IAMT has developed a unique curriculum of manual therapy courses specifically designed to provide clinicians with a solid foundation in both examination and treatment. Our curriculum is centered around clinical reasoning skills and is strongly evidence-based. Our teaching model ensures the therapist focuses not only on the source of the patient’s symptoms but also the causative factors. A variety of eclectic manual therapy and exercise interventions are taught by expert clinicians throughout our curriculum with a strong emphasis on patient outcomes and function achieved through constant assessment. The certification program consists of 8 Manual Therapy courses and upon completion candidates will be eligible to sit for IAMT’s COMT exam. These courses may also be taken independently of the certification curriculum.
The certification exam process offered by IAMT, which leads to the designation of Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist (COMT), consists of a combination of a practical examination, multiple choice questions and...
A lecture based course with frequent lab sessions, this course covers the application and reasoning processes behind manual therapy interventions and builds a framework for therapists to make clinical decisions...
This course reviews the application and reasoning processes behind the principles delivered throughout the COMT curriculum. This course is recommended, not required, to sit for the COMT exam. The course...
This course is designed to enhance a physical therapists ability to develop and prescribe an individualized exercise program of the spine and extremities for the patient’s specific presentation. The course...
This course covers clinical examination, manual therapy and exercise treatment interventions for the cervicothoracic region. The course considers the current literature and compares and contrasts the varying classification...
This course covers clinical examination, manual therapy and exercise treatment interventions for the lumbo-pelvic region utilizing a clinical reasoning approach. The course considers the current literature and compares and...
This course covers clinical examination, manual therapy and exercise interventions for the entire lower quarter utilizing a clinical reasoning approach and functional movement assessment. The course considers the current literature...
Therapists have the ability to act as primary care musculoskeletal providers. As such, they must be able to screen for problems and needs beyond the scope of physical therapy and...
This course covers clinical examination and treatment of the soft tissue components of the musculoskeletal and peripheral nervous system. This course focuses on soft tissue assessment in regards to its...
This course covers clinical examination, manual therapy and exercise interventions for the entire upper quarter utilizing a clinical reasoning approach. The course considers the current literature relative to management...
