AMP Knowledge Project: Evidence, Insight & Management of Cervical & Thoracic Disorders
This course will focus on improving clinician ability to treat patients presenting with cervicothoracic disorders. You will learn select high yield manual therapy skills, supported by evidence, that you will use on a regular basis.
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Elevate Your Cervico-Thoracic Clinical Mastery
This hands-on course is designed to sharpen your clinical decision-making and treatment skills for patients with cervico-thoracic disorders. You’ll learn high-yield manual therapy techniques—evidence-informed, practical, and immediately applicable in your daily practice.
But technique is just the starting point.
You’ll build the ability to stage and classify patients, match them to the right interventions, and guide them through a progressive, exercise-based rehabilitation program that fosters self-efficacy, confidence, and lasting change.
Beyond the physical, you’ll develop the communication, listening, and alliance-building skills that set exceptional clinicians apart. Discover how to create a therapeutic partnership that enhances trust, boosts adherence, and drives better outcomes and satisfaction.
Walk away with a refined framework, a more confident clinical voice, and a toolkit that blends hands, head, and heart.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Confidently rule out serious and non-musculoskeletal conditions of the cervical spine to ensure safe, evidence-informed care.
- Classify and stage patients with cervico-thoracic pain into specific treatment pathways, guiding them through targeted, phase-appropriate interventions.
- Apply both thrust and non-thrust manual therapy techniques with proficiency and precision, grounded in current best evidence.
- Design and progress individualized, exercise-based rehabilitation programs that build capacity, resilience, and self-efficacy.
- Communicate and listen with greater intention, strengthening therapeutic alliance and enhancing patient trust, satisfaction, and outcomes.
- Integrate reflective habits into your clinical routine—adopting at least three new strategies that foster ongoing learning and professional growth.
Meet the Facilitators
Meet Steve Young, BSCPT, BA
Steve received an undergraduate degree from the University of Victoria before attending the McMaster University physiotherapy program in Hamilton, Ontario. He graduated summa cum laude in 1999 before returning to Victoria to work in private practice. He has extensive post graduate education, organizing and attending dozens of orthopaedic and pain science courses. He previously served as CBI Health’s Senior Clinical Educator for seven years on Vancouver Island and has taught continuing education courses throughout British Columbia and North America.
Meet Curtis Tait, BSC, MPT, IMS
Curtis has a bottomless appetite for food, exercise, learning and growing professionally. To this end he has taken courses in manual and manipulative therapy, IMS/dry needling, vestibular and neurological rehabilitation, as well as chronic pain seminars. Having worked in private practice, pain management, head injury programs, and in neuro-rehabilitation, Curtis works with all types of clients. Sports injuries, chronic pain conditions, vestibular, neurological and concussion presentations are all within Curtis' area of expertise. When not engrossed in the latest BJSM publication, Curtis loves spending time with his family and friends travelling around BC and the west coast finding adventures involving the beach and mountains. Having grown-up in northern BC and the Yukon he relishes any chance to play in the snow, and has maintained a love for board sports, basketball, rock climbing, CrossFit and anything involving creative movement.
Curtis has a bottomless appetite for food, exercise, learning and growing professionally. To this end he has taken courses in manual and manipulative therapy, IMS/dry needling, vestibular and neurological rehabilitation, as well as chronic pain seminars. Having worked in private practice, pain management, head injury programs, and in neuro-rehabilitation, Curtis works with all types of clients. Sports injuries, chronic pain conditions, vestibular, neurological and concussion presentations are all within Curtis' area of expertise. When not engrossed in the latest BJSM publication, Curtis loves spending time with his family and friends travelling around BC and the west coast finding adventures involving the beach and mountains. Having grown-up in northern BC and the Yukon he relishes any chance to play in the snow, and has maintained a love for board sports, basketball, rock climbing, CrossFit and anything involving creative movement.