Course Schedule

2022 and 2023

All of the courses will have weekly one hour Zoom sessions to support them which you are expected to attend or watch the recordings. These are included in the price.

OM 1 Clinical Reasoning in Spinal Diagnosis in Manual Therapy

Online Course with videos, manuals and videoconferencing.

Free for all licensed therapists, those awaiting licensing and physiotherapy students.

Jan 23-May 30 2022

The course will cover the clinical reasoning methods of diagnostics in the PT clinic along with details of the subjective and objective examinations taken through a new process, Script Focused Hypothetic Inference (SFHI), of reasoning with the ultimate aim of the therapists developing pattern recognition from it. The course use online webinars, videos and readings to cover the cervical, thoracic, lumbar spines and sacroiliac joint. 20 weekly sessions will be based around videos and topics pertinent to the course title and will encourage discussions. An optional examination will be available to those who want an objective measure of what they learned on this course. While the college will not endorse any courses, I can see no reason why this course should not be used for re-licensing purposes as ongoing competence.

Series 1 Spinal Manipulation CMT

Calgary 2022 Full license to practice in Alberta is the only prerequisite.

September 10-12
September 24-26
October 1-3
October 15-17

Edmonton Spring 2023

April 30
May 14-16
May 21-23
June 5-7

This four weekend course costs $2700, which includes all classroom instruction, videoconferencing sessions, manuals, PowerPoint, technique and other video, tests and examinations. The successful participant will be eligible to apply to the Colleges of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon and Nova Scotia, all of which have accepted this course and examinations for registration as a manipulative therapist.

Included in the course are weekly one hour Zoom sessions to support the classroom sessions, which you are expected to attend or watch the recordings. These are included in the price.

No prerequisite other than having either a full license or a courtesy license from the College of Physical Therapists of Alberta.

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Series 2: Advanced Manual Therapy ACMT

This course runs over two modules in two separate weekends. The modules are M2 Peripheral Manipulation and M3 Advanced Upper and Lower Quadrants. Each course may be registered for independently although the M4 has Series 1 and Series 2 M3 as prerequisites. M2 may also be taken as a stand-alone course with no perquisites and is open to therapist and final year students.

Series 2: M2 Peripheral Manipulation (No prerequisite)

May 21-22 Edmonton 2022
June 4-5 Calgary 2022

This 2-day course is part of the Series 2 but is also stand alone. The cost of this course is $$600, which includes all classroom instruction, videoconferencing sessions, manuals, PowerPoint, technique and other video, tests and examinations. The course can be used later to complete Series 2 along with M3 and the examinations.

Series 2: M3 Advanced Upper and Lower Quadrant. (Prerequisites are Series 1 and Series 2 M3) ACMT

This 2.5 day course covers advanced clinical reasoning and techniques in diagnosis and etiology searches for remote and hidden causes of the patient’s complaints. This was a four day course but with videoconferencing and directed study the time and the cost can be reduced to two and a half days. The completion of the directed study and videoconferencing, the M2 and 3 classroom sessions and the examinations will allow Swodeam Institute to certify the participant as an Advanced Manual Therpist (ACMT). Cost of this course is $600, which includes all classroom and videoconferencing session, materials and examinations.

August 26-28 2022

Advanced Spinal Manipulation Course M4

June 11-12 Calgary 2022
Spring 2023 Edmonton dates TBA

This 2-day course can be stand alone for those who have taken Series 1 and wish only to learn new techniques but for those who have successfully completed Series 2 the course and examinations will lead to the Diploma in Manual Therapy (Dip. MT).

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For further information on these course or registration please contact Sue Meadows at mexicalisue51@gmail.com

Or you can phone Jim Meadows at 855 SWODEAM (796 3326) or 403 910 5466