The Courses I’ve Taken and Taught on Biomechanics and Running

I recently returned for a Continuing Education Course on biomechanics of gait, running and rehabilitation titled: Running Rehabilitation and after this weekend my total hours of continuing education on gait stands at 120!!

1996 Locomotor Biomechanics (8 hrs)
1997 Orthotic Reaction (22 hrs)
1998 Grinders & Glue (16 hrs)
1998 Landing on Your Feet (8 hrs)
1998 Current Concepts in Biomechanics (22 hrs)
2000 When the Foot Hits the Ground (Lv2) (15 hrs)
2001 The Running Course (15 hrs)
2015 Running Rehabilitation (14 hrs)

I certainly learned a couple things from my most recent course. First, the science of running has certainly evolved in the last 14 years but the course also validated that all the work I invested to become a Subject Matter Expert in Biomechanics has certainly paid off. To summarize that work I thought I’d list my teaching experience…

1999-2000 I re-wrote 32 hours of gait and biomechanics for the Army-Baylor Physical Therapy Program.
1999 University of Texas Health Science Center, Normal Gait (4 hours)
1999 Balboa Naval Medical Center (Tricare Region IX), Lower Extremity Treatment Options (15 hours)
2000 Etiology of Foot Pain, Health Care Providers in Bosnia (8 hours)
2000 Army Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency, Normal Gait and Malalignments (15 hours).
2002 Army Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency, Normal Gait and Malalignments (15 hours).
2002 Colorado Springs Air force and Army Cont. Ed. Normal Gait, Malalignments and Orthotic Prescription (15 hours)
2003 Hawaii APTA, Normal Gait, Malalignments and Orthotic Fabrication (15 hrs)
2003 Army Sports Medicine Physical Therapy Residency, Normal Gait, Malalignments and Orthotic Prescriptions (15 hours).
2005 Hawaii APTA, Normal Gait, Malalignments and Orthotic Fabrication (15 hrs)
2007 Operation Iraqi Freedom Deployment Cont Ed. Foot Pain Management in a Deployed Setting. (8 hours).
2009 Kentucky APTA, Normal Gait, Malalignments and Orthotic Fabrication (15 hours).
2010 Texas APTA, Normal Gait, Malalignments and Orthotic Fabrication (15 hours).
2011 Washington APTA, Normal Gait, Malalignments and Orthotic Fabrication (15 hours).

That is a total of just over 200 hours of teaching to hundreds Physical Therapy students, graduates and and post graduate specialists. I don’t proclaim this accomplishment to brag about what I’ve done, but to give God glory for the opportunities He’s afforded me. I’m also realizing I haven’t taught a course in 4 years…I need to get off my butt and put on another conference!! 🙂

6 Week Follow Up After Cranial Treatment for Non-Sleeping Toddler

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Cranial Therapy Success!

Jill and Mike had their daughter Brooklyn treated 6 weeks ago because she was sleeping so poorly and they were all sleep deprived as a family. You can read their first post HERE

So it has been almost 6 weeks since we had the cranial sacral therapy done by Tony on our daughter Brooklyn (she will be 3 in October), and I have to say life is amazing! I will admit that for the first week I thought every night was a fluke. I kept expecting that this treatment would not last and we would be back to the screaming, thrashing wake ups. That was the life that we had become accustomed to. But here we are 6 weeks later, with a sleeping toddler. We have the occasional night where she wakes up because of a storm or a loud noise, but it no longer is the end of our night. It only takes about 5 minutes to get her back to sleep and she is not inconsolable. She is also napping at least an hour a day, but more like 2-3 on a regular basis.
Besides the sleep I have to say that we have our daughter back. Since the sleep deprivation had become such the norm, we did not realize the changes that had occurred in Brooklyn. Looking back now it is easy to see. She had terrible tantrums that lasted up to an hour, she became a poor eater and she her personality had disappeared.
Once her sleep improved the rest of the problems seemed to vanish. Her tantrums still occur, she is almost 3, but they only last a few minutes and we are able to calmly discuss the issue afterwards. She began eating much better, and has put on healthy weight and above all her personality returned. The first day we heard her laugh again, we realized that it had been at least 6 months since we heard that infectious laughter. She is back to her silly, dancing, singing, laughing self. Brooklyn has also grown leaps and bounds with her confidence. She will now go and explore on playgrounds without holding our hands and she is not afraid to introduce herself to other kids and initiate play.

6 weeks ago if you had told me that cranial therapy could improve all of these aspects of Brooklyn’s life I would have doubted that was possible. But now I know and as a family we feel so blessed to have had this session with Tony!

Mike, Jill and their (sleeping at night!) daughter Brooklyn

Jill is the FIT4MOM Front Range Membership and Special Programs Coordinator as well as the Littleton Stroller Strides and Body Back instructor and running coach. They are expecting baby #2 in September!

Hands and Manual Therapy

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When was the last time a health care provider put his or her hands on you? Even my profession of physical therapy has largely gone away from 1:1 care and what little time you get with your therapist is increasingly spent hooked up to a machine or doing exercises. There is a place for machines and for exercises but the most dramatic healings in my 20+ year career have always occurred from direct hands-on techniques. Why, if manual therapy is so effective, is my profession moving away from it? It’s largely driven by the staggering decline in insurance reimbursement. In order for clinics to stay open they have to see so many more patients that there just isn’t enough time to provide much or any hands-on care.

Fortunately, working out of my home, I’m able to charge much less and provide you an hour of experienced hands-on treatment for only $75.00, not much more than you would pay for an hour of massage!

Are you tired of hurting? Have you given up hope? Come see what my manual therapy techniques can do for you!

LTC Tony Bare (ret) DPT, ATC, OCS
Colorado Springs, CO

Cranial Therapy

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What if your head wasn’t on right? What if you weren’t right in the head? What if your head wasn’t on straight? Why do we have so many common phrases that describe cranial dysfunction? Because it REALLY does happen!!! I’ll admit that when I was in school the notion that something might not be right with the bones of the skull was openly scoffed at by my instructors. Fortunately I’ve had my eyes opened by clinical practice and my hands have become calibrated to assess the subtle changes in cranial bone alignment and movement…and then fix it!

How does it work? Well, it’s pretty simple if you picture your brain as the most important organ in your body suspended in fluid and filaments that support and lift the brain from every imaginable angle from the skull to the brain. Now imagine if one of those skull bones is twisted or flexed… imagine if it’s not able to adjust to the blood pulsing inside the brain because it’s “stuck”. What symptoms might it cause? Anxiety, sleepiness, sleeplessness, difficulty concentrating, difficulty remembering, headaches, dizziness, jaw pain (TMJ/TMD) are the more obvious ones. It could affect anything that your brain manages: your hormones, your blood pressure, your coordination.

Please read my testimonials and if you have a toddler with sleep issues please read THIS STORY. I’ve treated TBI, Concussions, CHI, Headaches, TMD, Sleeplessness, Dizziness, memory issues and I’ve even treated Restless Leg Syndrome! Cranial Therapy is so powerful for some particular pathologies that you will notice a great difference after only one or 2 treatments. Give it a shot, you may be able to quit buying the industrial sized bottle of pain killer or get off all your sleeping medications!!

LTC Tony Bare (ret), DPT, ATC, OCS
Physical Therapist/Owner
Colorado Springs, CO

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