The Cervico-Thoracic Complex 2026

The Cervico-Thoracic Complex 2026 is organized by Therapy Network Seminars (TNS) and will be held from Nov 21 - 22, 2026 at Metro Physical Therapy, New York City, New York, United States of America.

Description:
Neck pain leads to significant disability and limits functional abilities for patients at all levels. Treatment approaches can often be confusing due to dogmatic classification systems, which can be overly complicated and difficult to apply in a clinically meaningful way. However, patients with regional disorders often present with similar clinical presentations. These clinical presentations can often guide clinicians towards the best treatment options.

This course is designed to be eclectic in its delivery to best suit the needs the busy clinician. Treatment approaches are organized based on categories that are consistent with how patients that report neck pain are likely to present. Clinical presentations such as chronic neck pain, radiculopathy, traumatic onset, asymmetric movements, headache or myofascial pain are common in clinical practice. This course will provide treatment options in a multimodal context that are grouped to address the most common clinical presentations. Finally, treatment approaches are organized in a logical way providing examples of how the treatments could be integrated.

Objectives

• Identify relevant clinical cervicothoracic anatomy to facilitate evaluation and treatment of patients with neck pain.
• Identify the most common clinical presentations associated with the cervicothoracic pain.
• Identify examination findings associated with the most common cervicothoracic pain clinical presentations.
• Identify treatment progressions based on clinical presentation and how to progress/regress treatment.
• Demonstrate treatment procedures for a given clinical presentation.
• Identify how treatment pathways may be altered for unique clinical situations in those with cervicothoracic pain.