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

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

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

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Courses at Advanced Kinetics Physical Therapy in Falls Church

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


Courses at Advanced Kinetics Physical Therapy in Falls Church, VA


October 23-24, 2021: C-621 Lower Extremity  /  21 CEUs  /  Get course details & register

November 6-7, 2021: C-611 Lumbopelvic Spine II  /  21 CEUs  /  Get course details & register


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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 Instructors

Liz Henry, PT, DSc, OCS, COMT, FAAOMPT, CCTT 

NAIOMT Teaching Faculty Liz Henry is the president of LifeForce Physical Therapy in Wilmington, NC where she specializes in temporomandibular and craniofacial dysfunction, golf injury rehabilitation and golf performance, and dance injury/rehabilitation. She is senior consulting therapist at the Carolina Ballet and formerly worked with the New York City Ballet for 25 years. In addition to being a member of the APTA, AAOMPT, she is also a member of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain. Liz underwent fellowship training with NAIOMT in 2011 and was accepted as a Fellow by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (FAAOMPT).

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NAIOMT faculty instructor Angela Gordon

Angela, Gordon, PT, DSc, MPT, FAAOMPT, COMT, ATC, OCS, FMS

Angela Gordon earned her Masters of Physical Therapy from Andrews University in Dayton, Ohio 2002, and her Doctorate of Science from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan 2012. Dr. Gordon earned her orthopedic manual therapist certification through NAIOMT in 2012 and is a certified athletic trainer. In 2012 Dr. Gordon received her dry needling specialist certification and in 2014 became Board Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist from the American Physical Therapy Association. Dr. Gordon has served as the lead physical therapist for the Washington Nationals Baseball in 2005 and from 2010-2015. She works extensively with numerous professional and semi professional athletes from Major League Baseball, PGA, Canadian Football League, and European basketball players

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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.