DNS Clinical B - Toronto - November 2027

DNS Clinical B - Toronto - November 2027

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  • Location

    Toronto, ON

    Venue TBD

  • Date

    November 12-14, 2027

  • Time

    Friday: 8:30 AM - 5 PM

    Saturday: 8:30 AM - 5 PM

    Sunday: 8 AM - 1 PM

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Who's This Course For?

Physical Therapists 

Chiropractors 

Athletic Trainer/Therapists

*Healthcare professionals with an interest in Movement Based Exercise and Rehabilitation

Course Highlights

  • Deep Dive into Developomental Kinesiology

    And how to use it to optimize postural locomotor function in functional rehabilitation

  • Advanced Movement and Motor Control Assessment Skills

    Build the eye to see, and the skills to rehabilitate common MSK disorders through movement and motor control optimization

  • Beyond the Base of Sagittal Stabilization

    Using higher developmental positions and transitional movements to address joint decentration and inefficient stabilization function

  • Clinical Reasoning in Motor Control and Movement Based Rehabilitation

    Advanced your clinical reasoning through engaging lectures, demonstrations and hands-on, practical workshops, to apply DNS into everyday practice

  • Corrective Exercise Progressions

    Integrate corrective exercises based on DNS functional testing. Train exercises in differentiated ipsilateral and contralateral static positions, transitions between positions, and with use of unstable surfaces

  • Practically Master Facilitation of Local & Global Movement Based Rehab Progressions

    Control intra-abdominal pressure, work with functional joint centration, guide movement through stable segments, and transfer acquired skills into patients’ daily lives as well as into athletic performance.

Physiotherapist, Educator

Petra Valouchova, PhD, MPT

Dr. Petra earned her Master’s in Physical Therapy from Palacky University (1998) and a Ph.D. in Kinanthropology specializing in Biomechanics and gait analysis (2001). After joining the Rehabilitation and Sport Medicine Department at Motol University Hospital in 2002, she went on to become the Chief Physiotherapist at Professor Kolář’s prestigious Centre of Movement Medicine in Prague in 2011, where she has overseen both physical therapy departments since 2018.

An accomplished academic, Petra lectures on sports medicine, biomechanics, and developmental neurology at Charles University Medical School. She is a published researcher in surface electromyography (sEMG) and an international instructor in Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) and Developmental Kinesiology, a modality she has taught since 2002. Within DNS, she specializes in sports medicine, running mechanics, pediatrics, and foot dysfunctions.

Her clinical practice is backed by extensive certifications, including Vojta Reflex Locomotion, the Bobath Concept, Lewit’s manual techniques, Stecco Fascial Manipulation, Visceral Manipulation (Barral), and Dry Needling. Notably, Petra is also a former world-class athlete, having won the Fitness Step Team World Championship in 2003 and 2004.

Course Description

DNS B builds on the foundation of Course A, extending into the differentiated global movement patterns — ipsilateral and contralateral — that define mature human locomotion. Participants will develop advanced assessment and treatment skills across the full developmental sequence, with hands-on application across a broad range of clinical populations.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze the kinesiological content and movement quality of differentiated ipsilateral and contralateral global movement patterns, and explain their relationship to locomotor pathology

  • Perform advanced functional assessment of both undifferentiated and differentiated developmental positions using visual, palpatory, and dynamic DNS testing

  • Design and progress DNS corrective exercise programs through differentiated static positions, positional transitions, unstable surfaces, resistance against planned movement, and isolated segmental training

  • Apply advanced clinical reasoning to integrate DNS assessment and corrective strategies into everyday practice, including patient education

  • Adapt DNS principles across specialized populations — pediatric (DNS FIT Kid), athletic (threshold and performance training), neurological (SCI, stroke, spasticity), obstetric (pelvic floor and diaphragm function during pregnancy), and geriatric patients

Course Outline

Day 1:

Session 1: Ontogenesis – review with emphasis on differentiated movement patterns.

Break

Session 2: Review of assessment and therapy in undifferentiated positions (diaphragm test, upper limb elevation test, intra-abdominal pressure control in supine).

Lunch

Session 3: Testing in differentiated movement patterns (rolling patterns, differentiated quadruped position, crawling, differentiated bear position).

Break

Session 4: Patient demonstrations – live or video-based, including analysis.

 

Day 2:

Session 1: Review of assessment and therapy in undifferentiated positions (intra-abdominal pressure control in sitting, quadruped position, modifications in low kneeling, bear, squat).

Break

Session 2: Therapy in differentiated positions – workshop: side-lying, oblique sitting.

Lunch

Session 3: Therapy in differentiated positions – workshop: crawling.

Break

Session 4: Therapy in differentiated positions – workshop: differentiated bear position. Group exercise in developmental positions.

 

Day 3:

Session 1: Application of DNS principles across different populations (infants and children, women during pregnancy and postpartum, application in sports, and in the elderly population).

Break

Session 2: Workshop: Test – Therapy – Retest (differentiated and undifferentiated models)

Lunch

Session 3: Summary of therapy principles, guiding patients toward self-therapy. Discussion, Q&A