Certificate in Orthopaedic Manual Therapy

3rd European Edition - 3rd Sept.-28th Sept. 2012

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Here is a fantastic new opportunity to stimulate your clinical practice and enhance your career. Manual Concepts and Curtin University are offering a new partnership in post-graduate clinical education leading to higher education qualifications. Participants completing the 4-week Certificate in Orthopaedic Manual Therapy programme provided by Manual Concepts now have the opportunity to undertake distance-learning units through the School of Physiotherapy, which then accelerates completion of the Masters in Clinical Physiotherapy (Manipulative Therapy or Sports Physiotherapy stream). These qualifications lead to level 2 titled membership of either the MPA or Sports specialist interest group. This exciting new opportunity could be your stepping stone to an even higher professional status beyond level 2 entitlement, through to membership of the Australian College of Physiotherapists as a Clinical Specialist. 

For more details about further opportunities after competing the 4-week programme please download more information by clicking here. Alternatively you can visit Curtin Universities website for more details.


This comprehensive four-week programme provides clinicians with intensive tuition in an integrated approach to orthopaedic manual therapy of the spine, sacroiliac joints, hip, knee and shoulder girdle complex. Due to popular demand this course will be held for the first time in Europe, with the cooperation of Formaterapia, a continuous professional development company from Portugal.

The primary aim of the programme is to integrate joint, muscle and neural tissue based manual therapy concepts to provide a more functional and comprehensive approach to the management of a range of neuromusculoskeletal conditions.
This is a unique opportunity to be educated and closely supervised by our internationally respected team of clinical educators led by Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists Kim Robinson and Toby Hall.

The syllabus places particular emphasis on the spinal regions and related spinal pain disorders with relevant consideration of the shoulder girdle complex, hip, knee and pelvis/sacroiliac joints. This syllabus integrates a range of manual therapy concepts developed by many different manual therapists.

Kim Robinson and Toby Hall are the coordinators and course developers. Recently awarded Fellowship of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, they have 50 years clinical experience and have taught manual therapy for more than 15 years at a postgraduate university level. In addition for the last 15 years they have been teaching short manual therapy courses to physiotherapists around the world. Toby and Kim are the principal educators for the programme and guide participants through the comprehensive course content.

Participants are provided with extensive pre-course reading material and handouts to cover all aspects of the programme. Varied teaching formats, including slides, video and practical demonstration facilitate the learning and clinical reasoning processes. Patients, where possible, will be presented to the group to illustrate the clinical application of the approach.

Evidence based practice is a strong theme of the course. Participants are guided through a logical and clinically reasoned approach to the evaluation of the patients presenting condition. Participants are taught skills and techniques that enhance efficient and effective physical examination of a wide range of clinical presentations.

Participants completing the Manual Concepts 4-week Certificate in Orthopaedic Manual Therapy programme will be awarded credits towards advanced standing in the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Physiotherapy (Manipulative Therapy) and Masters in Clinical Physiotherapy (Manipulative Therapy or Sports Physiotherapy stream) offered by Curtin University of Technology. Those who wish to, and who have appropriate qualifications, are then able to enrol in the School of Physiotherapy's 3 distance learning units, "Anatomy & Pathology 751", "Management of Pain Disorders 752" and "Evidence Based Practice 750". These units are completed over 2-3 semesters (12-18 months). Each distance learning unit will incur an additional cost payable directly to Curtin University. Upon succesful completion of these units the participant will be awarded a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Physiotherapy (Manipulative Therapy). Further to completion of this course participants may be eligible to enrol in second semester (5 months) of the Masters in Clinical Physiotherapy (Manipulative Therapy or Sports Physiotherapy stream) to achieve this qualification. This would lead to level 2 membership of the MPA or Sports special interest groups of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.