning to the clinic!

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Sat 17 May 2025

2 days, 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM

MI - Troy

Move to Success Physical Therapy
3150 Livernois Rd, Ste 165
Troy MI 48083
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Saturday, 17 May 2025 - Sunday, 18 May 2025

08:00 AM - 05:30 PM (2 days)

Presented by
Jeff Garbacz
  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 17 May 2025

2 days, 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM

MI - Troy

Move to Success Physical Therapy
3150 Livernois Rd, Ste 165
Troy MI 48083
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 21 Jun 2025

2 days, 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

OH - Toledo

Great Lakes Seminars
2768 Centennial Rd.
Toledo OH 43617
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Saturday, 21 June 2025 - Sunday, 22 June 2025

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM (2 days)

Presented by
Jeff Garbacz
  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 21 Jun 2025

2 days, 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

OH - Toledo

Great Lakes Seminars
2768 Centennial Rd.
Toledo OH 43617
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 21 Jun 2025

2 days, 09:00 AM EDT - 05:00 PM EDT

Live Hybrid

Jeff Garbacz

  • $600.00 incl. Tax
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Saturday, 21 June 2025 - Sunday, 22 June 2025

09:00 AM EDT - 05:00 PM EDT (2 days)

  • Live Hybrid
Presented by
Jeff Garbacz
  • $600.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 21 Jun 2025

2 days, 09:00 AM EDT - 05:00 PM EDT

Live Hybrid

Jeff Garbacz

  • $600.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 16 Aug 2025

2 days, 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM

NJ - Maywood

Hackensack UMC Fitness & Wellness Center
87 NJ-17 North
Maywood NJ 07607
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Saturday, 16 August 2025 - Sunday, 17 August 2025

08:00 AM - 05:30 PM (2 days)

Presented by
Jeff Garbacz
  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 16 Aug 2025

2 days, 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM

NJ - Maywood

Hackensack UMC Fitness & Wellness Center
87 NJ-17 North
Maywood NJ 07607
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 6 Sep 2025

2 days, 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM

NM - Santa Fe

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center
4801 Beckner Road
Santa Fe NM 87507
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Saturday, 6 September 2025 - Sunday, 7 September 2025

08:00 AM - 05:30 PM (2 days)

Presented by
Jeff Garbacz
  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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Sat 6 Sep 2025

2 days, 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM

NM - Santa Fe

Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center
4801 Beckner Road
Santa Fe NM 87507
United States

Jeff Garbacz

  • $650.00 incl. Tax
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At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:

  • Accurately explain the rationale for performing joint mobilization and its specific physiological effects
  • Explain and correctly demonstrate grading, oscillation techniques and sustained-hold techniques of joint mobilizations
  • Accurately identify the joint surface anatomy of each joint discussed in this course
  • Accurately explain the application of the joint surface anatomy to the mechanics of each joint discussed in this course
  • Demonstrate proper extremity mobilization technique, hand placement, and body mechanics during lab scenarios

At the completion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:

  • Accurately explain the rationale for performing joint mobilization and its specific physiological effects
  • Explain and correctly demonstrate grading, oscillation techniques and sustained-hold techniques of joint mobilizations
  • Accurately identify the joint surface anatomy of each joint discussed in this course
  • Accurately explain the application of the joint surface anatomy to the mechanics of each joint discussed in this course
  • Demonstrate proper extremity mobilization technique, hand placement, and body mechanics during lab scenarios

Saturday

7:30am
Doors open
8:00am
Lecture: Introduction, overview of anatomy, biomechanics, mobilizations
10:00am
Lecture: Discussion of hypertonicity vs adaptive shortening, tendinosis vs tendinitis, muscle weakness vs muscle inhibition
12:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm
Lab: The shoulder complex mobilizations
4:30pm
Review
5:30pm
Adjourn

Sunday

7:30am
Doors open
8:00am
Lab: Speed mobilizations
8:30am
Lab: The elbow complex mobilizations
10:00am
Lab: The wrist/hand complex mobilizations
11:15am
Lab: The hip complex mobilizations
12:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm
Lab: The knee complex mobilizations
3:00pm
Lab: The foot/ankle complex mobilizations
3:45pm
Case studies/speed mobilizations
4:15pm
Review
5:00pm
Adjourn

Please click here to check for CEU approval for the state(s) you are licensed in and your discipline.

Course Instructors

Jeff Garbacz

PT, DPT, CIMT

Jeff began his education as a physical therapist at Albion College where he received a B.A. in Sports Medicine with an emphasis on Biomechanics. He went onto the University of Michigan to receive his Doctorate of Physical Therapy. Jeff has extensive clinical experience working with the orthopedic population. He utilizes manual therapy in combination with a functionally based exercise to allow his patients to return to their prior functional level. Jeff’s philosophy in treating patients involves finding the origin of the problem versus treating the symptoms, allowing problems to go away and stay away. Jeff has trained the primary instructors for the Knee and Shoulder courses and is the primary instructor for the Extremity Mobilization course for Great Lakes Seminars. Jeff is the Director of Operations for Advanced Physical Therapy in Southfield, MI.

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What Attendees Are Saying

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It was an awesome course. There were some techniques I had already learned, but with much more refining, making it a way more valid reason to perform these. I was able to get a better feel of what to do and how to help people out. This is one of those classes where I'll be performing what I learned every day throughout the day.

Maywood, IL

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Enjoyed all the small clinical pearls the instructor shared from years of experience and that the course had multiple techniques to perform and achieve a desired outcome.

Maplewood, MN

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I think that this course was organized well and allowed ample practice of techniques and being able to apply them to patients we would typically treat in the clinic.

Detroit, MI

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The course was concise with information and did not get into the weeds with details. This helped to easily digest the material.

Portland, OR

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I liked the pacing of the course. Instructor made sure everyone understood and was able to perform the mobilizations decently. Also, how he related the mobs to actual common presentations.

Hackensack, NJ

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I thought the course was really good. I thought our instructor, Jeff, in particular did a great job of presenting/teaching the material but also challenging our clinical reasoning to learn when and how to apply the techniques from the class. I definitely appreciated that aspect of it.

Maywood, IL

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