by samantha | Oct 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Overview
Once you complete Level I and Level II and have treated greater than 180 hours clinically in your solo practice, you are qualified to sit for your practical exam.
Required Pre-Requisites
All students must hold and maintain an active PTA or OTA license in the state they practice their specialty in. Students are required to upload their license at checkout
Frequently Asked Questions
I am a SPTA or SOTA can I take the course while I am in school?
No, you must hold an active license to register for this specialty course.
What will taking this course allow me to do differently than I do now as a PTA or OTA?
This course provides a PTA or OTA a specialty certificate in assisted stretching and mobility. Providing you advanced education and training to allow you to go solo without a PT or OT while aligning with your PTA or OTA license.
What ways can I use my assisted stretching and mobility certificate?
This certificate provides you with skills necessary to work with any population outside insurance based PT/OT care. Typical but not at all inclusive: Specialize in senior fitness, Kidfit, work with athletes working alongside athletic trainers and PT’s, work in AL or IL senior facilities providing stay in place care to decrease the progression of sarcopenia in the senior population. Work in PT, or chiro clinics providing specialized programming for the complex client, Work in gyms, and personal training studios, fitness centers and yoga or pilates studios to offer 1:1 care or group class offerings that align with your state license.
How long will it take me to earn my specialty certificate?
The certificate program is a learn at your own pace program. Allowing you to learn as you work in your current position. Then when you have completed your certificate course you can join our solo business academy for PTA, OTA assisted stretching and mobility certificate holders.
by samantha | Oct 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Course 2
Exercise Prescription for the Senior Client Certificate Course
(6 CEU’s)
Overview Of The Course
The exercise prescription for the senior client certificate course offers the PTA and COTA the ability to learn at their own pace how to program muscles that have been affected by the deconditioning cycle. Using the Stretch Methodology through an online training allows you to learn as you work.
Inside the exercise prescription for the senior client certificate course.
Lab sessions focus on problem solving, progression and regression analysis of exercises, based on presentation Combined with coaching strategies.
Development of evidence based programs
For complex clients, considerations of health and wellness parameters of care for the PTA, OTA.
Required Pre-Requisites
All students must hold and maintain an active PTA or OTA license in the state they practice their specialty in. Students are required to upload their license at checkout
Frequently Asked Questions
I am a SPTA or SOTA can I take the course while I am in school?
No, you must hold an active license to register for this specialty course.
What will taking this course allow me to do differently than I do now as a PTA or OTA?
This course provides a PTA or OTA a specialty certificate in assisted stretching and mobility. Providing you advanced education and training to allow you to go solo without a PT or OT while aligning with your PTA or OTA license.
What ways can I use my assisted stretching and mobility certificate?
This certificate provides you with skills necessary to work with any population outside insurance based PT/OT care. Typical but not at all inclusive: Specialize in senior fitness, Kidfit, work with athletes working alongside athletic trainers and PT’s, work in AL or IL senior facilities providing stay in place care to decrease the progression of sarcopenia in the senior population. Work in PT, or chiro clinics providing specialized programming for the complex client, Work in gyms, and personal training studios, fitness centers and yoga or pilates studios to offer 1:1 care or group class offerings that align with your state license.
How long will it take me to earn my specialty certificate?
The certificate program is a learn at your own pace program. Allowing you to learn as you work in your current position. Then when you have completed your certificate course you can join our solo business academy for PTA, OTA assisted stretching and mobility certificate holders.
by samantha | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Course 1
Stretching Certificate Course
(6 CEU’s)
Overview Of The Course
The stretching course offers the PTA and COTA the ability to learn at their own pace how to provide stretching to a body that has been affected by the deconditioning cycle. Using the Stretch Methodology through an online training allows you to learn as you work.
Lab sessions focus on problem solving, progression and regression analysis of assisted stretching and mobility based on client presentation combined with coaching strategies and education.
Development of evidence based programs
For complex clients, considerations of health and wellness parameters of care for the PTA,OTA.
Required Pre Requisites
All students must hold and maintain an active PTA or OTA license in the state they practice their specialty in. Students are required to upload their license at checkout
Frequently Asked Questions
I am a SPTA or SOTA can I take the course while I am in school?
No, you must hold an active license to register for this specialty course.
What will taking this course allow me to do differently than I do now as a PTA or OTA?
This course provides a PTA or OTA a specialty certificate in assisted stretching and mobility. Providing you advanced education and training to allow you to go solo without a PT or OT while aligning with your PTA or OTA license.
What ways can I use my assisted stretching and mobility certificate?
This certificate provides you with skills necessary to work with any population outside insurance based PT/OT care. Typical but not at all inclusive: Specialize in senior fitness, Kidfit, work with athletes working alongside athletic trainers and PT’s, work in AL or IL senior facilities providing stay in place care to decrease the progression of sarcopenia in the senior population. Work in PT, or chiro clinics providing specialized programming for the complex client, Work in gyms, and personal training studios, fitness centers and yoga or pilates studios to offer 1:1 care or group class offerings that align with your state license.
How long will it take me to earn my specialty certificate?
The certificate program is a learn at your own pace program. Allowing you to learn as you work in your current position. Then when you have completed your certificate course you can join our solo business academy for PTA, OTA assisted stretching and mobility certificate holders.
by stretchmobility | Dec 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Stretch Mobility Coach Founder, Kim Nartker, Stages a Stretching Intervention
When the body pops, creaks, and aches, it’s trying to tell us something. Kim Nartker, Founder and CEO of Stretch Physical Therapy and Total Wellness, interprets the body’s language of pain and gets to the root of what is causing it. Kim’s innovative stretch methods lead to healthy, pain-free living, and prevent injury, injections and even surgery.
“I want to dispel the myths about stretching and help people in pain fix their problems,” she says.
Tight muscles mean trouble—they can cause injury, discomfort and weakness. When it comes to stretching, many of us rely on outdated science. Kim is on a myth-busting mission for mobility.
“It is a myth that getting older causes pain,” she says. “Stretching will help you move more freely, so that you can function at your best as you age.”
“We’ve had complete success putting people on the road to recovery without surgery,” she says.
Kim stages a stretching intervention to guide us through three critical questions about stretching:
Q: Why do I feel tight?
KN: You are not the cause of your tightness. We have hundreds of joints in our body. When a joint gets restricted, it communicates with the muscle to tighten and you feel progressively tighter. When that cycle continues, the body compensates and builds up scar tissue.
When we stretch you, we reprogram everything. Our techniques find and unlock the joints that are sending the wrong messages and refire the deep muscles so they perform the way they should.
The sooner you handle a tight muscle, the more injury and pain you can prevent. We’ve helped people avoid knee, hip and back surgeries.
Q: When should I stretch with exercise?
KN: It’s best to stretch before and after exercise. A warm-up stretch, before exercise, should be dynamic—that means you should be moving while you are performing it. Search Google for dynamic stretches. There are plenty of routines out there. You want to get the joints moving to prepare the muscles to start doing what they are supposed to do so you prevent injury.
After a workout, you should do static stretches, where you hold a stretch for 30, 60 or 90 seconds without movement.
When we do a stretch session with you, we stretch you. We are able to stretch the joints, muscles, tendons, and the myofascial component that’s holding you tight so that it relaxes the muscles. Then, we give you some exercises to strengthen those muscles and keep you flexible longer.
Q: When should I stretch daily?
KN: We recommend daily mobility stretches, moving your joints through a range of motion as you stretch. If you wake up with tightness, you need to be doing mobility stretches before you go to bed and again when you wake up. You shouldn’t spend more than five minutes on it. If you are having to spend more time than that, then there’s a bigger, underlying problem that needs to be addressed.
Learn more online about Kim Nartker and the programs for healing at The Stretch Mobility Coach 4851 Wunnenberg Way, West Chester. https://kimnartker.com/
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by stretchmobility | Feb 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Too often we make small excuses that can lead us down the road to frustration from unmet goals. We think that making a small excuse today for not moving our bodies, not strengthening our bodies or not eating well is okay and we justify by telling ourselves that our bodies need rest. While rest days are a major component in good health, they can sometimes lead to the lack of motivation to move at all. It is easy to put off our workouts, stretching or to ignore pain signals, but are you really helping yourself by making excuses?
Our bodies need mobility, strength, sleep, nutrition and mindfulness to work the way we need them too.
But our lives have become more fast paced. We place many demands on ourselves to be the people our minds say we should be. We cram our schedules with tasks and use business as an excuse to put off taking care of ourselves. These excuses prevent us from being truly authentic to ourselves and how our bodies need us to live.
Take a look at your daily life…
Do you allow time for movement, flexibility, stress relief, good sleep and mindfulness daily?
If not, take baby steps today to implement one of these into your daily life. Do a few stretches in the morning to help you wake up and loosen up any tightness before you start your day. Add in a simple 10 minute workout ( you have 10 minutes to spare)! Or, if you work at a desk, make a point to stand up, stretch, and walk around every 30 minutes to an hour during your work day.
Having a hard time keeping yourself accountable in these areas?
Here are some courses that may help you:
Back Pain Relief Course https://www.stretchptondemand.com/back-pain-relief-course
Knee Pain Relief Course
https://www.stretchptondemand.com/knee-pain-relief-course
On demand Stretch and Mobility Class this Friday 2/12/21 at 11:00 LIVE only $5.00
https://stretchptondemand.punchpass.com/classes/7693360
Upcoming Webinars and Events
https://stretchptondemand.punchpass.com/classes
Give yourself some grace today!
