Palpation Skills for Physiotherapists - Practical Online Training Course

This online course in palpation - invasive and extrapulmonary skills, is aimed at physiotherapists and rehabilitation clinicians, enhancing their palpation skills for adequate clinical assessments. The course includes modules on understanding surface anatomy, bony landmarks, palpating muscles, differentiating tendons/ligaments, and assessing fascia limitations within the trunk, upper limbs, and lower limbs. Demonstrations of attentive, structured, and grafted palpation skills were conveyed in top-quality videos. Each video provided an anatomical overlay and showed practitioners using precise palpation skills. Lectures by expertly trained professionals engaged attendee's understanding of the principles of palpation and clinical reasoning and synthesis through assessment and clinical scenario planning for treatment. Attendees continued developing their understanding through variety of interactive and static assessments. The online course teaches clinicians to think about and ultimately articulate their palpation findings into their clinical assessments, enhancing their confidence when identifying non-functional body structures to improve diagnostic skills and manual therapy outcomes. Clinicians received a formal certification in palpation skills when they completed the course. As a result of the course, clinicians were able to substantiate their professional credibility, clinical competence, and employability in other areas of physiotherapy including clinics, orthopaedic rehabilitation, manual therapy settings, etc. and advanced clinical practices.