KT4: Specialty Neurological Concepts of the Kinesio Taping® Method: Influencing the Adult Nervous System

(Prerequisite, completion of KTA approved KT1, KT2, and KT3 courses)

Course Description:

Course Description:
The KT4 Neurological course builds on and expands techniques learned in the KT1, KT2, and KT3 courses. This course addresses variations in nervous system status. The attendees will develop treatment strategies and practice extensive Kinesio Taping® techniques to address a wide variety of issues encountered when treating patients with neurological diseases. Some examples include: CVA, CP, ALS, MD, MS, and TBI. The course considers other physiological systems which impact patient considerations when working with the trunk and extremities. Developing, recovering, and deteriorating nervous system patients are investigated, strategies planned, and Kinesio Taping techniques practiced.

Course Objectives – after completing this seminar, student will be able to::

  • Classify three Nervous System Status types and Expectations for therapeutic
  • Develop treatment strategies, based on CNS status, utilizing Kinesio Taping applications to obtain desired
  • Practice specific, advanced, Kinesio Taping applications, including the EDF technique to the trunk and extremities after CNS status is
  • Understand sequential progression of Kinesio Taping techniques when treating adult neurological
  • Differentiate the rationale for Kinesio Taping applications used with adult neurological patients versus other patient
  • Develop successful, rationale-based strategies to treat the deteriorating nervous system

 

Course Agenda:

7:30am Sign In
8:00 – 8:10 Instructor Introduction and Bio
8:10 – 10:00 Types of nervous system, treatment strategy, evaluation of adult neuro patient, Kinesio Taping® assessments, trunk, movement patterns, postural alignment, neck and abdominal lab
10:00 Break
10:15 – 12:00pm
/td>		 Trunk lab continued, extremity control, special considerations, ortho neuro theory, nervous system status, EDF, developing nervous system, progressive/non-progressive
12:00 Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 Recovering systems, CVA, SCI, Guillain-Barre, trunk/scapula alignment, serratus anterior, humeral alignment, hand alignment, EDF lab
3:00 Break
3:15 – 4:30 Deteriorating systems, cardiovascular/pulmonary system, anterior diaphragm lab, pelvis alignment, hip, knee, and foot alignment, psoas lab, fascia correction, common problems, functional corrections, ACL lab
4:30 – 5:15 Case studies
5:15 – 5:30 Q&A

By KinesioTape

Kinesio® cannot be understood without understanding our story. Dr. Kenzo Kase developed the Kinesio Taping® Method in the 1970s to fill a void in the treatment options that were available at that time. He was searching for a way to facilitate the body’s natural healing process and prolong the benefits of his treatment after his patients left his clinic. Through his education as a chiropractor, his innate ability to sense internal pain and dysfunction through the skin and his creative therapeutic mind, Dr. Kase was able to develop new methods of treating his diagnoses. Among these methods, Kinesio® Taping industry was born and soon all other therapeutic elastic tape companies built upon Kinesio tape and methods.

The Kinesio Taping® Method is a definitive rehabilitative taping technique that is designed to facilitate the body’s natural healing process while providing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body’s range of motion.

Latex-free and wearable for days at a time, Kinesio® Tex Tape is safe for populations ranging from pediatric to geriatric, and successfully treats a variety of orthopedic, neuromuscular, neurological and other medical conditions.

If it doesn’t say Kinesio®, its not the real thing