NKT Symposium
A Celebration of Education and Community
NKT Symposium
Friday, Sep 18, 2015, 04:00 PM
Loews Coronado Bay Resort 4000 Coronado Bay Road, Coronado, CA 92118
Friday - September 18th
4:00 – 6:00pm - Meet & Greet
6:00 – 7:30pm – Dinner
7:30 – 10:00pm – Cookie Bake Off
Saturday - September 19th
General Assembly
10:00–11:00am
Refining Manual Muscle Testing
David Weinstock
Learning how to refine your testing in supine, prone, seated, and standing.
Level 1
Shoulder
Eric Nelson
This workshop will consist of a review of the functional anatomy of the shoulder, a review of the shoulder testing protocols, a rationale for knowing what and when to test, a strategy of identifying possible compensations, and more!
Level 2
11:00am-1:00pm
Pelvic Floor
Kathy Dooley
Common patterns and causes of facilitation and inhibition
Pelvic Floor anatomy and function
Proper testing protocols
Corrective regressions and progressions (supine/prone, quadruped, tripod, standing)
Level 3
Shoulder
Thomas Wells
Thomas will be providing his take on corrective techniques for the shoulder. Advanced assessment techniques, palpation, anatomy and kinesiology all brought to bear with the powerful new DOD protocols. This will take your results with the shoulder to a whole new level.
General Assembly
2:30-3:30pm
Approaching the Limbic System
Carolyn Watson
Learn how to anticipate which situations are more likely to produce a response from the limbic brain, and what actions can be taken to help patients and clients feel safe during treatment.
This presentation consists of two parts:
· Treatment Triage, where strategies for reducing the fight or flight response within an NKT session are covered. Interventions with weighted blankets, aromatherapy, acupressure, and guided breathing will be presented.
· Limbic Restoration, where techniques such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), auricular acupuncture, and breathing patterning will be demonstrated and discussed as long-term strategies for resolving underlying emotions and traumas which may be involved in observed NKT patterns.
Level 1
3:30–5:00pm
Working with Scars
Carolyn Watson
Gain an understanding of how scars are formed and how they may impact motor control in this lecture designed to give a Level 1 student a basic toolkit for dealing with one of the most fascinating and important players in NKT. We will learn release techniques that can be utilized by those with “licenses to touch” as well as techniques for those NKT practitioners which must operate in fitness/yoga/Pilates environments.
Level 2
3:30-5:00pm
Breathing & Performance
Ruben Serrano
Your respiratory system is your number one survival reflex. Your body will trample over any obstacle in order to breathe properly. In this hands on presentation, we will look at respiratory system components: muscular, fascial, osteo-articular and functional aspects of the respiratory system. How to evaluate proper breathing mechanics, which structure may be involved in a dysfunctional manner and how to address them.
Level 3
3:30-5:00pm
Pediatric Gait
Jamie Francis
Learn about the normal developmental patterns in children's gait, as well as differential diagnoses for common, normal variations versus pathological variations. Further detailed discussion of pathological variations common in the pediatric population and strategies for addressing them with NKT.
Sunday - September 20th
General Assembly
10:00am –11:00am
Anatomy of the Hip Joint
Kathy Dooley
Hip Anatomy:
- Bony anatomy
- Ligamentous anatomy
- Muscular anatomy with eccentric and concentric contraction patterns
- Common pathological conditions
- How NKT can help
Level 1
“Hip Jam”
Kathy Dooley
Hip Compression
- Common patterns/causes
- Common facilitators
- Commonly inhibited structures
- Proper testing protocol
- Corrective strategies
Level 2
11:00am-1:00pm
Orthopedic Assessment of Hip Joint
Len Ershow & Eric Nelson
Orthopedic conditions of the hip not only cause pain, they alter the way the hip bears weight, alters gait and causes wide spread compensations throughout the body. This course will look at the congenital and acquired orthopedic conditions of the hip, their common symptom presentations, compensations, muscle imbalances and how to evaluate them orthopedically.
Level 3
11:00am-1:00pm
Pelvic Ligaments
Noah Drucker
Presenting the role of ligament-to-ligament pairings as a root cause of muscular inhibition and how to clear these dysfunctions using level 3 protocols. Special consideration will be given to the ligaments of the pelvis: sacrospinous, sacrotuberous, sacrococcygeal, iliolumbar, sacroiliac, pubic, and inguinal. Anatomy and palpation will be covered in detail, as well as common pairings."
General Assembly
2:30-3:30pm
RockTape with NKT
Perry Nickelston
What is Rocktape Kinesiology Tape? How tape affects the brain?
Taping movement patterns. Taping for facilitation and inhibition.
Taping for core activation. Incorporating into NKT treatments
Attendees get 60% off Rocktape orders
Level 1
3:30–4:30pm
Corrective Exercise
Perry Nickelston
What’s the neural edge?
Breathing baseline for correctives
Patterning
Low threshold correctives
Common questions
Using position and resistance (4 matrix)
Level 2
Shoulder Correctives
Celio Silva
This workshop will explore movement as a tool to assess and correct shoulder dysfunctions. Functional anatomy will be covered as well as manual muscle testing in multiple positions. Relationships between the shoulder and the rest of the body will be highlighted and integrative corrective exercises will be demonstrated in both open and closed kinetic chains.
Level 3
3:30–4:30pm
Reverse TL
Thomas Wells
Thomas introduces his powerful new technique for finding an mapping dysfunction in the body. He calls it reverse TL. Learn how and when to employ this game changing tool.
Closing Ceremonies
David Weinstock
Wrap-up, thank yous, and goodbyes