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ConnectTherapy™ Treatment Skills & Exercise Prescription for Thoracic Ring Drivers, Vancouver, 2025

Advance your Skills for more Effective Treatment of Thoracic Rings - InPerson Course

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Improve your Thoracic Ring Skills for more effective treatment & Exercise Progression in ConnectTherapy™

Are you a physiotherapist trained in ConnectTherapy & the Thoracic Ring Approach and want to know more about how to progress exercises for your patients with Thoracic Ring Drivers? Would you like to see how exercise progressions for Thoracic Ring Drivers work in the Pilates setting? This course is designed for you!

This Treatment Skills & Exercise Prescription course covers key exercise and training progressions for Thoracic Ring Drivers and provides the opportunity to take your Thoracic Ring hands-on skills for both assessment and treatment to the next level! You’ll also be introduced to how to apply the Thoracic Ring Approach & ConnectTherapy in the Pilates context – ConnectPilates™ for the Thoracic Rings. 

ConnectPilates not only offers an excellent exercise and movement experience, it also offers a way to assess and treat the Driver Profile for patients experiencing discomfort and pain, or for those who wish to enhance their performance.

The Pilates environment provides another avenue for the ConnectTherapy trained Physiotherapist to downtrain & release old, non-optimal strategies, and train multiple new strategies for control and capacity of the Driver Profile across a variety of movement contexts. In Clinical ConnectPilates, programming is based on individual assessment and the client’s Driver Profile and progressed according to the three (3) Phases of training from the ConnectTherapy exercise prescription framework and client goals.

In addition to exploring the benefits of therapeutic exercise in the Pilates environment, the ConnectTherapy Physiotherapist can maximize treatment efficiency & effectiveness by using hands-on skills during movement training using Pilates repertoire that is chosen based on ConnectTherapy principles. 

Course Objectives & Content
  •  review & practice the hands-on assessment skills to identify a Thoracic Ring Driver in your patient’s Driver Profile – we will review the key ConnectTherapy & Thoracic Ring Approach skills and clinical reasoning process related to
    • assessing Net Centre of Mass over Base of Support (COM/BOS) during functional tasks and as an outcome measure for your treatment and training sessions
    • Thoracic Ring corrections & Drivers Diagnostics Chart™ (DDC) reasoning to identify Thoracic Ring Controllers, Thoracic Ring Drivers and practicing Co-Ring corrections to confirm Thoracic Ring Co-Drivers – these skills are used in “Stack & Train” exercise progressions
    • review the signs that indicate you may have a CoDriver between the Thorax and a lower extremity region so that you know when you have more than just a Primary Thoracic Ring Driver influencing movement
  • review Thoracic Ring Vector Analysis skills & understand how the location of vectors influences your choice of training positions and Pilates equipment
  • review the Phases of Exercise Prescription for Thoracic Ring Drivers in the ConnectTherapy treatment framework & how to progress exercises for patients with a Primary Thoracic Ring Driver
  • learn how to analyze common patterns of Thoracic Ring dysfunction and muscle imbalance in the Pilates movement context and how to design appropriate ConnectPilates programming to train and treat a patient with a Thoracic Ring Driver
  • practice the powerful Thoracic Ring treatment skills such as Dynamic Thoracic Ring Stack & Breathe, Dynamic Thoracic Ring Stack & Release, Thoracic Ring Stack & Train in the Pilates context 
  • learn how to incorporate ConnectTherapy patient self-management tools such as Cue Checks, Self Checks, Resets and Presets into a ConnectPilates session

Learn how to unlock better movement strategies & core function, sympathetic/parasympathetic balance, and better sleep for your patients. 

  • Please note the Pre-Requisite for this course is either a) the ConnectTherapy™ & the Thorax course (Virtual & InPerson components) – OR – completion of the ConnectTherapy™ Series 
  • The ISM Series or ISM courses do not meet the pre-requisites for this course – LJ has created multiple advances in the Thoracic Ring Approach™ techniques, treatment framework and exercise prescription in the past decade in ConnectTherapy and the current ISM teachings do not include these advances. 
  • Self-paced virtual prerequisite recordings will be available ahead of the in-person session.
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  • Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Date(s): June 20-22, 2025
  • Duration: 3 Days
  • Cost: $1450+ 5% gst

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  • Part 4 was the glue that bound all I’d learned in the Series together. It was a chance to revisit important concepts, enhance skills and consolidate my learnings. Taking Part 4 gave me me the confidence to fully implement the ConnectTherapy™ model in the clinic. What a difference that has made in the results for my patients! It was so important in my development as a clinician I took it twice! 

    Lisa Anthony, Erina, NSW, Australia

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  • Best course I’ve taken that improves clinical reasoning process & helps me to decide what’s important & what to focus on treatment.

    Meaghan Shewchuk – Killarney, MB, Canada

  • There have been improved clinical outcomes in the post-surgical management for lung transplantation patients since I completed LJ’s Thoracic Ring Approach course. I have discovered a new approach to the assessment and treatment of the thorax. Thanks LJ! Looking forward to the next course

    Louise Fuller – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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  • ​Brilliant demonstration of peripheral influences and thank you for mentioning the cranial component too! Thank you LJ for always stimulating, engaging & though provoking instruction. And for being one of my professional heros!​

    Katharine Hasz – Tofino, BC, Canada

  • I cannot say enough about how joining the series with LJ has completely revolutionized my skills as a clinician... I found the Series content was rich with cutting edge science, research and innovative perspectives ... I am so excited to be on this journey and as I continue to learn and grow, the possibilities seem endless!

    Jim Shepherd – Seattle, WA, USA

  • I have had excellent results utilizing the "ring approach" for the management of complex thorax presentations following cardio thoracic surgery, sports injury and atypical chest pain of musculoskeletal origin. This application of this system with its contemporary skills has continually resulted in patient satisfaction, excellent clinical outcomes and facilitated early and optimal recovery (i.e. return to sport, work and community role).

    Doa El-Ansary – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • I consider myself privileged to have been a participant in the three part course series offered in Saskatoon. This course has by far exceeded my expectations. It has changed my clinical practice and yielded breakthroughs in treatment success more than the courses from my previous 11 years of practice combined. I have been left with a renewed excitement about my work and profession. Thanks LJ!

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    Denis Bolduc – Sainte-Thérèse, QC, Canada

  • The reminder to look for the driver, not the pain generator was much needed, and your strategies for doing so are very logical and well thought out. I also love the language you use. The way you've explained things to us as a class have helped me to develop my patient communication skills and this has improved patient's understanding and then also compliance.

    Danielle Wilds – Morisette, NSW, Australia

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  • Amazing course and massive change in my way of working.

    Rob White – Wynyard, County Durham, UK

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    Simon Greene –  Stillorgan, Dublin, Ireland

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    Sarah Connors – Dorridge, West Midlands, UK

  • LJ is a gifted therapist, inspirational leader and a talented educator. The Thoracic Ring Approach and the Integrated Systems Model have been an amazing learning experience and I would highly recommend it to any therapist wanting to challenge themselves...

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  • What I had not anticipated was the way that LJ's course would profoundly transform how I managed my patients, how I experienced my own body and how, most surprisingly, I lived my life... I highly recommend the journey you will take with LJ - be prepared to be challenged and inspired!

    Kate McLeod – Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • I tried NOT to do the part 4, but I just couldn’t stay away!

    Emily Egilitis – Strathalbyn, SA, Australia

  • It was a great course and I've already had great results with the Thoracic Ring Approach - fixing a lot of the stubborn ankle, knees, necks and hands that just didn't seem to want to get better!

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  • Thanks so much for another awesome course. I have been describing you to my friends as the Yoda of physio :)

    Ben Mastaglia – Palmyra, SA, Australia

  • Thanks, LJ, for creating and developing the Thoracic Ring Model.  The videos are brilliant and have enabled me to improve client's outcomes straight away.  Once again you are a true legend and you inspire our profession. 

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  • Very infrequently throughout a career can an individual take a series that changes so profoundly their conceptual framework of assessment and treatment. The integrated series taught by LJ Lee is that rare blend of art and science that looks at the total person. It has not only changed my clinical practice but my teaching as well.

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    Jeff Brousseau

  • I loved the idea of the puzzle and the logical system of clinical reasoning, especially tying all the different aspects of the person's problems together. I especially loved the neurophysiological part of your approach - I've been motivated that I can really change things on that level with my patients and also in myself.

    Sue Clapham

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