Demystifying The Pelvis: Innovative Treatment Methods for Every Type of Lumbopelvic-Hip Dysfunction and Common Whole-Body Patterns
Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26, 2026

Description

This comprehensive, hands-on course provides evidence-informed, innovative assessment and treatment strategies for all types of lumbopelvic dysfunction. Led by renowned clinician and educator Jerry Hesch, MHS, PT, DPT participants will develop practical skills applicable to the pelvis, lumbar spine, hips, and related regions.

Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Have a detailed understanding of relevant biomechanics and arthrokinematics and understand the research that underlies this paradigm.
• Appreciate the utility of evidence-informed practice.
• To review the course material several times (the micro mobility impairments and treatment), via the pre-course, workshop, and post-course presentations, to enhance retention.
• Understand the difference between treatable primary patterns and secondary reflex compensations. The compensation should be resolved without the need for direct intervention once the cause is addressed.
• Become proficient with skilled palpation and load – spring – recoil spring tests throughout the body.
• Competently treat reflex- and positionally driven hypo- and hypermobility.
• Comfortably apply the principles of low load, long duration, viscoelastic creep, and neuro articular/neuro myofascial micromotion corrections.
• Learn new manual care techniques that are much more user-friendly for the therapist's body and lend themselves readily to patient self-treatment.
• Understand how to correct patterns with an alternative to so-called "adjustments" AKA HVLA Thrust/Manipulation to joints. The correction will resolve restricted micromotion, normalize soft-tissue tone, and normalize neurology within 1 to 3 visits, allowing patients to segue into exercise rehab without the need for continued hands-on care.
• Be able to render effective interventions that can be applied to more than one client at a time, impacting mechanoreceptors, restoring micromotion, and relaxing soft tissues, thereby enhancing care and revenue.
• Be able to resolve both sides of the coin - reflex agonist muscle hypertonicity and inhibition of the antagonist - in 1 to 3 visits for lasting benefit.
• Become competent in teaching specific self-treatment of the identified impairments and understand the appropriate home care schedule thereof.
• Competently teach patients exercises that complement the treatment of the patterns being addressed.

Agenda

• Both days = 7:30am-5pm
• Pre-Course Video #1 - 1.5 Hours
• Pre-Course Video #2 - 1.5 Hours
• Post-Course Review Webinars - 1.5 hours

Suggested Audience

PT/PTA

Difficulty Level

Advanced – Includes in-depth theory, concepts, and applications of information and/or techniques that are presented beyond the Essential Level.

Speaker

For over 43 years, Dr. Jerry Hesch, DPT, MHS, PT of the Hesch Institute has treated individuals suffering from acute & chronic pain from hypomobility and hypermobility/instability from sacroiliac joint dysfunction, and dysfunction in joints throughout the body. Over the course of his career, Dr. Jerry Hesch, DPT, MHS, PT has developed a whole-body approach to evaluation and treatment of connective tissues and joint dysfunction known as the Hesch Method. The goal of the Hesch Method is to provide an alternative to ineffective long-term treatment commonly referred to as the "treatment roller coaster."

Questions
Bryan Caplan
bryan.s.caplan@medstar.net
410 802 1285

Carrie Krug
carrie.krug@medstar.net
443-562-7121