TORC: Technique.  Overload.  Recovery.  Consistency.   

This truly unique course combines manual therapy with power lifting principles that will forever alter your therapeutic exercise prescription. Former Senior OrthoDiv Instructor Blaine Mackie will provide the knowledge and skills to effectively teach and rehabilitate any injured patient or performance athlete using concrete foundational strength movements. The majority of the course will be spent learning proper lifting techniques, including demonstrations and hands-on experience with bars, platforms and squat racks to practice proper squats, deadlifts, and accessory functional movements. Effective manual therapy treatment techniques to compliment the therapeutic exercises will also make up an important portion of the course.  After this course, you will be able to analyze lifting and movement physics, confidently train power lifters, Crossfitters, and other high performance athletes, and safely deal with a variety of lumbar pathologies that may affect these individuals. These principles can be applied to any athlete but are also intended to help treat any patient with back pain issues.  You do not need to be an experienced lifter to participate in the course, and there are no Orthopaedic Division Level requirements. 
 

IMASS Physical Therapy Classes

Jeff, B.Sc. (P.T.), Dip. Manip.P.T., F.C.A.M.T., B.Comm. and Blaine, B.Sc.(Bio), B.Sc.PT, Dip.Manip.PT, F.C.A.M.T., CFTII have created IMASS courses due to the fact that throughout their experience, there are few learning opportunities available that integrate many different avenues of manual therapy. One can appreciate that musculoskeletal pathologies are not just joint problems or muscle problems, but rather a conglomeration of problems ranging from articular, to neural, to myofascial. The courses in IMASS strive to develop rational decision making in a practical setting to improve and increase your technique choices in manual therapy. The IMASS movement is practically orientated, where our entire motive is to create a course series solely driven to maximize hands on experience.

Please use the contact information below to coordinate a course at your facility.

BLAINE MACKIE
B.Sc.(Bio), B.Sc.PT, Dip.Manip.PT, F.C.A.M.T., CFTII
Mackie Physiotherapy
3012 Arlington Ave.
Saskatoon SK S7J 2J9
Phone 306-955-7888
Fax 306-955-7871
Email blainemackie@shaw.ca

JEFF BROUSSEAU
B.Sc. (P.T.), Dip. Manip.P.T., F.C.A.M.T., B.Comm.
Brousseau Physical Therapy
#207 – 3502 Taylor Street East
Saskatoon, SK S7H 5H9
Phone 306-477-4881
Fax 306-477-4882
Email brousseauphysicaltherapy@hotmail.com

Classes for Professionals

We are quite pleased to be able to offer different classes for medical professionals.  If you are interested in booking a course for your clinic or practice, please contact Blaine to make arrangements.  He is currently offering the following courses:

• All In: A Three Part Series - “All In” is a course series in manual therapy treatment and strength training that is vital in creating technically-superior manual physiotherapy practitioners who have a philosophy of treating patients solely under the philosophies of manual therapy techniques, mobility models, neurofascial flexibility techniques, and basic to advanced strength training techniques.
  
• Myofascial Release - This course has been designed to provide the participant with theoretical and practical information and techniques in order to comprehend the myofascial system of the body. In understanding the nature and the response of myofascial tissue, the clinician can more adequately assess the needs of their clientele based on each individual’s presentation.
• Upper Quadrant Myofascial Release - This course extends from where the Introduction to Myofascial release course leaves off. Advanced upper quadrant techniques will be demonstrated and practically applied.
• Performance Strength Training to Assist in Injury Rehabilitation - This course is designed to assist physiotherapists and related Health Care Professionals in theoretical and practical concepts of strength training and injury, including but not restricted to: review of strength physiology, unique and advanced strength training concepts, biomechanical adaptation, and periodized programming concepts, all with consideration of “normal and abnormal” biomechanical movement. You will be educated and practice the movement patterns of key exercises for strength development. The course includes a manual, lecture, and a significant number of practical sessions .
• The Cervical-Shoulder-Thoracic Spine Course - Our cervical-shoulder course is designed to provide the clinician with an in-depth understanding of the clinical biomechanics of the cervical and shoulder girdle complex.
• The Lumbopelvic-Hip Course - Our lumbopelvic-hip course is designed to better equip the clinician with an understanding of the biomechanics/pathomechanics of the sacro-iliac joints, lumbar spine