Learn innovative solutions to resolve plantar heel pain

As a caring Allied Health Practitioner who treats plantar heel pain with manual therapy and exercise, I know you want to make sure your client has resolved their problem for good, so they can get back to what they love doing.

What happens if, despite your best efforts, your clients plantar heel pain doesn’t respond as you expected? You’ve tried everything you can think of, but their pain persists!

This situation can be frustrating for you and your client. The client might be feeling anxious and depressed about the impact this injury is having on their life and well-being.

You might be wondering how to solve this challenging problem and feel stuck or confused. You might ask yourself “What do I do next?” or “What am I missing?”, that would enable you to overcome the roadblocks to your client’s recovery.

If only you could solve this problem your job satisfaction and reputation will get a huge boost, and you’ll create grateful raving fans who’ll tell their friends and family about how you helped them resolve their plantar heel pain.

Imagine having a program that:

 

  • Could help you find what’s missing and how to manage it.
  • Provides a systematic process to help you discover the many anatomical sources of symptoms that could make a difference to the outcome and may co-exist
  • Helps you discover the how and why of the injury, which is unique to the individual.

Many practitioners make 3 key mistakes with their clients suffering plantar heel pain:

  1. Their assumptions get in the way of their thinking, assuming the plantar fascia is the primary tissue affected, and provide a “recipe approach”
  2. They don’t assess foot mobility
  3. They don’t look for contributing factors outside the foot

I’ve been helping clients resolve their chronic plantar heel pain for many years who’d been misdiagnosed as “plantar fasciitis”, and I’m still learning!

Learning what I needed to think, ask, assess, and do differently to help these clients resolve their plantar heel pain, forms the basis of this comprehensive and innovative course:

Learn innovative solutions to resolve plantar heel pain.

Why take this course?

This course is not like other courses you might have undertaken on plantar heel pain. It will significantly add to your current level of knowledge and expertise whether you’re a new or experienced practitioner, to enable you to resolve plantar heel pain.

You might be wondering what I mean by innovative solutions. Innovation occurs when we view a problem from multiple perspectives, which requires attention to the details and an appreciation of the bigger picture. This process brings insights that require different ways of thinking and some new tools in your toolbox.
This course teaches manual therapy and exercise informed by thorough assessment, clinical reasoning, and research to provide a tailored and strategic treatment plan, as no two conditions are alike.

You’ll learn:

  • to ask different questions to provide the clues others may have missed
  • the local anatomical detail in the foot and how to assess and restore mobility
  • learn integrative anatomy and how other parts of the body affect the feet

Having a mentor to guide and support you, with resources to use in the clinic, you’ll feel confident that you can provide a thorough assessment and tailored treatment plan, to transform your results!

Here’s what you’ll receive:

  • downloadable handouts
  • transcripts
  • worksheets
  • checklists and charts
  • clear demonstration videos
  • professional exercise sheets
  • practical resources to enable you to implement and practice what you’ve learned.

How would that make you feel? Sounds good?

Then read on…

In this course you’ll learn a systematic process to discover all possible anatomical sources of symptoms and how to treat these using manual therapy techniques that will allow you to work smarter, not harder, with exercises to augment your treatment.

I’ll show you how provide a time efficient and thorough assessment covering everything in my check list, which with practice, can be done in 30 minutes!

At the end of the course, you’ll receive my “done for you” Integrative Clinical Assessment Checklist and Ultimate Troubleshooting Guide

Recommendations of temporary off-the shelf orthotic devices and offloading principles will also be addressed.

Here’s what we’re going to do together:

The first 2 foundation modules will introduce concepts that may be new to you. We’ll apply these concepts in our assessment and treatment of plantar heel pain in modules 3-6. Module 6 will pull it all together with two challenging case studies and will conclude with your comprehensive Integrative Clinical Assessment Checklist and Ultimate Trouble-shooting Guide to support you in the clinic. You’ll never be left wondering “ What have I missed?” with tricky plantar heel pain again!
We’ll explore what it is to work at an advanced level and how to develop a problem-solving mindset. We’ll consider the impacts of stress on the therapeutic interaction and our clients foot pain. We’ll also expand your vertical and lateral thinking to broaden your perspectives to solve challenging cases.
We’ll explore the manual therapy framework for success and how you can work smarter not harder with manual therapy for the foot and ankle to protect your greatest asset, your hands! You’ll be introduced to the wonders of a low-level laser, the one tool I would not be without! You’ll learn how to perform effortless, fast, and effective myofascial release and joint mobilisation.
As our expertise develops, the more items we have on our vertical thinking checklist of possible anatomical sources of symptoms, which may co-exist. These are the WHAT of an injury and might include anatomical structures that are painful to palpate or refer pain to the plantar heel. These include soft tissues, muscles, bones joints, and nerves. You’ll be surprised how many items are on my list that have helped me identify and resolve my clients plantar heel pain. Let me share my secrets with you, so you too can confidently perform a thorough assessment of your client’s plantar heel pain!
This module explores the soft tissue and articular sources of symptoms, clinical tests, discovery questions, and lateral thinking to create tailored solutions. These are the HOW and WHY of an injury and include contributing factors that are individual to the client. This understanding and insight is critical for the client and therapist.
This module explores the soft tissue and articular sources of symptoms, clinical tests, discovery questions, and lateral thinking to create tailored solutions. These are the HOW and WHY of an injury and include contributing factors that are individual to the client. This understanding and insight is critical for the client and therapist.

In our final module we’ll consider how we integrate the research and clinical guidelines regarding plantar heel pain into clinical practice using multimodal treatment.

We’ll complete our integrative plantar heel pain clinical assessment checklist to identify contributing factors in the closed kinetic chain. This checklist will help you perform a fast and thorough assessment that flows, and with practice, can be done in 30 minutes.

I’ll present two challenging case histories who were successfully resolved using multimodal treatment and discuss treatment planning.

We’ll consolidate our Integrative Clinical Assessment Checklist and management of plantar heel pain to arrive at the Ultimate Troubleshooting Guide.

You’ll be amazed by what you’ll discover!

This course will enable you turn frustration into discovery and transform your results!

Is this course right for you?

  • This course is ideal for Allied Health practitioners who want to take their assessment and treatment of plantar heel pain to a whole new level, so you can solve even the most complex plantar heel pain cases
  • You’re thorough and diligent in your approach, and are committed to achieving the outcome that you and your client desire
  • You’re open to exploring new ideas and practice what you’ve learned
  • Because we are Allied Health Practitioners and everyone’s scope of practice is different, we often work as a team within our referral network to ensure our clients get what they need.
  • While you don’t need to have all the skills to treat what you find, you do need to identify them, so you can cross refer appropriately to those who can help. Your clients will thank you. I have worked closely with Physiotherapists, Podiatrists and Osteopaths in this way for many years.
  • Enrolling in this course allows you to “ TRY BEFORE YOU BUY” to ensure that the mentorship program is  right  for you.

If this sounds like you, then you’re in the right place.

If you’re not sure and would like to discuss the course with Robyn email me at robyn@afaat.com.au to arrange a15-minute chat.

Here’s what other practitioners have to say

Paula Luke,
Physiotherapist

Working as a senior physiotherapist with Robyn, what stood out to me was her generosity in sharing her time and detailed knowledge of anatomy. This helped me to really feel the soft tissues, to identify the many structures that may be contributing
to the problem, especially nerve entrapments. Her ability to ask her clients the right questions, and her problem-solving approach opened my eyes, and enabled me to achieve a dramatic increase my success rate from 40% to 90% in my treatment of foot and ankle injuries. I now feel confident I can tackle anything that comes through my door.

Robyn was instrumental in my learning and understanding of complex foot and ankle injuries. Her curious and caring nature has enabled her to not only to explore and understand the complexities of treating foot and ankle injuries but also the patience and insight to teach her tried and true methods to others. Her drive for ongoing learning is outstanding and her genuine interest in her clients and student’s well-being and understanding is truly appreciated. Robyn sharing her vast experience with the world through her course is a tremendous gift to the health care community.

Ali Gibson,
Physiotherapist & Podiatrist

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