McKenzie Institute CZ&SK

22/08/2025

💡 “Understanding comes first.” – Eva Nováková

This simple phrase carries depth.
In the McKenzie Method®, understanding matters on several levels:

🔹 Assessment – A strong, valid, and reliable process that helps clinicians truly understand the problem.
🔹 Clinician insight – Making sense of what is driving symptoms and function.
🔹 Patient education – When patients understand their condition, they gain self-efficacy, confidence, and the tools for better outcomes.

Understanding comes first — because without it, progress is guesswork. With it, recovery becomes achievable.

15/08/2025

🩻 “The tissue is not the issue!” – Grant Watson

It’s a reminder many patients (and clinicians) need to hear:
Your pain and disability are not always explained by what’s seen on imaging.

📌 Findings on scans can be misleading.
📌 Many other drivers of pain and disability can be present beyond the “tissue.”

The McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy® helps us focus on what changes symptoms in real time and assess all these drivers — not just what’s visible on an imaging report.

✅ Less fear
✅ More function
✅ Better long-term outcomes

05/08/2025

03/08/2025

👉 Zkracuje dobu léčby
👉 Přináší nové možnosti diagnózy pacienta
👉 Zjednodušuje proces hledání zdroje bolesti
..to vše a ještě více nám McKenzie metoda nabízí.

Pokud by vás zajímalo více a chtěli byste si tyto techniky osvojit, dejte nám určitě vědět! 🥰

03/08/2025

Pomáhejte svým pacientům lépe! Budeme se na vás těšit v září na kurzu D. Přihlásit se můžete zde: https://cz.mckenzieinstitute.org/vzdelavani/kurzy-info/d25zari/enrol

25/07/2025

🔍 Clinical Insight from Dr. Helen Claire

💬 “You don’t need to be strong. You just need to apply force under the correct circumstances.”

This quote cuts to the heart of a key principle within the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy® (MDT) — it’s not about strength or force for its own sake, but about applying the right intervention at the right time based on patient response.

🧠 MDT provides a structured, evidence-informed process for assessing and managing musculoskeletal conditions. One of its most valuable tools?
👉 Force progression — not applied randomly or out of habit, but only when clinically indicated.

💡 When is force progression appropriate?
First, ask: When is manual therapy even necessary?
MDT equips clinicians to answer that with confidence — by anchoring treatment in a reliable assessment framework.

📈 Want to sharpen your clinical reasoning and elevate your outcomes?
It starts with mastering the assessment.

24/07/2025

Directional Preference is a highly studied phenomenon in Musculoskeletal research, yet inconsistencies in its identification and application remain. Congratulations to this team of lead authors Josh Kidd, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS, Dip. MDT, CSCS, FAAOMPT; Joe Lorenzetti, PT, DPT, OCS, Dip. MDT, FAAOMPT; and Ken Kirby, PT, DPT, OCS, Cert. MDT, FAAOMPT for shedding light on this important issue in this new American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal article ➡️ https://pulse.ly/on5uwqcbne

23/07/2025

23/07/2025

19/07/2025

Euromeeting mezinárodního McKenzie Institutu letos proběhl v prosluněném španělském Alicante a my jsme měli tu čest zúčastnit se. ☀️ Kromě networkingu se zahraničními kolegy (někteří z nich nám dokonce slíbili, že k nám přijedou přednášet! 🤭) jsme si také poslechli spoustu zajímavých přednášek a informací ze zahraničních odvětví.

Už se nemůžeme dočkat Euromeetingu 2026!