Stop second guessing. Stop getting stuck. Get the answers you need.
Stop wondering what else you could or should be doing. It's time to discover how to treat patients you can't figure out.
Next enrollment is March 2023!
Stop second guessing. Stop getting stuck. Get the answers you need.
Stop wondering what else you could or should be doing.
It's time to discover how to treat patients you can't figure out.
Next enrollment starts March 2023!
Discover How To Treat Patients You Can't Figure Out
Decoding The Complex Patient is a one-stop course that gives you all of the tools you need to finally figure out and successfully treat complex patients.
Learn To Leverage The Narrative
You’ll learn how to listen to their story and break it down so you can hone in on the driver quicker saving you time in the clinic.
Master The Therapeutic Alliance
Establishing confidence and trust with your patients makes your assessments and interventions more effective by over 50%! Who doesn't want that?!
Study Real Life Case Examples
We'll review several case studies from some of my toughest patients to help you improve your problem solving and clinical reasoning skills.
Get Your Questions Answered
Review in real time your specific questions and patient cases during a live "Ask me anything" call. This is your chance to stop second guessing yourself and establish a framework to be able to figure out any case that comes through your clinic doors!
Discover How To Treat Patients You Can't Figure Out
Decoding The Complex Patient is a one-stop course that gives you all of the tools you need to finally figure out and successfully treat complex patients. Inside you'll:
Learn To Leverage The Narrative
You’ll learn how to listen to their story and break it down so you can hone in on the driver quicker saving you time in the clinic.
Master The Therapeutic Alliance
Establishing confidence and trust with your patients makes your assessments and interventions more effective by over 50%! Who doesn't want that?!
Study Real Life Case Examples
We'll review several case studies from some of my toughest patients to help you improve your problem solving and clinical reasoning skills.
Get Your Questions Answered
Review in real time your specific questions and patient cases during a live "Ask me anything" call. This is your chance to stop second guessing yourself and establish a framework to be able to figure out any case that comes through your clinic doors!
Do challenging patients leave you with more questions than answers?
- Are you exhausted from trying to figure out what to do when you can't help certain patients?
- Do the answers elude you?
- Does trying to figure them out take up too much of your time and energy?
- Would you like to have more effective assessment and treatment options but don't know where to start?
- Do you struggle to design an exercise progression for someone who has foot pain but their driver is in their hip?
- Do you find it difficult to progress someone whose driver is in their foot but their symptoms are in their pelvic girdle?
- Does your clinical reasoning suffer when your patient has multiple regions of their body involved?
I used to be you!
I have treated countless seemingly difficult patients over the years and helped them find answers to their painful experiences.
But it wasn’t always so straightforward.
There were many times I stood in front of a patient and thought to myself,
“What next?”
Not having the answers drove me to become obsessed with learning how to work with patients who were challenging for me. With the patients who had been seemingly everywhere and told me I was their last resort.
And then the game changed. I started to get results!
The method I use and the way I look at my patients sets me apart from other clinicians. I created this course because I wanted to share my expertise with you and show you my proven method for getting results!
I used to be you!
I have treated countless seemingly difficult patients over the years and helped them find answers to their painful experiences.
But it wasn’t always so straightforward.
There were many times I stood in front of a patient and thought to myself,
“What next?”
Not having the answers drove me to become obsessed with learning how to work with patients who were challenging for me. With the patients who had been seemingly everywhere and told me I was their last resort.
And then the game changed. I started to get results!
The method I use and the way I look at my patients sets me apart from other clinicians. I created this course because I wanted to share my expertise with you and show you my proven method for getting results!
Testimonials
JIM JERSEY
JI M JERSEY
“I found Decoding the Complex Patient Course extremely valuable. I have been able to apply ideas from the course daily in the clinic. I became more confident in looking for the driver rather than going immediately to the area of pain. I appreciate Erica's passion and commitment to her patients, to the field of physical therapy, and her willingness to help me become a better clinician."
C.D
“The DCP course made me "take off my blinders" and not look just at the area that was painful, but what else could be causing or driving the pain. I especially found the assessment movements extremely helpful and now include them in all of my assessments. Also, I have tried some of the treatment techniques and have gotten some great results already!”
S.H
JIM JERSEY
JIM JER SEY
What's Inside?
This course is all about getting results.
Module 1
The Art Of The Narrative
- You will weave together a person’s story and connect the dots around their past movement history to prioritize your assessment to get better results.
- It’s not just about routine questioning, that not only robs your patient of telling their story but you may miss critical pieces of the puzzle.
- Learn what's important and what's ancillary to your patient's story to make your assessment more efficient
Module 2
Mastering The Therapeutic Alliance
- Connecting with your patient in a positive way increases outcomes by over 50%.
- You will establish a better therapeutic alliance so you can make your assessments more effective and keep your patient compliant.
- The one sentence that will increase your patient's confidence as well as create a long lasting relationship with them.
Module 3
Case Study: Foot-Driven Pelvic Girdle Pain In A Runner
- Learn my proven process for figuring out why the foot is the driver of this woman’s pelvic girdle pain.
- You will connect the dots from the foot to the pelvis and put together detailed exercise progressions
- UnderstanAd that pelvic girdle pain can be driven from the foot. This is common-don't miss it!
Module 4
Case Study: Neck Driven Low Back Pain With A Unique Secondary Issue
- We'll discuss connections in the body that can cause the neck to be a driver for lumbar spine dysfunction.
- You will get clear on how to look at COM to find the driver quicker as well as differentiating between a dural vs. a peripheral issue and why that matters.
- Differentiate what the real impairments are in order to drive successful exercise prescription
Module 5
Case Study: Thoracic Driven Foot Pain In A Performing Artist
- Learn why poor thoracic control is the driver this performer’s foot pain and NOT her foot.
- You will assess the body’s response to load in this case and translate that information into an effective treatment session as well as specific exercise geared to the driver, NOT the symptom.
Module 6
Case Study: Pelvic and Foot Driven Hip Pain After Surgery
- Can you imagine someone who just had hip surgery only to be told that the continued source of their lingering hip pain lies elsewhere?
- This had nothing to do with her surgery. You will be able to figure her out.
- You will identify an important movement pattern that was the key to getting her results
Module 7
Case Study: Scapular/Thoracic Driven Cervical Radiculopathy In A Softball Player
- You will discover the process I took to help a college softball player who had left arm pain for a year to playing pain free in her division finals.
- You'll learn to develop an exercise program that is specific to the driver, so the patient doesn't plateau.
- You will understand that picking a screening task that is specific and meaningful for your patient will get you better results and help you find the cause sooner
Module 8
Case Study: Really? My Right Shoulder Pain Is Due To an Old Shoulder Issue On My Left Side?
- That’s what these two patients asked me after I assessed them. You will really learn to think out of the box when it comes to assessment after this case!
- You MUST consider other regions of the body especially when symptoms are happening under heavy load as was the case with these two high level athletes.
- Learn how to assess some complicated movements with some quick short cuts.
Module 9
Case Study: Pelvic Driven Knee Pain-The Importance Of Asking The Right Questions
- Uncover how a young competitive golfer with persistent knee pain that prevented him from playing well goes to winning tournaments with no knee pain.
- You will learn how assessing just one movement was able to problem solve his knee pain without even treating his knee directly.
- Getting clear on the original cause of his knee pain will make you ask this question of every patient you see.
What's Inside?
This course is all about getting results.
Module 1
The Art Of The Narrative
- You will weave together a person’s story and connect the dots around their past movement history to prioritize your assessment to get better results.
- It’s not just about routine questioning, that not only robs your patient of telling their story but you may miss critical pieces of the puzzle.
- Learn what's important and what's ancillary to your patient's story to make your assessment more efficient
Module 2
Mastering The Therapeutic Alliance
- Connecting with your patient in a positive way increases outcomes by over 50%.
- You will establish a better therapeutic alliance so you can make your assessments more effective and keep your patient compliant.
- The one sentence that will increase your patient's confidence as well as create a long lasting relationship with them.
Module 3
Case Study: Foot-Driven Pelvic Girdle Pain In A Runner
- Learn my proven process for figuring out why the foot is the driver of this woman’s pelvic girdle pain.
- You will connect the dots from the foot to the pelvis and put together detailed exercise progressions
- UnderstanAd that pelvic girdle pain can be driven from the foot. This is common-don't miss it!
Module 4
Case Study: Neck Driven Low Back Pain With A Unique Secondary Issue
- We'll discuss connections in the body that can cause the neck to be a driver for lumbar spine dysfunction.
- You will get clear on how to look at COM to find the driver quicker as well as differentiating between a dural vs. a peripheral issue and why that matters.
- Differentiate what the real impairments are in order to drive successful exercise prescription
Module 5
Case Study: Thoracic Driven Foot Pain In A Performing Artist
- Learn why poor thoracic control is the driver this performer’s foot pain and NOT her foot.
- You will assess the body’s response to load in this case and translate that information into an effective treatment session as well as specific exercise geared to the driver, NOT the symptom.
Module 6
Case Study: Pelvic and Foot Driven Hip Pain After Surgery
- Can you imagine someone who just had hip surgery only to be told that the continued source of their lingering hip pain lies elsewhere?
- This had nothing to do with her surgery. You will be able to figure her out.
- You will identify an important movement pattern that was the key to getting her results
Module 7
Case Study: Scapular/Thoracic Driven Cervical Radiculopathy In A Softball Player
- You will discover the process I took to help a college softball player who had left arm pain for a year to playing pain free in her division finals.
- You'll learn to develop an exercise program that is specific to the driver, so the patient doesn't plateau.
- You will understand that picking a screening task that is specific and meaningful for your patient will get you better results and help you find the cause sooner
Module 8
Case Study: Really? My Right Shoulder Pain Is Due To an Old Shoulder Issue On My Left Side?
- That’s what these two patients asked me after I assessed them. You will really learn to think out of the box when it comes to assessment after this case!
- You MUST consider other regions of the body especially when symptoms are happening under heavy load as was the case with these two high level athletes.
- Learn how to assess some complicated movements with some quick short cuts.
Module 9
Case Study: Pelvic Driven Knee Pain-The Importance Of Asking The Right Questions
- Uncover how a young competitive golfer with persistent knee pain that prevented him from playing well goes to winning tournaments with no knee pain.
- You will learn how assessing just one movement was able to problem solve his knee pain without even treating his knee directly.
- Getting clear on the original cause of his knee pain will make you ask this question of every patient you see.
Testimonials
JIM JERSEY
JI M JERSEY
"I have been a Physical Therapist for 30 years. I’ve taken a ton of continuing education over the course of my career. I’ve had a lot of frustration being taught by “gurus” who tell you that all of your patients will get better if you only use the magic tricks that they are selling you. I wish that I had found a mentor like Erica earlier in my career. New grads will find good sound reasoning to ground themselves in and long-term clinicians can use Erica’s clinical pearls to tweak their current treatments for even better outcomes."
J.B
“I appreciated how you are able to look at the whole person when assessing movement patterns. Although my specialty is pelvic health, I cannot treat pelvic pain without helping people modify their movement patterns. Most often the pelvic floor seems to be overworking because something else is under working or the coordination of muscle recruitment is less than ideal, and that is where your class gave me ideas to figure out those situations. I also appreciate the numerous case studies and the help with my own cases!”
C.R
JIM JERSEY
JIM JER SEY
In addition to the 9 modules, you also get access to Bonus content!
This content will elevate your skills to the next level.
Bonus 1
Clinical Pearl Videos
- 36 videos totaling over 3 hours!
- Succinct short videos that will elevate your practice and get you thinking deeper about your tough patients. You will learn a different perspective that can jumpstart your clinical reasoning process to get your patients better quicker and faster. And develop them into loyal and raving fans.
- This includes some common treatment progressions that I use as well as clinical pearls from some of the most common issues seen in my practice.
- I will also give you my "elevator" speech when patients ask you why you're different.
** I also include a video on compassion fatigue which is near and dear to my heart.
Bonus 2
Mini Business Bootcamp
- I am sharing with you a presentation I give on PT and Entrepreneurship- How I Took My MBA From The Trading Floor To The Treatment Room. This highlights how you can use your strengths to leverage your skills as a PT as well as how you can start or grow your business.
- My 10 years on Wall Street and my MBA taught me a thing or two on how to run a business. More importantly, it taught me how to use my strengths. All of this I will pass on to you.
Bonus 3
An "Ask Me Anything!" Call
- You will have unrestricted access to ask me all of your most pressing questions, clinical or business, and I will record an "Ask Me Anything" video for you all.
In addition to the 9 modules, you also get access to Bonus content!
This content will elevate your skills to the next level.
Bonus 1
Clinical Pearl Videos
- 36 videos totaling over 3 hours!
- Succinct short videos that will elevate your practice and get you thinking deeper about your tough patients. You will learn a different perspective that can jumpstart your clinical reasoning process to get your patients better quicker and faster. And develop them into loyal and raving fans.
- This includes some common treatment progressions that I use as well as clinical pearls from some of the most common issues seen in my practice.
- I will also give you my "elevator" speech when patients ask you why you're different.
** I also include a video on compassion fatigue which is near and dear to my heart.
Bonus 2
Mini Business Bootcamp
- I am sharing with you a presentation I give on PT and Entrepreneurship- How I Took My MBA From The Trading Floor To The Treatment Room. This highlights how you can use your strengths to leverage your skills as a PT as well as how you can start or grow your business.
- My 10 years on Wall Street and my MBA taught me a thing or two on how to run a business. More importantly, it taught me how to use my strengths. All of this I will pass on to you.
Bonus 3
An "Ask Me Anything!" Call
- You will have unrestricted access to ask me all of your most pressing questions, clinical or business, and I will record an "Ask Me Anything" video for you all.
Choose Your Tier
There are two different tiers of the program for you to choose to complete. You get to decide how advanced you want to go.
Skills Advance
A $1697 value
You get it for $997!
This tier gives you lifetime access to:
- The 9 core modules as outlined above
- All 3 bonus modules + Live "Q & A" Call
- Cheat sheets for each case study to help you master assessing and treating your toughest patients.
Clinical Advantage
A $2997 value
You get it for $1497!
This tier gives you access to everything in the Skills Advance, plus:
- Three 1:1 mentoring calls to get individualized coaching and mentoring to answer any of your questions.
- 8 weeks of private email and/or Voxer access to Erica to supplement your 1:1 calls
This specialized mentoring tier is limited to just 5 spots, so if you're interested, don't delay! Enroll now!
Next enrollment begins March 2023!
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. I am too busy right now or am away on vacation. What if I don’t have time?
A: Although I'll be closing enrollment on October 28, you can start the course whenever you want. The modules will be dripped out starting Monday, October 31.
Q. When are the calls?
A: I recognize that not all of us can make calls live, so they will be pre-recorded. Once I compile your questions, I will create a video answering them!
Q. What do the calls consist of?
A: Whatever you want! The calls are for YOU. The questions can be general or as specific as you want. Clinical or business.
Q. I am a new clinician, is this right for me?
A: For those of you have been practicing awhile this course may be just the thing to get you thinking a little differently than you are used to. And for those who are newer to our profession, this can serve as a foundation for your clinical practice or even launching your own practice!
Q. Are you offering a payment plan?
A: YES! You will find the monthly payment options by clicking the enrollment button on this page.
Q. What can I expect from this course?
A: Solutions, clarity and confidence in your ability to really make a breakthrough with some of your tougher patients. You can do this and do it well. You will have new strategies laid out for you as well as practical concepts explained and shown on video.
Q. How long are the 1:1 mentoring calls offered under the Clinical Advantage tier?
A: The 1-1 mentor calls are 60 minutes.
Q. How long is the "Ask Me Anything" call as part of the bonus modules?
A: The "Ask Me Anything" call is 75 minutes.
THE ANSWERS ARE WAITING.
There’s no better time to get the answers you need to crack those challenging patients. Decoding The Complex Patient will give you the tools to find the driver quickly, create an individualized and effective treatment program that gets results, and increase your confidence in the clinic. Get the answers now.
