Pick Your Path

  • Individual Courses

    Take individual courses in any order, earning 21 CEUs for each level I and level II course in approved states.

  • Certification

    Complete your CMPT certification mentored by NAIOMT’s experienced instructors.

  • Fellowship Program

    Become a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists through NAIOMT’s ACOMPTE Accredited Fellowship Program.

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NAIOMT is offering post professional courses in Denver, CO. Experience your career in a whole new, satisfying way as you gain the skills it takes to treat more complex patient problems.


Courses at Porter Adventist Hospital 

February 27-28, 2022: C-611 Lumbopelvic Spine II

April 24-25, 2022: C-616 Cervical Spine II

October 23-24, 2022: C-621 Lower Extremity


Watch Intro Video

Is Spinal Accessory Nerve a Source of Chronic Upper Trapezius Pain/Tightness?

Watch faculty instructor Liz Henry demonstrate key techniques from NAIOMT's cervical spine courses.

What Our Students Say

If you are a novice practitioner committed to the orthopedic manual physical therapy, NAIOMT will give you an excellent foundation to help you master the patient with complex neuromuscular conditions. Safe and efficient manual therapy assessments and interventions based on sound clinical reasoning, current evidence, and anatomy and physiology are taught in a comfortable setting with time for hands-on learning and feedback.

For the experienced practitioner, NAIOMT will complement your current clinical skills while challenging you to grow in areas of clinical reasoning and deepen your appreciation for doing the basics well. Mastery enables you to handle even the most complicated regional interdependent conditions.

Mette Coleman, PT, CMPT, DSc student, Fellow in training OMPT

Meet Your Instructor

NAIOMT Faculty Instructor Kathy Stupansky

Kathy Stupansky, PT, DSc, OCS, FAAOMPT

Kathy Stupansky graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1981. She has been certified in advanced manual therapy techniques since 1993 and an instructor with North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy (NAIOMT) since 1992. She is currently a Market Manager with Select Physical Therapy. She has lectured and taught several courses for NAIOMT and to various clinics and study groups.


Michael House, PT, DSc, OCS, FAAOMPT

Michael House graduated from Ithaca College in 1997 with his Master'sdegree. He completed his Doctor of Science of Physical Therapy in 2010 from Andrews University and in the process also passed his OCS in 2008. In 2014, Dr. House completed his fellowship with NAIOMT under the guidance and mentorship of Ann Porter Hoke andPhil Plante.Michael is the owner of Back To Motion Physical Therapy in Denver, CO. He has a special interest cervicogenic symptoms and the sequelae of symptoms to the head, spine, and upper extremities. He incorporates trigger point dry needling into hismanual therapy techniques.

Learn more about Michael House:

Meaningful Mentors: Meet NAIOMT’s Michael House

Porter Adventist Hospital - Centura

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NAIOMT

The North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy

The North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy, Inc. (NAIOMT) is a private physical therapist-owned organization dedicated to achieving the highest standards of clinical practice for manual physical therapists.

NAIOMT specializes in a flexible teaching program, which seeks to promote the utilization of safe, effective and efficient manual physical therapy management of musculoskeletal dysfunction. It further seeks an environment that is conducive to the application of a reasoned approach to manual physical therapy through critical inquiry and the creation of new knowledge and skills based on scientific study and dissemination of that knowledge.

NAIOMT strongly supports the union of the clinician, academician and researcher to further facilitate the development of quality patient care, physical therapy education and the development of master clinicians.