MT7: Dynamic Soft Tissue Mobilization (Des Plaines, Illinois, USA)

13 Dec 2025 - 14 Dec 2025

MT7: Dynamic Soft Tissue Mobilization

This unique Dynamic Soft Tissue Mobilization course integrates anatomy, biomechanics, and neurophysiology concepts to achieve optimal functional outcomes. You will explore the relevant anatomy of key extremity and spinal muscles and their synergies during functional movement. This course delivers treatment concepts to promote circulation, pain inhibition, and movement restoration and improvement. The techniques in this course are dynamic; integrating neuromuscular control and pain inhibition. You will learn to:

  • Recognize the indications and contradictions of soft tissue mobilization procedures.
  • Understand the anatomy and neurophysiology of the connective tissue and its effect on muscle function.
  • Integrate mechanical, neurological, and physiological knowledge to optimize treatment outcomes.
  • Provide a rationale as to which soft tissue technique is best to improve vascular flow, inhibit pain, or normalize movement.
  • Apply appropriate body mechanics and patient considerations for the best delivery of soft tissue mobilization.
  • Demonstrate a variety of specific and general soft tissue techniques to the extremities and the spine.
  • Evaluate the difference between soft tissue and joint restriction.
  • Analyze the current literature on soft tissue mobilization. Open to PT Assistant & can be combined with several other courses in the months to come for a Certification in Orthopedic Manual Therapy

Course Details

Registration Open (UTC): 2025-11-07 (08:00 AM)

Start Date (UTC): 2025-12-13 (08:00 AM)

End Date (UTC): 2025-12-14 (08:00 PM)

Course Fee: $249


Faculty Details

Tom Mollsen

Faculty (PT, DMT, MPT, A.T., C., FAAOMPT)

E-mail: tmollsen@olagrimsby.com

Tom has over 25 years of extensive experience in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries and conditions as a licensed physical therapist, licensed athletic trainer, and certified massage therapist. Tom served as the head athletic trainer for 9 years at Elmhurst College. In this capacity, Tom coordinated the medical care of individuals participating in 16 men's and women's NCAA Division Ill sports programs. He was also the head athletic trainer for the Nike-sponsored Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kendall Gill, and BJ Armstrong Youth Basketball Camps for 8 years. Tom graduated from Midwestern University's College of Health Sciences with a Master of Physical Therapy degree in 2002. In 2014, he completed the Ola Grimsby Institute (OGI) residency program earning a Doctorate of Manual Physical Therapy degree. Tom completed the OGl's fellowship program and was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists in 2016. Through the Roy Matheson program, Tom is a certified work capacity evaluator. Tom is a full-time clinician and owner of Midwest Manual Physical Therapy, an outpatient manual physical therapy clinic in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Outside of work, Tom holds a fourth-degree blackbelt in Gangi's Kung Fu System/Kang Chuan Do, a kung-fu based martial arts system.