Coming to Baltimore area · Oct 17–18, 2026 · Gambrills, MD

COMPLEXITIES

OF THE

KNEE COMPLEX

You know the diagnosis. You know what needs to happen.

The patient still isn't tolerating load.

That's not a protocol problem. That's a reasoning problem.

1.8

2

DAYS · LIVE

CEUS · 18 HOURS

LAB

$600

INVESTMENT

FORWARD FORMAT

RESERVE YOUR SEAT →

Cohort limited — lab format requires it

Nearly as impactful as my orthopedic residency. At a fraction of the time and cost.

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"I first discovered Jess through social media and was immediately struck by his practical approach and evident passion for the profession. I took the knee course and participated in M2M. The clinical insights, the guided self-evaluation, the discussions with an exceptional group of peers all of it was stimulating and immediately applicable. Having completed an orthopedic residency, I can honestly say the six weeks were nearly as impactful, at a fraction of the time and cost."

Blake Van Maanen

PT · DPT · OCS

Course participant

Mentorship to Mastery - Cohort 13

Trusted by organizations across the country

You've been treating knees long enough to know when something isn't adding up.

That inconsistency isn't a skill gap. It's a depth gap.

THE LOAD QUESTION

Your patient needs quad strength. Every loading strategy you try provokes. You back off. You try again. The window keeps moving. You're not guessing; you know your anatomy and your progressions, but you can't identify the variable driving the intolerance.

THE IDENTICAL CASES

Two ACL presentations. Same mechanism, same protocol, different outcomes. One progresses on schedule. The other plateaus at week four with no clear reason. The diagnosis didn't change. Something in the tissue did and you need a framework to read it.

THE SENSITIZED KNEE

Pain stopped following biomechanical logic three sessions ago. Loading provokes. Backing off doesn't reset. Managing central sensitization alongside a structural knee problem is one of the hardest scenarios in outpatient ortho. It requires a different lens entirely.

WHAT THIS COURSE DOES

Most knee courses teach you what to do. This one teaches you why it works and what to change when it doesn't. Comprehensiveness here isn't a selling point. It's a clinical requirement.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Jess Elis

PT · DPT · PhD · FAAOMPT · OCS · SCS · COMT · CSCS

Seventeen years making clinical decisions on professional athletes, in environments where the standard of care isn't a suggestion. Fellowship trained in orthopaedic manual therapy through Evidence in Motion. Executive medical leadership across the New York Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers, and EXOS. PhD in bioethics focused on professional sport. Consulting in professional tennis and international sport at the Olympic level.

The depth in this course comes from operating at that level for that long not from a textbook, and not from a single system or tool. It's here, so you don't have to build it the hard way. Clinicians from residency programs, D1 athletics programs, and private sports practices across the country have attended and applied the frameworks the following Monday.

17+

Years in elite professional sport

NBA

Knicks · Trail Blazers · VP of Health

PhD

Bioethics · Professional Sport

After this course

what changes on monday

morning in your clinic.

Use symptom modification to confirm pathomechanics and move straight to manual therapy.

01

Symptom modification tells you what the tissue responds to. Manual therapy becomes the trial treatment that proves it.

Load patellar tendinopathy and patellofemoral syndrome correctly, even when the presentation isn't clean.

02

Same complex, opposite loading strategies. You'll know which one you're dealing with and exactly what that means for your progression.

03

Navigate the sensitized knee without abandoning your loading framework.

When pain stops following biomechanical logic, you'll have a lens for managing central sensitization alongside structural rehab rather than choosing between them.

Make return to sport decisions you can defend with criteria.

04

Clear mechanical rationale for when the tissue is ready. No more judgment calls made on feel alone.

Two days on the floor, built on 3+ hours of required online pre-work.

What you examine on day one is what you load on day two.

Day 1 — Assessment, manual therapy, and loading foundations

Normal ROM, gait mechanics, and how intra-articular versus extra-articular pathology changes your loading decisions from session one.
Grading, palpation, and Bernoulli's principle applied clinically. Understanding joint reactivity before you load it.
Full knee extension restoration, accessory rotation, screw home mechanism, and hip-knee coordination assessments.
Symptom modification as a real-time diagnostic tool, then immediate integration into quad-specific soft tissue and joint mobilization.
Quad and hamstring complex strength testing with HHD. Data that informs your loading decisions.
MRE application, constraint-based movement assessment, and compensatory pattern recognition.
Quad and soleus synergy

Day 2 — Hamstring complex, tendons, plyometrics, and return to sport

Biomechanics, soft tissue and neurodynamic techniques, and hip versus knee dominant training strategies with clear criteria for each.
A structure that rarely gets its own block. Manual therapy and integrated MRE for a muscle that matters more than most courses acknowledge.
Intensive versus extensive variations sequenced across a rehabilitation continuum.
Patellar tendinopathy versus fat pad irritation, reactive versus degenerative staging, and the loading decisions that determine whether a tendon adapts or breaks down.
One of the most undertrained capacities in knee rehab. Assessed, trained, and progressed as a distinct physical quality.
90 minutes on the hardest conversation in knee rehab. Criteria-based decision making and a reasoning framework for knowing when the tissue is actually ready.

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What People Are Saying

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FROM CLINICIANS ON THE FLOOR

As a clinic director, the immediate introduction of new principles and ways of thinking by providers shows the practical application of the course content to raise the bar in the clinic. Exceptional course with an engaging presenter, current research with the most practical way to apply interventions to patients."

Robert E.

PT · Clinic Director

Outpatient Sports & Orthopedic Practice

"Going into this course, I was hoping for a strong framework to help organize techniques and exercises. That is exactly what this course delivered. Actionable, logical, and evidence-based strategies to understand and affect a variety of knee conditions."

Eathan Schultz

PT · DPT

"This course changed my approach to knee rehab. It dives into the nuances of decision making and treatment that directly improves outcomes."

Brock Hanke

PT · DPT · OCS

"This class was by far the best CEU class I've taken. Not too much lecturing, lots of lab time to practice techniques. I left feeling like I could confidently replicate what I learned and add it to my treatment plan with patients."

Breanne Brett

PT · DPT · OCS, CSCS

"I was able to successfully apply the biomechanical principles and techniques on Monday after the course with patients I had been struggling with for weeks.”

Jonathan Nguyen

PT · DPT

October 17–18, 2026 · Gambrills, MD

Baltimore.

October.

one weekend that changes

how you think about every

knee that walks in your door.

$600

1.8 CEUs

Gambrills, MD

OCT 17-18

LOCATION

DATE

18 CONTACT HOURS