Joe Kelly

09/03/2024

Discover powerful strategies for relieving shoulder and neck pain and enhancing your clients' functional range in our latest video.

Watch as Donna Bajelis demonstrates game-changing Structural Medicine techniques that have revolutionized countless practitioners' practices. Gain insights as she realigns and restores function for a weightlifter grappling with shoulder pain during presses. Donna provides a brief demonstration of baseline myofascial length tests for the Pectoralis Major and then imparts a range of techniques to elevate client outcomes during your treatments.

These proven methods effectively reinstate length and mobility to key muscle groups, unlocking your clients' potential for pain-free movement.

If you want to join us for our upcoming fall courses please check out the ISM website.

In this video, Donna demonstrates a series of highly effective Structural Medicine techniques to restore alignment and improve function for her client, an Ol...

06/06/2023

The Structural Medicine Approach to Client Treatment- A Complimentary Learning Event. We’ve all had clients who present with unique and formidable histories and complex pain. As Manual Therapists, we can get lost and overwhelmed by the details. So how do we synthesize a client’s history, our assessment, and the client’s goals to create a customized treatment plan?

Join Donna Bajelis, PT, SMS and Joe Kelly, ACSMS, BCSI, GCFP, LMT, for a complimentary learning event. Discover how Structural Medicine applies a multidisciplinary approach encompassing Physical Therapy and Structural Integration techniques to develop customized treatment plans to address the complexity of factors relating to client pain and dysfunction.

Donna Bajelis is the founder of the Institute of Structural Medicine and the developer of Myofascial Length Testing. With over 45 years in Physical Therapy and Structural Integration, Donna will show us how to go beyond the textbook approach to treating injuries and feel more confident assimilating a client’s history, testing, and structural patterns into a customized treatment plan.

Student’s Learning Objectives

Learn how to take and interpret a detailed client history.
Visual assessment analyzing a client’s structure in gravity, both postural and structural
Myofascial Length Testing (MFLT) appropriate to the client’s pain complaints and organization of their postural patterns
Manual therapy technique and treatment strategies specifically related to myofascial meridians and tensegrity.
Location- Online
Date- Monday, June 12, 2023
Time- 7:00 – 8:30 pm PST
Register at www.structuralmedicine.com

05/22/2023

Please join Donna Bajelis and me for this free learning event!

We’ve all had clients who present with unique and formidable histories and complex pain. As Manual Therapists, we can get lost and overwhelmed by the details. So how do we synthesize a client’s history, our assessment, and the client’s goals to create a customized treatment plan?

Join Donna Bajelis, PT, SMS and Joe Kelly, ACSMS, BCSI, GCFP, LMT, for a complimentary learning event. Discover how Structural Medicine applies a multidisciplinary approach encompassing Physical Therapy and Structural Integration techniques to develop customized and treatment plans to address the complexity of factors relating to client pain and dysfunction.

04/22/2023

How rich is your movement? When was the last time you rolled on the ground? Inverted yourself? Jumped, kicked, or swung? As you acquire more movement complexity you will become more armored to injury and more capable of dealing with all of life’s situations. Many adults as they get older injure them themselves falling. Learning to roll from the ground to your feet and reversing the movement back to the ground is a worthy movement practice!

02/24/2023

Another filming day with the Institute of Structural Medicine and Donna Bajelis for our upcoming continuing education series for manual therapist.

11/30/2022

Unlocking the Pain in Your Neck

A 4-Part Movement Series

Your neck doesn’t have an easy job. It supports the weight of a bowling ball balanced on top of a very long lever called the spine. Many factors can impact the healthy function of your neck, such as poor posture, eyesight, whiplash, overuse, lack of skeletal support, challenging children 😊 (stress), etc. Sometimes the cure is as easy as new prescription eyewear, but often it’s an accumulation of habits we’ve come to acquire.

This four-part series will explore finding greater comfort, ease, support, and connection. You’ll discover how the neck is connected to the arms, shoulders, thoracic spine, and pelvis. All these parts must work collectively to avoid developing problem areas where sheering or compressive forces begin to poke at your neck!

You will learn concrete movement principles to address your neck discomfort. These will include concepts such as:

The carriage of the head serves to tonify the body

Support- your muscular tension is dependent on the specificity of support from the surface.

Skeleton affords the ideal path for action

Evenly distributed muscular tone

Through the four lessons, you will understand how to produce efficient movement free of parasitic muscular contraction. You will discover more support, stability, and ease in your neck movements and the rest of your body. The lessons will demonstrate that there is no limit to learning or refinement. They are simply a launching board for self-directed learning, as these principles can be applied to your daily activities and sports.

Live Online Classes

Wednesday Evenings from 7:15-8:15pm

Nov 30th-Dec 21st, 2022

Lessons will be recorded so that you can watch them anytime

Q&A after the lesson

Series Cost $60

Registration here:

https://www.joekellyaim.com/movement-classes

09/09/2022

09/07/2022

Finding Your Stride

A 4-Hour Workshop

Have you ever been in awe of how fluid and effortless a person walks or moves? Most of us train for fitness, yet we don't teach our bodies to move better. When we lack the proper recruitment, initiation, foundation, and pathway, at a minimum, it creates inefficient movement or can lead to wear and tear and acute injuries.

This workshop will uncover the secrets to healthy, effortless walking. Whether you are a seasoned hiker or want to find better comfort in your stride, you will gain a deep understanding of the movement principles at play to produce efficient, smooth strides.

You’ll become acquainted with your historical walking habits and how they may lead to inefficiencies, tension, and discomfort. As the lessons progress, you’ll invoke more integrity, skeletal support, and coordination to move effortlessly in your stride.

We will cover

How to avoid collapsing and sheering forces that cause pain

How to organize your skeleton for ideal action

What is good posture?

Heel striking, pronation, supination

Is there a “correct” way to walk?

Shoes and clothing

Movement on uneven terrain

Moving up and down stairs/terrain

I know you’ll find something new to appreciate about your stride, and I bet your feet, ankles, knees, hips, and back will thank you afterward for prioritizing your health!

Workshop Details:

Saturday, September 10th

9am-1pm

Live Online Event via Zoom

Three Awareness Through Movement Lessons

Each class will emphasize one or more movement principles to improve efficiency, decrease tension, expand awareness, enhance sensory discrimination, and refine the neural mapping of movement to the brain.

Q&A

The Cost is $45.00

https://joe-kelly.mykajabi.com/fiding-your-stride

07/20/2022

Do you have a movement practice? How much variation is in your routine? Variation of movement is one of the key principles of training your body's ability to balance, orient, and move efficiently. Shoot me a DM to learn about private and group options.

04/22/2021

I'll be hosting 3 free live masterclasses to help you to move from feeling stiff to supple in your spine, neck, and back.

The first class is Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 6pm

Register Here: https://www.joekellyaim.com/movement-classes

04/20/2021

This movement lesson is designed to free up unwanted muscle tension in the neck, shoulders, and upper spine. I'll guide you through various positions that create unique movement patterns to unwind and relax the muscles of the upper body.

Check it out, and let me know how it goes!

This movement lesson is designed to free up unwanted muscle tension in the neck, shoulders, and upper spine. I'll guide you through a variety of positions th...

03/31/2021

Can tight hip flexors create low back tension and pain?

You betcha! Check out this video to learn how this happens and for easy active stretches and self-myofascial release you can do at home to relieve tight hips!

If you have low back pain and tight hip flexors (quad, iliopsoas, sartorius, tensor fascia lata) this video will walk you through several active stretches an...