Thank you for your interest! The mission of the Ola Grimsby Institute is to provide the highest quality integrated post-graduate manual therapy education in orthopedic manual therapy. The Institute’s programs aim to develop a competent and autonomous professional capable of diagnosing and caring for patients with neuro-musculoskeletal dysfunction. The Institute serves to support, encourage, and facilitate the pursuit of excellence in orthopedic patient care by advancing the skills and intellectual competency of the clinician and by encouraging and requiring clinically relevant research. The instructors exemplify the manual therapy clinician as well as enable the fellowship student to understand, synthesize and apply scientific knowledge, manual skills, and critical thinking to patient assessment and intervention. We do this by enabling our students to design scientific, evidence-based treatments for the health of each individual patient, resulting in a reduced number of treatments and improved outcomes.

The Institute believes that the professional development of the physical therapist is an ongoing and continuous path; therefore, one of the Institute’s responsibilities is to provide practicing physical therapists and other healthcare professionals with instructional programs in outpatient orthopedic manual therapy that are current and inclusive of evolving research.

Our Orthopedic Residency program has been taught nationally and internationally since the 1980s, before the formation of accrediting bodies for residency programs. All aspects of evaluation, soft tissue work, joint mobilization, extremity and spinal manipulation, exercise, and education are thoroughly covered. One-to-one clinical mentoring reinforces the resident’s experience beyond simple continuing education coursework or online lectures. Strengths of the Orthopedic Residency program include a foundation in basic sciences and an evidence-based background in clinical practice. With an emphasis on differential diagnosis and critical thinking, the program takes you beyond simple classification system to determine diagnosis and intervention. Methods to improve clinical reasoning and problem solving which will assist with the development of a patient diagnosis as well as a plan of care. Stop guessing and know exactly what you are treating and how you will impact the patient.