Structural Medicine Approach to Client Treatment | Institute of Structural Medicine

The Structural Medicine Approach to Client Treatment

Donna Bajelis working a client to achieve optimal structural integration.

Learn How Structural Medicine Applies a Multidisciplinary Approach

This online series follows Donna Bajelis, PT, SMS and Joe Kelly, ACSMS, BCSI, GCFP, LMT, through a series of three client sessions. You will discover how Structural Medicine applies a multidisciplinary approach encompassing Physical Therapy and Structural Integration techniques to develop customized and highly detailed treatment plans to address the complexity of factors relating to client pain and dysfunction.

We’ve all got clients that are dealing with painful and complex issues. Maybe they’ve been to Physical Therapy, Massage, and even had surgeries, yet are still dealing with pain. This series will walk you through Donna Bajelis’s unique approach to working with clients. With over 45 years in the field of Physical Therapy and Structural Integration, you’ll go beyond the textbook approach to treating injuries and feel more confident assimilating your client’s history, testing, and structural patterns into a customized treatment plan.

In each client session, you will be introduced to Myofascial Length Testing (MFLT), which was developed by Donna as a way to assess myofascial meridians and how they create restrictions and rotations in the fascial lines of the body. By combining the client’s history, MFLT testing, visual assessment, and client goals, we will develop a clear treatment plan. You’ll observe the techniques and strategies implemented to untwist and lengthen areas of the body operating under compressive and shearing forces. At the end of each session, we’ll observe and discuss the changes in their structure, function, and MFLT results. Some sessions also have a bonus of movement re-education inspired by the Feldenkrais Method.

This class is for manual therapists (PT, OT, Structural Integration, Massage, Naturopaths etc.) that want to learn how to think more strategically about dealing with complex structural and functional movement patterns and how to create customized treatment plans to help clients find new alignment, awareness, and function.

Student’s Learning Objectives

Comprehend the frame of mind and reasoning behind the Structural Medicine Approach
Learn how to take and interpret a detailed client history
Visual assessment analyzing a client’s structure in gravity, both postural and structural
Myofascial Length Testing (MFLT) appropriate to the client’s pain complaints and organization of their postural patterns
Interpretation of Myofascial Length Testing and Movement Assessment
Developing a “hypothesis” to explain the client’s current physical, emotional, and mental state
Learn how to create a treatment plan
Manual therapy technique and treatment strategies specifically related to myofascial meridians and tensegrity.
Distinguish between Structural Medicine techniques and other modalities
Hands-on treatment skills to affect change in the myofascial structures to promote postural alignment related to pathology.
Exposure to three-dimensional thinking and treatment
Introduction to fascial lines influence and connection
Conclusion and future planning

What’s Included in the Series

Three recorded client sessions, each three hours in length.
Three 1.5-hour online live classes with Donna Bajelis and Joe Kelly to review the client session and have a live discussion. These will be recorded. Students can submit questions prior or wait until the live class.
MFLT Form for your own client sessions.
13.5 CEU’s from the Institute of Structural Medicine