18th Annual Pro Football Chiropractic Continuing Education Seminar

Dr. Christine Foss has a Masters degree in Sports Medicine from Old Dominion University, a Doctorate in Chiropractic from New York Chiropractic College and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Health Sciences. She is a Certified Athletic Trainer, Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, Diplomate American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board and an Internationally Certified Sports Chiropractor. She was named the 2020 American Chiropractic Association Sports Council Chiropractor of the Year.

Dr. Foss has had many experiences treating and rehabilitating athletes as well as non-athletes. Co-owning and establishing Advanced Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy Center as well as Kid’s Therapy Center has been a passion. Dr. Foss is the American Chiropractic Association Sports Council Chiropractor of the Year 2020. She worked in the Sports Medicine Department at the University of Notre Dame as well as volunteering at the Olympic Training Camps multiple times and locations. She has worked the World Games in Poland and the bobsleigh World Championships both for FICS. She additionally traveled with TEAMUSATF as medical staff. She has additionally worked alongside prominent surgeons in the care and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.

Dr. Foss finds special interest in difficult cases and those patients that have had little success with conventional care as well as lecturing on a variety of aspects of sports injuries. She is currently director and lead instructor of the New York Chiropractic College “Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician” program and Education Chair for Federation Internationale de Chiropractique du Sport.

Understanding the high-level athlete and the mission in performance from clinical perspective enables the healthcare provider to tune into the needs of the patient. Unpeeling the kinetic chain to enhance performance begins with reading the athlete’s musculoskeletal story. This course will dive into the research, assessment skills and recovery strategies in unleashing performance and injury prevention in your professional athletes.

Sponsored by:

P. Michael Leahy, DC, CCSP, ART

Stability and Control – How the Nervous, Fascial, and
Muscular Skeletal System Interact

Dr. P. Michael Leahy is an honor graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, former fighter pilot, and proud veteran. After his military service, Dr. Leahy graduated valedictorian of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic.

Not long after graduating valedictorian of Los Angeles Chiropractic College, Dr. Michael Leahy grew increasingly dissatisfied with the slow and poor efficacy of traditional soft-tissue treatment methods, especially for professional and Olympic athletes that urgently needed to get back to training and competition. He set to work developing the Active Release Techniques (ART) treatment system. Astonished by his impressive results, Dr. Leahy’s friends and colleagues urged him to train other healthcare professionals to utilize the ART treatment system in their practices.

Throughout his career, Dr. Leahy has regularly treated professional, collegiate, and Olympic athletes, including Ironman champions, members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Olympic gold medalists, PGA Tour champions, and even a U.S. President. He has been on staff with the NFL’s Denver Broncos for more than two decades, and he and his ART Team remain a mainstay at the finish line of the Ironman World Championships in Kona.

Dr. Leahy has never stopped developing ART treatment. He discovered and published the Law of Repetitive Motion and the Cumulative Injury Cycle, redefining understanding and treatment of athletic- and work-related injuries. Today, as president of ART, Dr. Leahy’s work is dedicated toward developing curriculum and instruction materials for ART that perfect ART models, systems, and protocols bit-by-bit, based on feedback from ART Certified Providers, professional athletes, and students collected over more than three decades. ART’s aim remains the same. Dr. Leahy and his team are dedicated to continuing to push the limits of efficacy and efficiency in soft-tissue and nerve care.

Dan McClure, DC, CCSP, CCEP

Ankle, Foot and Knee

Dr. Dan McClure combines a life-long love of athletics with his chosen profession for a natural specialization in chiropractic sports medicine. He is a former high school and college athlete who first became interested in chiropractic when it offered him great relief for a low back injury sustained during college football.

In 1989 he was selected for the interdisciplinary sports medicine team at the US Olympic Training Center. His USOC association continued through the 1990 Olympic Sports Festival and the 1991 Pan American Games. Due to his successful treatment of divers’ wrist injuries at those USOC events, he was invited to join the Sports Medicine staff of US Diving in 1991. Since then, he has worked with elite divers at training camps, Indoor and Outdoor National Championships, Olympic Trials, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. McClure is a nationally and internationally renowned expert and lecturer on extremity injuries and manipulation. His extremity experience ranges over 30 years. Dr. McClure’s state of the art techniques are constantly being refined, so you will learn time proven techniques as well as cutting edge techniques in the process of development. This level of commitment and experience, along with his passion for excellence in applying chiropractic extremity techniques is what makes him the best in his field.

Dr. McClure will cover a brief anatomy review, mechanism of injury, and symptom complexes. As well as all manipulations for each area.

Steve King, DC

Motion Palpation: Sports Injuries

Dr. Steve King graduated cum laude from Life Chiropractic College. He treats a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions and sports injuries. As a versatile athlete, Dr. Steve brings a unique perspective to the treatment of sports injuries. He has completed five marathons and participated in several triathlons. He works with many professional athletes, elite runners and amateur sports enthusiasts to treat and prevent injury, as well as enhance performance.

Dr. Steve King has distinguished himself as one of the chiropractic leaders in the Midwest. He has an extensive post-graduate education in chiropractic medicine; and a Masters Degree in Human Nutrition with a focus on functional medicine and its growing value in the prevention and management of disease. His comprehensive approach focuses on the athlete’s performance and health, state of the art chiropractic care, and targeted nutritional and exercise recommendations.

The purpose of this program is to prepare chiropractors to perform appropriate static and dynamic palpation assessments of spinal and extremity joints and surrounding soft tissues as part of a thorough examination from the perspective of sports injuries. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation of the palpatory findings and how to correlate this information with other historical and examination data. Treatment options including diversified adjustive procedures will be discussed and demonstrated.

Kathy Dooley MS, DC

ID’ing Peripheral Nerve Entrapment of the Upper Extremity

Dr. Kathy Dooley is a rehabilitative chiropractor practicing at ID Lab New York, in midtown Manhattan, and via telehealth in Boulder, CO. She is an adjunct anatomy instructor at two New York City medical schools, Einstein College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College. She is an adjunct instructor at New York University College of Dentistry and Sophie Davis School of Biological Sciences, and is a visiting professor for Saint George’s University Medical School in Grenada, West Indies. She is also an Anatomy Expert On-Demand for Abbvie Pharmaceuticals via Medforce.

She teaches continuing education for the following seminar companies: Neurokinetic Therapy LLC, Immaculate Dissection LLC, and Somatic Senses LLC.

Jason Amstutz, DC, RTP, CCSP, CSCS

Fascia 101: Joint Pumping for the Shoulder Complex to Improve Rehab & Performance Outcomes

Dr. Jason Amstutz has been teaching the intricacies of fascia and tensegrity in the clinical setting for over 14 years. His extensive rehabilitative work with professional athletes in the NHL, NFL, PGA, LPGA, MLB, and NBA has stemmed from these revolutionary concepts. His complex understanding of the properties and anatomy of fascia and how it relates specifically to the treatment of fascia will improve your practice and patient outcomes.

Fascia has been on the radar since the 1800s via Andrew Still and Osteopathy. Now Fascia is the latest focus in rehab and the sports therapy world in the US. While the the “trains” and “chains” are important in relational anatomy of the body, they are but 50% of the overall Fascia puzzle in your patients. 99% of therapists and doctors are missing this! Join us for the physiology and stay for the application that is changing the outcomes at the highest level in ALL sports!