certification

Jen can now very proudly announce that she is the first practitioner in the U.K. to become Certified in the Integrated Systems Model (ISM). It has taken a year of hard work, over one hundred hours of online video lectures; two case report letters; one full case report and three skill demonstration videos.

If you are a practitioner and are interested in reading about what is required for Certification in more detail, please use this link to Diane Lee's education website: learn.dianelee.ca/ism-certification/

​Here are the videos used: (not the same patient as in the written case study).
Examples of written case reports can be found here: ​learn.dianelee.ca/ism-certification/

videos

This is a 61 year old patient who was complaining of left knee pain. The pain was worse with squatting activities and she did not 'trust' her knee. The videos are in sequence and will show you the process of finding the underlying impairment (the 'driver'). In this case the driver was her left hip (not the site of pain). On questioning, the patient recalled a hard fall onto her coccyx (on ice) many years ago. Interestingly she had never injured her left knee. The second video shows how once the driver is located we assess what vectors are to blame, in this instance the primary vector was an adductor muscle in her inner thigh and the secondary vector was her left coccygeus muscle. Once the underlying cause has been found, treatment can commence, along with homework for the patient to practise between sessions. Finding the driver, locating and treating the vectors and practising the task are key elements of the ISM. As Diane would say, "there are no recipes, it's just good physiotherapy".