Do you ever find yourself wondering whether your patient’s neck pain is truly coming from the neck — or whether it’s a victim of something else entirely? Are you puzzled by shoulder pain that seems to “switch” sides, or patients whose upper quadrant symptoms don’t respond the way you’d expect? Looking for a clinical reasoning framework that goes beyond regional assessment and connects the dots across the whole body?

This is the online course experience you have been waiting for! Physiotherapist Dr. LJ Lee is known internationally for her expertise in the ConnectTherapy™ framework and the Thoracic Ring Approach™, and this online course gives you the most current and evidence-based approach to assessing and treating the neck, shoulder and Co-Ring Shoulder Drivers — and understanding how they relate to the Thoracic Rings and the rest of the body.

With 10 hours of self-paced content, this virtual course builds directly on the foundational skills from ConnectTherapy™ & the Thorax and takes your clinical reasoning to the next level. LJ shares her clinical expertise through lectures, demonstrations and clinical case examples that bring the material to life.

The neck and shoulder are among the most commonly presenting regions in physiotherapy practice — yet they are also among the most misunderstood. A patient’s neck pain may simply be a victim of a Thoracic Ring Driver. Their shoulder pain may switch sides because the true Driver hasn’t been identified. Or the problem may lie in the common and often-missed scenario of a CoDriver relationship between the Thoracic Rings and the Shoulder. Without a whole-body, Driver-based clinical reasoning framework, it’s easy to keep treating the symptom rather than the cause.

This virtual course will give you the skills to reason through the full upper quadrant Driver Profile with confidence — so you always know what’s driving your patient’s symptoms, what to treat first, and what exercises will make the fastest and most lasting change.

You’ll learn how to:

• Determine whether neck symptoms are a Primary Driver or a victim of a Thoracic or Shoulder Driver
• Identify why your patient’s shoulder pain switches sides — and what that tells you about their Driver Profile
• Perform detailed Functional Movement Analysis of the cervical spine (C0–C7) and glenohumeral joint within the ConnectTherapy™ framework
• Understand the pitfalls of common shoulder assessment techniques and learn more reliable, hands-on approaches
• Apply Vector Analysis skills for Neck Drivers, Shoulder Drivers, and Co-Ring Shoulder Drivers
• Address forward head posture and rounded shoulders at their true source — not with cues to “sit up straight” or “pull your shoulder blades back”
• Progress exercises differently depending on whether your patient has a Neck Driver, Thoracic Ring Driver, or Ring-Shoulder CoDriver
• Recognize when the Foot/Ankle complex may be contributing to upper quadrant symptoms

This course is also a key step in the ConnectTherapy™ Series curriculum. If you’ve completed ConnectTherapy™ & the Thorax, this course continues your Series journey and counts toward the ConnectTherapy™ Series Graduate designation.

Registration in this self-paced course gives you access to both the videos and supporting online learning resources for 12 months from your registration date.

Note: The prerequisite for this course is completion of both the Virtual and In-Person components of the ConnectTherapy™ & the Thorax course.

To register, please download and complete the registration form from this page and send to: info@ljlee.ca.

If you have any questions please contact: liz@ljlee.ca