The Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Reflex Therapy (ACPIRT)
REFLEX THERAPY FOUNDATION COURSE
This learning opportunity has been awarded the CSP Quality Mark
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This 8 day foundation course has been developed by the Education Committee of
ACPIRT as an integration of various schools of teachings and experience, to produce a course which introduces healthcare practitioners to the practice of Reflex Therapy.
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The aim of the course is to teach the concepts that underpin Reflex Therapy as an assessment and treatment tool. Reflex Therapy has evolved as a clinical modality which encompasses the practices of Reflexology, the Midland School of
Reflextherapy and Reflex Zone Therapy. It treats the person as a whole, by incorporating the principles of holism with an evidence based approach to health and disease.
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The Foundation Course aims to give students the skills to safely and effectively integrate Reflex Therapy into medical practice within individual healthcare settings, and in accordance to their respective codes of professional conduct. Using clinical reasoning skills, Reflex Therapy can be adapted for use across a broad spectrum of medical genres, and applied to babies through to adult life, making the course suitable for medically trained professionals such as physiotherapists, nurses, doctors and other Allied Health Professionals.
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The course has been endorsed by the CSP as a learning opportunity that has been awarded the CSP Quality Mark.
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The 8 day course of 56 hours direct contact CPD, is delivered in 4 weekend modules, over a 6 month period. Attendance at all weekends is required to achieve certification of attendance.
Course dates are: 28 th Feb/1 st Mar; 28 th /29 th Mar; 9/10 th May; 26/27 th Sept 2015.
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The total cost of the 8 day course is £1200 , with refreshments and lunch included.
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Teaching methods will involve tutorials, demonstration, practical exercises, discussion, reflective practice, clinical reasoning and critical reading. Students are expected to actively participate in this highly practical course whilst adhering to the rules of professional conduct as laid down by their individual professional bodies.
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Although this course holds no formal examination, the competence of students will be assessed by various methods, which include: continual supervision; individual and group presentation; multiple choice questions; submission of two case studies; and an open practical assessment.
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The 2015 course venue is :
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Pre-requisites:
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Qualified Health Professional (HPC registered or professional registration equivalent)
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Good understanding of human anatomy and physiology
Course objectives:
1. To understand and be able to explain the hypotheses underpinning the mechanisms by which Reflex Therapy is considered to exert its effects.
2. To have a good understanding of holism and healing, including western and eastern perspectives.
3. To use an integrated approach to holistic care management, by safely and effectively incorporating Reflex Therapy into a variety of healthcare settings and medical situations.
4. To be able to critically evaluate and clinically reason the use of Reflex Therapy as a suitable modality in a treatment programme.
5. To be able to adapt treatment to patient/client needs.
6. To understand how to maintain therapeutic boundaries and practice self care and personal development.
Learning outcomes:
On completion of the course the participants should:
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be able to adequately carry out a subjective and objective assessment of a patient in relation to the presentation and physical findings on the feet.
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be able to demonstrate the selection, application and adaptation of a basic Reflex
Therapy treatment in context of individual need, medical condition and safety - of both patient and therapist.
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be able to justify and critically evaluate the application of Reflex Therapy.
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know how to care for oneself and understand the importance of doing so.
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be able to demonstrate awareness of clinical effectiveness by use of outcome measures, time restraints and cost effectiveness of Reflex Therapy interventions.
Learning support:
Telephone and email contact will be provided by course tutors and the course co-ordinator between modules.
Pre-course learning:
A recommended reading list will be provided prior to the course commencing.
Students are expected to undertake self- directed study in preparation for attending the modules, in order to enhance the direct tutor contact hours.
Participants may need different lengths of time for reading, reflective practice and the preparation of case studies, but it is anticipated that approximately 14 hours of indirect study will accompany each module of 14 hours direct contact time.
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Course Tutors: The course is tutored by an elected education group of members of the
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Reflex Therapy (ACPIRT).
The group represents a wealth of knowledge and experience in Reflex Therapy in various clinical settings and specialities.
The lectures and practical sessions will be led by different clinicians within the group as the weekends progress, providing a high student to tutor ratio.
The lead tutors are: Gunnel Berry MSc MCSP www.gunnelberry.com
Marion Murdoch MCSP
Jo Smith Oliver MCSP www.josmitholiver.com
Gunnel Berry trained as a physiotherapist at the Middlesex Hospital, London, qualifying in 1974. She completed a MSc in advanced physiotherapy at the UCL in 1995 and a PostGradCert in research methodology at the
University of Brighton in 2005. Gunnel trained as a reflexologist in 1989 at the Bayly School of Reflexology. She has laid the foundation of Adapted Reflextherapy in Pain (AdRx) during work as a Clinical Specialist in Pain in the
NHS and private practice in Hampshire. She has presented papers at the World Physical Therapy Congress,
Physiotherapy Congress and at Annual Conferences of the Clinical Association in Reflexology, the Bayly School of Reflexology and the Scottish Institute of Reflexology. She is a committee member of ACPIRT and instigated the Membership Audit of ACPIRT in 2009 and is a co-writer for its summary article now on line awaiting publishing. She contributed to the Clinical Reflexology Ed. 2 book, eds. Tiran D & Mackereth P, 2011. She has now retired from clinical practice but continues with educational issues within ACPIRT.
Marion Murdoch has been qualified as a Physiotherapist since 1979, and after the first 3 years specialised in muskulo-skeletal therapy. Marion worked in OPDs for the next 7 years in the UK and abroad. As a Deputy Superintendent in Stoke-on-Trent Marion studied on a General
Management Training Course at Birmingham University before deciding to move into Private
Practice. Marion gradually moved towards Energy Medicine, and qualified with the Midlands
School of Reflextherapy in 1998. Her studies have continued with further reflextherapy courses,
Counselling, absent/distant healing, dowsing and various other techniques, with which she combines Eastern and Western Medicine philosophies, never losing sight of her remit as a physiotherapist. Marion has now run her very successful Private Practice for 25 years in the small Shropshire town of Church Stretton, where she enjoys a good relationship with the medical profession, the community and treats people from the area and far afield.
Jo Smith Oliver has been a chartered physiotherapist for 33 years. She has worked extensively in industry and in private practice specialising in musculoskeletal disorders. She taught internationally for the Society of
Orthopaedic Medicine in the first 15 years of her professional life. Jo qualified in Reflex Zone therapy in 1988 and in Reflextherapy in 1995. She has assisted with and held many reflextherapy courses for the Midland School of Reflextherapy since that time. Jo set up a successful complementary health centre in London in 1996. She now divides her time between London and Dorset as a practitioner and leader of small workshops and retreats.
Other contributors will be assistant teachers. They will contribute with their knowledge and experience of using physiotherapy in context of Reflex Therapy.
Contact details:
For further course details and information please contact:
ACPIRT Foundation Course Co-ordinator Gunnel Berry
Email: info.ACPIRTfoundationcourse@gmail.com
or telephone 01256 389722.
Application form and payment please send to:
Gunnel Berry
Hunter’s Moon Cottage
Preston Candover nr Basingstoke RG25 2EP.
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