If you don't win the raffle, as an IPPT member you are still a winner.

The IPPT 2021 Conference Special:
Purchase our Core Board System at 50% off
​(Plus Several Free Bonuses)

In Addition to Receiving Our Core Board System, You Will Receive the Following Bonuses ​

​Bonus 1

You will receive my computer generated disc animation.     
$199.00 value. 

​It is as important for our patients to know what not to do as it is for them to know what to do. 

​This animation is a great educational tool which can be used to demonstrate and illustrate the detrimental effects of poor postures and how these poor postures can cause disc injuries.

Watch the short video to the right to see how we use this great educational tool. ​


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Bonus 2
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Pre written editable chart notes.  Use these to streamline your documentation when utilizing these techniques with your patients.
Value: Priceless  ;)



 
Continue scrolling down and see all the amazing aspects of our system and at the bottom of this page there are more bonuses and our special IPPT price offer.
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​One of the best ways to build a successful private practice is to have walking and talking billboards.  A happy patient that receives quality treatment and gets results spreads the word.  
  • This page was created to virtually demonstrate the unique features of our Total Spinal Fitness Core Board System. 

  • ​The information on this page will detail many of the unique aspects of our product. 

  • Section 1 will give you an overview of the clinical neuroscience behind the development of our system and a sneak peak at our core board.   For more detailed information you can view sections ​2-6 at your leisure.
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  • I hope you will take the time to review the features and benefits of our system.  The information and videos alone on this page will give you very useful clinically based knowledge and techniques that you will be able to use immediately with your patients.   I have no doubt our system and protocol will complement your current back program and add value for your patients and to your clinic. 


With our sequential proprioceptive specific Muscle Pattern Re-Organization approach you will be able to give your clients the most advanced and comprehensive spinal treatment and core strengthening in our field today. 

Scroll Through This Page To See Examples Of Our Unique Spinal Rehab Sequence, Our Advanced Sports Specific Training, And A Sneak Peak At A Few Of Our Protocols Utilizing Our Proprietary Core Board Technology.  
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Section 1:  Development of Our System
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Section 2:  Deep Core Strengthening

​Section 3: Strengthening the Outer Core Muscles

Section 4:  Sport Specific/Advanced Exercises

Section 5: Unloading/Decompression

Section 6:  Case Study
                       Scoliosis Protocol                                                                    Deep Core Stabilization/Disc Protocol
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Section 7:  Pricing/Ordering Information. 

Section 1: ​​Our System


​Watch this next video and see what sets us apart.  Learn some of the clinical research and neuroscience that has gone into developing our device and protocol.
Take a look at the components of our proprietary Core Board​.
  Core Board Demonstration.

Section 2:  Restoration of Spinal Mobility and Deep Core Strengthening

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​Our system is proprioceptive specific and focuses on the deep core muscles first.  ​Performing exercises 1-5 prior to progressing our clients to the intermediate and outer core muscles is an important concept to follow and is what sets us apart from most core strengthening programs. 

​These muscles have 4-5 times as many mechanoreceptors than the larger outer core muscles. So not only are these small deep muscles responsible for controlling and stabilizing segmental motor control they have the major responsibility for controlling the larger more powerful outer core musculature.




​Exercise 1:    Magna Maneuver

Brian Magna a Total Spinal Fitness Clinical Affiliate and owner of Magna Physical Therapy in Avon Connecticut added this valuable exercise to our routines.   We now use this regularly to initiate our protocol and this maneuver works great as a cool down following an aggressive routine.  
This maneuver will initiate segmental lumbar extension in the most non invasive manner.  While unloaded we are able to gently re-establish segmental lumbar extension.  Utilizing the proprio-core pads you will be able to provide proprioceptive feedback to the patient ensuring the corrected movement patterns can be repeated in the same manner. 

(See the disc protocol below and see how we specifically incorporate these movement patterns when treating injured discs.) 

Magna Maneuver Video

Exercise 2:     The Hula

This exercise will restore segmental side bending initiating deep core Intertransversarii.  The resistance straps provide the proprioceptive feedback to ensure your clients are performing the movements correctly.    
Hula Video

Exercise 3:  Tail Bone Raise

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​The different size proprio-pads and resistance bands will provide your clients with a fulcrum and the proprioceptive feedback to ensure correct and repeatable movement patterns.  This exercise can be progressed to isolated resisted Rectus Abdominus strengthening while the spine remains in a decompressed position.

​This exercise is extremely important as this movement performed while unloaded not only provides mobilization to the vertebrae it will safely initiate segmental extension. Restoring these natural segmental movements in a safe unloaded position helps to facilitate the disc pump mechanism which is the body's natural mechanism for providing the discs with nutrition through mechanical fluid exchange.  



(See the disc protocol below and see how we specifically incorporate these movement patterns when treating injured discs.) ​
Tail Bone Raise Video

Exercise 4:     
​Functional Pelvic Rotation/ Unilateral Multifidus Training

The Clinical Significance of Restoring Lumbo-Pelvic Rotational Synergy.
1.  Re-establishing and optimizing the mechanics of the gait cycle.

This exercise is a very powerful and important exercise as this movement pattern re-establishes the functional rotational movements associated with the oblique axis's of the sacrum.  Our lumbar spine was designed to move segmentally in synergy with the sacrum and pelvis.  We utilized the most functional movement of the lumbo-pelvic region and re-pattern, or re-establish, the natural biomechanics that occur during the gait cycle. This is the only system that provides resisted unilateral isolated Multifidus strengthening. With the use of the proprio-pads and resistance bands your clients will get the proprioceptive feedback to isolate these muscles.  This exercise is initiated with isolated unilateral Multifidus strengthening and progressed through Muscle Pattern Re-Organization restoring the synergy of the Oblique's and TA with the deep core while performing functional rotation/de-rotation of the pelvis. 

2.  Reducing the loads on the lumbar discs.

Clinical studies reveal that a rhythm with high pelvic rotation and low lumbar flexion involved more global muscles and increases the role of the disc in resisting spinal loads while its counterpart, with low pelvic rotation, recruits more local muscles and engages the ligaments to lower the disc loads.  On the other hand, restoring a normal rhythm that has balanced pelvic and lumbar rotations yields almost equal disc and ligament load-sharing and results in more balanced synergy between global and local muscles. This demonstrates that the spinal response during movements that involve loading the discs is highly dependent on the lumbo-pelvic rhythm.

Tao Liu, Kinda Khalaf, Samer Adeeb, Marwan El-Rich: Effects of lumbo-pelvic rhythm on trunk muscle forces and disc loads during forward flexion: A combined musculoskeletal and finite element simulation study: Journal of Biomechanics 2019 Jan 3;82:116-123


Our system is the only system in our field today that allows for isolated resisted strengthening of the Multifidus in a position of decompression. The literature is filled with research on the importance of this deep core stability.  Here are just a few.

1 . Hides J, Richardson C, Jull G. Multifidus muscle recovery is not automatic after resolution of acute, first-episode low back pain. Spine1996;21:2763–9.
2. Richardson C, Jull G, Hodges P, et al. Therapeutic exercise for spinal segmental stabilization in low back pain. Scientific basis and clinical approach. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1999.
3. Hides J, Stokes M, Saide M, et al. Evidence of lumbar multifidus muscle wasting ipsilateral to symptoms in patients with acute/subacute low back pain. Spine1994;19:165–72.

(See the disc protocol below and see how we specifically incorporate these movement patterns when treating injured discs.) ​

Functional Pelvic Rotation/ Unilateral Multifidus Video

Exercise 5:    Multifidus Bilateral Strengthening

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Initiating segmental lumbar extension; Multifidus​




​The oblique orientation of the Multifidus muscles provide deep core stability as they act as cross struts.  Without this segmental cross strut stabilization we will not have true core stability. 






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​I use the analogy of a bridge fabricated from metal beams.  Without the cross struts the bridge would collapse when any stress placed on it.  When it comes to the importance of the Multifidus in stabilizing the spine this is a perfect example of their structural importance.  
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​Strengthening the Erector Spinae and Rectus Femoris and the other outer core muscles without the structural support of active Multifidus muscles would be like building a bridge without cross struts. Although the TA and Oblique's can also act as cross struts for the trunk they have no direct control over the segmental stability therefore do not help restore optimal spinal biomechanics leading to continued dysfunction. ​
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  • (See the disc protocol below and see how we specifically incorporate these movement patterns when treating injured discs.) ​

 Multifidus StrengtheningVideo

Section 3: Optimizing Synergy Between the Deep Core and Outer Core Muscles
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We do the Sexy Muscles Second!

After re-awakening the deep core musculature we then focus on restoring the synergy between the deep core muscles and the outer core. 



​Exercise 6:     Resisted Bridging While Decompressed

Initiating outer core Gluteals and Paraspinals

The Bridging exercise has always been a powerful, safe, and effective exercise for the outer core.  By utilizing our decompression strap and core resistance bands this exercise becomes even more effective. 
Bridging Video

Exercise 7:    Advanced Bridging

Initiating advanced outer core trunk control

Single Leg Bridging initiates unilateral single leg support in a safe position of decompression and with the use of the resistance bands will  help restore the synergy of the intermediate core musculature.  Progressing this to a version of exercise #6 under sports specific training will  challenge the intermediate core to stabilize the spine in a very functional single leg support position, restoring synergy between the Psoas, QL, and Gluteus Medius.  
Advanced Bridging Video

Exercise 8:    Bridging/Pelvic Rotation Synergy

Initiating synergy between the deep core and outer core musculature 
Bridging /Pelvic Rotation Combo Video

Section 4:   Advanced Exercises


​The following exercises are examples of advanced core strengthening and sports specific training.

It is the ability of the muscle system to rapidly fire an antagonist or synergistic muscle that will protect the underlying joints and soft tissue structures from injury.   When it comes to protecting against injury we must incorporate proprioceptive specific ​rapid transitional movements.  The following exercises are a few of the many advanced exercises focusing on re-establishing and optimizing rapid transitional movements of the deep core and trunk musculature.
1.  Advanced TA and Oblique Training.
2.   Initiating Transitional Reaction Time Training with Lumbo-Pelvic Rotation.
3.  Advancing Transitional Reaction Time Training:
Combining Multifidus for Lumbo-Pelvic De-Rotation with TA and Oblique Training.
4.  Advancing Transitional Reaction Time Training:
Combining Multifidus for Lumbo-Pelvic De-Rotation with Thoracic Rotation and UE Plyometric Training
5.  Progression to Advanced Functional Closed Kinetic Chain Core Strengthening

Section 5: Unloading/Decompression

1.  Unloading decreases pain improving proprioceptive input from the involved musculature leading to optimal strength gains. 


2.  ​Unloading combined with gently segmental movement facilitates the natural spinal disc pump for nutrition and fluid exchange. This video demonstrates our systems unique ability to facilitate this fluid exchange to the discs which and is the only system that follows the body's natural blueprint for disc nutrition. 

​See the case study below and watch a video of an actual patient with disc pathology get great results with our system.   ​

Case Story:
 This patient was suffering from back pain associated with congenital Schmorl's nodes. This is a great example of how our system demonstrated results in facilitating improved disc health after all other conventional physical therapy approaches failed. 


​Scoliosis Protocol/Take the Torsion Out! 

Scoliosis in not just a lateral curve of the spine. There is a three dimensional biomechanical component to scoliosis that must be addressed.  The spine twists and torsions which can be seen in the rib hump.  This torsion creates increased nerve tension further exacerbating the scoliosis and pain.  We have a simple technique to reduce the torsion while exercising our scoliosis patients.  This technique has proven to benefit our patients with scoliosis. 

This video does not show some of the nerve gliding and nerve flossing techniques that we perform when the torsion is eliminated but we wanted to share that performing nerve glides after we de-torsion the spine has also demonstrated good results.


​Deep Core Stabilization/Disc Protocol 

This deep core stabilization/disc protocol gently re establishes segmental movement while protecting the injured disc. Conventional spinal stabilization focuses on the TA and the Oblique's in order to promote the corset affect.  This corset affect will help to stabilize the lumbar spine through a conscious effort to hinge from the hips and maintain a co-contraction between these outer corset muscles and the paraspinals.  But our true stability must take place at the segmental level.  This protocol re-establishes motor control of the Multifidus first in order to truly control and protect the disc injuries. Through a series of gentle movements followed initially by isometric contractions of the Multifidus.   This protocol will re-establish proper motor control of the deep core muscles.  We then progress to dynamic segmental movements to re-establish the synergy of the TA and the Oblique's to work together with these deep core muscles. 

Section 6: Pricing

In Addition to the previous bonuses listed at the top of this page you will receive:

Our online webinars on  Muscle Pattern Re-Organization.
​$375.00 Value

An Evidenced Based Corrective Exercise Strategy for Optimizing Your Clients Core Strength.




 -You will learn a simple Thera-Gun technique to sequentially re-boot            underlying muscle imbalances setting the foundations for optimizing core strength.

 -You will learn the theories behind Muscle Pattern Re Organization a technique designed to re activate the core muscles to fire in proper sequence and proper degree optimizing core spinal motor control.

-You will learn exactly which core muscles to strengthen and the proprioceptive specific sequence to strengthen them. 

-You will learn how the CNS and ANS control underlying muscle dysfunctions and how to influence and facilitate these neurological control mechanisms to restore and optimize spinal motor control.

-Your will also learn regional interdependencies affecting spinal motor control, simple corrective postural strategies, and much more...

       
Section 7: Your IPPT Special Pricing: 

Our Core Board System                                                     Value $ 1,399.00 value                                
Bonus 1:  Computer Generated Disc Animation             Value $    199.00 value                                                  Bonus 2: Chart notes                                                          Value  $    Priceless :)                                            
Bonus 3: Webinars                                                              Value  $    375.00 value       

Total Value:                                                                                     $ 2,000.00

                                 
                                    
If you contact us or order before 02/15/2021 you will receive all of this for  $699.00             
One More Special Offer


​As good as our services are, if nobody knows about them we are doing  our clinic and potential clients a disservice.

As part of  our IPPT special we are offering marketing videos of whiteboard educational animations. These whiteboard animations have demonstrated up to a 200% increase in capturing new clients.  These animations  are proprietary to Total Spinal Fitness  and would cost you well over $5,000.00 to have produced on you own.   

With this special offer, for an additional $199.00 you will be licensed to use these animations to promote your new Total Spinal Fitness protocol on any social media platform.  

​Below are some short clips from our white board animations.  You will receive several versions with several call to action options if you decide to purchase our special.  

    If you would like to take advantage of this offer use the links at the bottom of the page to purchase  your items at our special pricing.

    ​ If you have any questions please contact us below.

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