Don’t miss out on the latest happenings... Remember to contact us with your change of address! NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID Syracuse, N.Y. Permit No. 3893 Time Dated Material: Please Deliver Promptly How to Contact Us Address: The McKenzie Institute USA 600 E. Genesee St., Suite 124 Syracuse, NY 13202-2132 Phone: 315-471-7612 800-635-8380 Fax: 315-471-7636 Internet: http://www.mckenziemdt.org Board of Directors Ted Dreisinger MS, Ph.D. Chairman Preventive Care, Jefferson City, MO Dan Kelley PT, Dip.MDT, Vice Chairman St. Louis P. T. & Sports Medicine St. Louis, MO Maryann Winters CPA Treasurer, Partner, Baasch, Winters & Breen, P.C. Syracuse, NY Patrick Pedro Attorney Secretary Partner, Bond, Schoeneck & King, LLP, Syracuse, NY Robert Colley MS Syracuse University Continuing Education, Syracuse, NY Ron Donelson MD, Dip.MDT Hanover, NH Elaine Gilman PT, Dip.MDT St. Petersburg, FL Dana Greene PT, Dip.MDT Summit Physical Therapy, Syracuse, NY Carol Harnett MS The Hartford Insurance Co. Simsbury, CT Stacey A. Lyon Executive Director McKenzie Institute USA McKenzie Outcome Tool We Need to Hear From You! The McKenzie Institute has been in the development stages with an outcome tool (McKenzie Outcome Tool or �MOT’) for the past year and a half. It has had an initial beta test both in the US and Internationally in selected McKenzie certified clinics. Do you have a testimonial about why the McKenzie Method has benefited your practice and your patients? Any interesting patient stories? How you have successfully marketed to physicians and insurance companies promoting your certification in McKenzie? We’d like to reprint your story in the SpineLine or the Journal. Our Journal and Spineline deadlines for 2000: We would like to do a final beta test here in the US to see how well it will work in �live clinics’. However, please understand this is only to gather data to finalize our database development and reports will not yet be available. Journal Vol. 8, #1 Vol. 8, #2 Vol. 8, #3 Vol. 8, #4 Copy 1/15/00 4/1/00 7/1/00 10/1/00 Mailing 2/15/00 5/1/00 8/1/00 11/1/00 Beta testing always takes some time and requires certain conditions to be met. Anyone who has taken at least McKenzie Part A is welcome to test the McKenzie Outcome Tool (MOT) providing that you commit to sending data on 10 patients within 6 weeks of receipt. Spineline Vol. 4, #2 Vol. 4, #3 Vol. 4, #4 Copy 5/1/00 8/1/00 11/1/00 Mailing 6/1/00 9/1/00 12/1/00 If you are interested, please contact MIUSA by February 18, 2000 at 1-800-635-8380 for a copy of the instrument and instructions. And it’s never too late to join The McKenzie Institute, USA so you don’t miss out on the great member benefits – especially with the conference coming up! For only $125 a year, you can’t go wrong! What (Note: outside the US $145 per year and are you our NEW student rate is $65 per year.) waiting for? Join Today. Volume 4; Number 1 • Winter 2000 line The Newsletter of the McKenzie Institute USA Our commitment is to continue to encourage completing the Program of Certification in the McKenzie Method. Without completing the core education of the McKenzie system through the McKenzie Institute (4 successive courses and passing the Credentialing Examination) the resulting use is not likely to be a fair representation of the full extent of success using the McKenzie Method. How indeed can we as an organization and you as the grassroots of McKenzie certified practitioners tell the world – McKenzie works! We just keep on trying; one student at a time, one patient at a time. A Few Words of Inspiration Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn’t dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean. As he got closer he called out, “Good morning! What are you doing?” The young man paused, looked up and replied, “Throwing starfish in the ocean.” “I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?” “The sun is up and the tide is going out. And if I don’t throw them in they’ll die.” “But, young man, don’t you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it. You can’t possibly make a difference!” The young man listened politely. Then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea past the breaking waves and said – “It made a difference for that one.” There is something very special in each and every one of us. We have all been gifted with the ability to make a difference. And if we can become aware of that gift, we gain through the strength of our visions the power to shape the future. – Loren Eisley Our upcoming conference, Pathology-Practice-Outcomes, is just around the corner. We have scheduled some excellent practical workshops, and a great line-up of speakers, including Robin McKenzie. And new this year is the MD workshop, a don’t-miss for physicians. The conference is a not only a great educational opportunity, it is also a wonderful chance to do some networking with peers from near and far. We’ll have the MIUSA membership discount again, so if you’re not a member yet, now is the time to join! IMPORTANT DATES TO KNOW Deadline for registration is May 26. Act now and save $45 when you register before April 15 – pay only $450. Plus, save an additional 10% off with your MIUSA membership you pay just $405. After April 15, registration fee is $495. On-site registration is $525. Register early and save money! Hotel reservation deadline is May 10 – no exceptions. Beyond our block the hotel is sold out, so be sure to reserve your rooms early. The NEW MD workshop You’ve been asking what there is for your physicians… well, here it is! One of our new conference features in Orlando will be a special five-hour symposium exclusively for medical and osteopathic doctors. Doctors from the Orlando area not otherwise attending the full conference will also be invited to attend. The program will introduce and review McKenzie concepts and methods, discuss the role of the McKenzie approach within various practices and specialties, and include group participatory sessions focusing on patient assessment, both its performance and the interpretation of findings. Dr. Ron Donelson will chair the symposium with presentations by Robin McKenzie and other McKenzie-trained physicians from various specialties. Dr. Donelson is the Orthopedic Consultant and Research Director with the International Institute and holds Adjunct Faculty positions with the Departments of Surgery/Orthopedics and Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth School in New Hampshire. We intend for this to be a valuable networking and educational opportunity for all who attend. Brochures are now available. Call 1-800-635-8380 McKENZIE THE IN S TIT AL Another new year and still voices resound… “how do we reach physicians?… the insurance companies?” 2000 North American Conference in Orlando, Florida June 2-4 Stacey A. Lyon Executive Director Visit our web site for conference information and details! UT N A Word From Administration O E I N TER N ATI Clinical Corner By David Poulter PT, BSc., MCSP, Dip.MDT Make Noise �During’ and Listen Happy New Year, century and millennium to you! Hopefully the Y2K bug won’t have caused widespread world disaster, Armageddon will not have occurred, and this will be just another gloriously mundane day in your life. I wanted to pass on a very simple but very effective clinical tip for my first article of the millennium. Of course, if all the predicted bad things have occurred this could be my last article. Keeping things simple has always been an extremely effective educational approach. Over the years, I have observed over a hundred Diploma residents in clinical situations. One of the most consistent habits that I observe is the lack of noise on the patients’ part during the performance of repeated movements. Repeated movements should be an interactive sport. Prior to the patient performing the test movement, the therapist should explain in simple terms the requirements and roles of both parties. The patient’s role is to perform the exercise and “sing” the symptomatic response during the performance of the movement. The therapist’s role is to listen to the responses during and offer advice, assistance and coaching. Have you ever, or do you still use the following phrases after the patient has done 10-15 movements: “How was that for you?”, “What happened?”, “Did anything change?”, “Did your pain move?”, (ah! Yes, the old centralization prompt) “Does anything feel different?”, and (my favorite) “Does that feel better now?” McKenzie Study Groups Are you interested in participating in a McKenzie Study Group? If you live in one of the areas listed below, there is an established study group near you: Loma Linda CA Sacramento CA Southern CA Front Range CO Fairfield County CT Mid-Florida FL Pensacola FL Atlanta GA Central IL Chicago IL West-Central IL Michigan IN Univ of Kentucky KY Twin Cities MN Hendersonville NC High Point NC Exeter NH Mesilla Valley NM Syracuse NY Utica/Rome NY Northeast OH Portland Oregon Philadelphia PA South Central PA Austin T X Dallas/Ft. Worth T X El Paso T X Houston T X Northern Virginia VA Richmond VA To learn more about how to join an existing study group or to start your own study group, contact: Alyce Britton, PT, CertMDT dbritton@gte.net (714) 969-0301 Also check out: Online study group at: mckenziestudy.listbot.com To join: mckenziestudy-subscribe@listbot.com McKenzie Website: www.mckenziemdt.org For current study group information McKenzie Education Program 15 Day Certification Process Notice that all these phrases are in the past tense. As clinicians, we need to be able to effectively monitor the symptomatic response during mechanical testing. The only way to do this is ask the patient to report the response frequently whilst they are performing the test. Hence your questioning should always be in the present tense during the mechanical test. e.g., “What effect is this movement having on your symptoms?” Practicing and applying this simple discipline may change the whole clinical picture. It also allows the patient to understand the importance of monitoring their own symptoms during the mechanical test, so that when it becomes their treatment it remains safe and effective. The effective monitoring during responses also allows you to effectively measure the afterwards response, or the overall mechanical test response. Remember, make noise during and listen. Part A Part B MDT of the Lumbar Spine (28 Hrs.) MDT of the Cervical/ Thoracic Spine (21 Hrs.) January Austin, TX 1/13-16 Winston-Salem, NC 1/20-23 � San Diego, CA 1/22-25 � Ft. Myers, FL 1/27-30 Prerequisite: Part A February Peoria, IL 2/3-6 � Edison, NJ 2/10-13 � Baltimore, MD 2/24-27 Jackson, MS 2/24-27 March St. Louis, MO 3/2-5 Pomona, (LA) CA 3/9-12 Pompano Beach, FL 3/16-19 Bristol, CT 3/16-19 � Minneapolis, MN 3/23-26 April Evanston, IL 4/6-9 Staten Island, NY 4/6-9 Atlanta, GA 4/13-16 Denver, CO 4/13-16 Lebanon, NH 4/27-30 Flint, MI 4/27-30 January Houston, TX 1/21-23 February Tulsa, OK 2/4-6 Chicago, IL 2/11-13 � Boston, MA 2/25-27 March Ft. Myers, FL 3/3-5 San Diego, CA 3/4-6 Winston-Salem, NC 3/17-19 � Seattle, WA 3/24-26 Edison, NJ 3/24-26 April Austin, TX 3/31-4/2 Madison, WI 4/14-16 Baltimore, MD 4/28-30 Honolulu, HI 4/28-30 Part C MDT of Problem Solving (21 Hrs.) Prerequisite: Parts A & B January Staten Island, NY 1/21-23 � February Evanston, IL 2/11-13 � Atlanta, GA 2/25-27 March Syracuse, NY 3/4-6 � W. Orange, NJ 3/10-12 � April Cleveland, OH 4/7-9 Dallas, TX 4/14-16 Minneapolis, MN 4/28-30 May LaJolla, CA 5/5-7 Visit our web site for the most up-to-date information o “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.” McKENZIE THE S UT FUN N IN AL Don’t forget all the TIT E I N TER N ATI O to be had away from the conference activities… There’s never a dull moment in Orlando. The Omni Rosen Hotel is convenient to all the major attractions in the area. Here is just a short list of things to see and do: •Walt Disney World® including: the Magic Kingdom, Disney-MGM Studios, Disney’s Animal Kingdom and EPCOT •Universal Studios®: Escape, Islands of Adventure and CityWalk •Sea World® •Busch Gardens® •Fabulous golf courses •Church Street Station •Ben-Hur: The Musical (next door at the Orlando Convention Center) •Not to mention all the options on International Drive � Hurry – Filling up fast! art D DT of Adv. Problem lving Workshop (28 Hrs.) erequisite: Parts A, B & C uary Boston, MA 1/20-23 bruary LaCrosse, WI 2/18-21 (FULL) LaJolla, CA 2/24-27 � rch Syracuse, NY 3/9-12 � Philadelphia, PA 3/16-19 � Pensacola, FL 3/23-26 Credentialing Exams Prerequisite: Parts A, B, C & D Offered her creative genius for your enjoyment. �Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a creature did stir Not even a mouse Santa Whoaed,"This is a terrible matter" McKenzie concluded You must go lateral "OH OH OH There is hope" "No No No To the end you must go" "Donner Blitzen Prancer Bring me my bag" "Not till you sag" The sled glistened Toys were all packed And if you listened You could here Santa say Oh my aching back! As old St. Nick clung to the chimney He soon realized That this was the home of Mckenzie Into the home he groaned To find McKenzie next to the tree With a twinkle in Robin's eye He said ,"Santa you must prone lie" Santa rose to his feet and chuckled "Oh Oh Oh Thank you Mckenzie" And with a poof he was gone from that nook But not till Robin gave him a book And on this magical glistening night If you listen You will hear Santa say "Merry Christmas and to all a good night" Pre-Conference Credentialing Examination The good news is that we will again hold a Credentialing Examination on Thursday, June 1 prior to the conference. This has always helped to consolidate one trip to benefit from two important activities. And even better, we are offering a discount on the conference registration fee for those taking the exam AND desiring to stay for the conference. For more information, contact Cindy Butler at MIUSA 1-800-635-8380 April LaCrosse, WI 4/8 May Somerville, NJ 5/6 (FULL) y Diploma Course n the 2000 course schedule. St. Mary’s Spine Orthopedic and Sports PT, San Francisco, CA March Austin, TX 3/4 � ril Somerville, NJ 4/13-16 � Chicago, IL 4/27-30 Tulsa, OK 5/18-21 Elaine Huddon, PT, Cert.MDT February Atlanta, GA 2/12 � June Orlando, FL 6/1 (Pre-conference) ne Staten Island, NY 6/8-11 Post-Holiday Fun Sessions January 3 – March 17 April 3 – May 16 July 3 – September 15 October 2 – December 15 “Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation…people don’t learn by staring into a mirror, people learn by encountering difference.” -- Ronald Heifetz
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