Biomechanical Principles for Optimized Patient Care (4 CE)

Instructor: Dr. Timothy Mirtz DC, PhD – Associate Professor

Learn evidence-based concepts to connect biomechanical theory with practical clinical applications. From locomotion to ADLs, biomechanic principles bridge structure and function to guide movements of every living system. We’ll learn a framework to understand the biomechanical principles influencing static posture and dynamic motion. Introducing the biopsychosocial factors influencing real-world behavior, biomechanic concepts are applied to enhance patient assessment and individualizing passive care and rehabilitation strategies for more effective care and compliance across diverse patient populations.

Integrating psychological principles with biomechanical fundamentals provides clinicians an enhanced perspective to influence patient outcomes. Neuroplasticity and other somatic and psychological changes in response to external stressors is discussed.

Understand practical applications of biomechanical principles crucial for chiropractic assessment and intervention. Fundamental concepts of biomechanics provide insights to sharpen clinical reasoning, assessment, interventions and self-care.

Interactions of forces impact normal global movement and local motion. Trauma and other factors influence these forces. Physicality of biological responses to load are explored.

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