Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, session management, and accessibility. You cannot disable these cookies.

Cookie	Provider	Duration
laravel_session	This website	Session
XSRF-TOKEN	This website	Session
cookie_consent	This website	1 year

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve our website and content.

Cookie	Provider	Duration
_ga	Google Analytics	2 years
_ga_*	Google Analytics	2 years
_gid	Google Analytics	24 hours
_bento*	Bento	1 year
tm_first_touch	This website	400 days
tm_ref	This website	30 days

Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to track visitors across websites to display relevant advertisements. They help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Cookie	Provider	Duration
_fbp	Meta (Facebook)	3 months
_fbc	Meta (Facebook)	3 months

View our cookie policy →

Spinal Examination Fundamentals: Lumbar and Thoracic Spine

Feel like you need better spinal examination skills? Need “how to” guidance for performing your physical assessment. This course, Spinal Examination Fundamentals, delivers just that. Read more ↓

4 Episodes 1h 52m

This is Part 2: Lumbar and Thoracic Spine.
Designed to be watched, practiced, watched again and practiced some more, this course teaches fundamental skills for assessing the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spines in bite-sized chunks. Whether you are a student, new graduate or someone returning to practice who just wants to brush up on their assessments, this course will help you through.

After a review of the evidence surrounding spinal examination skills, these physical assessments are then demonstrated following no particular “school of thought”, using neutral language, in a flexible manner where there is no right or wrong way of doing things.

The aim is to develop safe, comfortable, individualized examination processes for all involved – the therapist and the patient - that consider the multidimensional nature of spinal pain throughout.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this series of videos, and with repeated practice of the procedures demonstrated, participants should be able to:

1. Perform fundamental physical examination procedures for the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spines in a manner that is safe, efficient and comfortable

2. Consider the evidence-based rationale and limitations of individual physical examination procedures

Episodes

Spinal Examination Fundamentals Niamh and Martin

Build a safe, efficient, and patient-centered approach to spinal examination across the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. Discover how to use look, move, and feel with confidence while understanding the evidence, limitations, and clinical reasoning behind each step.

Thoracic Spine Spinal Examination Fundamentals

Learn how to examine the thoracic spine with confidence, from active movement and overpressure to combined movements, palpation, and motion testing. Discover how symptom response, movement quality, and tissue sensitivity guide sharper clinical reasoning and more precise assessment.

Good v Bad Spinal Examination Fundamentals

Learn how to make spinal examination safer, more effective, and more comfortable by adapting your approach to each patient. Through clear good-and-bad examples, you’ll see how communication, positioning, and technique can strengthen trust, avoid leading responses, and improve assessment quality.

Lumbar Spine Spinal Examination Fundamentals

Learn a practical, step-by-step approach to lumbar spine assessment, from movement testing and palpation to neurological and neurodynamic screening. Discover how to identify symptom-provoking patterns, interpret patient responses, and refine your clinical reasoning with greater confidence.

This is Part 2: Lumbar and Thoracic Spine.
Designed to be watched, practiced, watched again and practiced some more, this course teaches fundamental skills for assessing the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spines in bite-sized chunks. Whether you are a student, new graduate or someone returning to practice who just wants to brush up on their assessments, this course will help you through.

After a review of the evidence surrounding spinal examination skills, these physical assessments are then demonstrated following no particular “school of thought”, using neutral language, in a flexible manner where there is no right or wrong way of doing things.

The aim is to develop safe, comfortable, individualized examination processes for all involved – the therapist and the patient - that consider the multidimensional nature of spinal pain throughout.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this series of videos, and with repeated practice of the procedures demonstrated, participants should be able to:

1. Perform fundamental physical examination procedures for the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spines in a manner that is safe, efficient and comfortable

2. Consider the evidence-based rationale and limitations of individual physical examination procedures

Comments

Log in to comment

Trailer

Spinal Examination Fundamentals: Lumbar and Thoracic Spine

Progress 0%

Start

Series Info

4 Episodes

1h 52m

Dec 4, 2025