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The Shneck

(Shoulder + Neck = Because that's how it works)

Shoulder patients are instinctively treated as shoulder patients.

That instinct is wrong more often than most clinicians realize.

1.8

2

Days · Live

CEUs · 18 Hours

$600

Lab

Investment

Forward Format

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The Clinical Reality

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

That delay isn't a knowledge gap. It's an examination gap.

THE MISSED SOURCE

The diagnosis looks clean. The protocol is appropriate. Three sessions in, you start to question your diagnosis. The patient starts to question you. And somewhere around session four, you finally catch it. The source was always the neck.

THE LOADING DEAD

Facet referral mimics mechanical shoulder pain. Discogenic referral reproduces the deep, diffuse ache your patient swears is in the shoulder. Neural mechanosensitivity from the costoclavicular space presents as shoulder weakness that no amount of rotator cuff loading seems to touch. Rotator cuff pathology refers pain down the arm in patterns that look cervical until you examine both. Each one gets missed when the examination stops at one region.

THE SENSITIZED SHOULDER

The overhead athlete whose symptoms stopped following a predictable mechanical pattern. Progressive loading provokes more than it should, and backing off doesn't reset anything. The nervous system is driving the presentation and you can't load your way out of it until you understand what's feeding it.

The cervical spine and shoulder complex are interdependent. You cannot examine one without integrating the other.

Most courses treat them as separate regions. They are not.

Comprehensiveness here isn’t a selling point. It’s a clinical requirement.

Jess Elis

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

Meet the Founder & Your instructor

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 years. Not from a textbook. Not from one system or tool. It’s here so you do not have to learn everything the hard way.

17+

Years in elite professional sport

NBA

Knicks · Trail Blazers · VP of Health

PHD

Bioethics · Professional Sport

What Changes Monday Morning

What you'll do differently in your clinic.

01

Identify whether you're treating a shoulder problem or a cervical problem from session one.

Not after three visits of minimal progress. A systematic framework for ruling in and ruling out cervical contribution before you ever load the glenohumeral joint.

02

When standard rotator cuff protocols plateau, you'll know what to look for upstream. Neural mechanosensitivity, cervical motor control, and costoclavicular space dynamics. Each with a clinical entry point.

Manage the overhead athlete whose shoulder isn't responding to shoulder treatment.

03

Every intervention tied to a diagnosis. You'll understand humeral head centration, scapular vector changes, and the load types the rotator cuff is managing so your treatment has a mechanical rationale behind it.

Select manual therapy and exercise based on the pathomechanics driving the presentation.

04

Make return to sport decisions for the overhead athlete with criteria, not instinct.

Force testing, quadrant position tolerance, rotational motion assessment, and a clear framework for when the system is ready to return to the demands that broke it down.

The Rehab Code courses are the most clinically applicable courses I have taken. After both the knee and shoulder courses I gained assessment and intervention skills that changed my approach with patients the next day in the clinic.

“

Matthew Bray · PT, DPT

The Course

Two days on the floor.

Built on 3+ hours of

required pre-work.

Before You Arrive

Online Pre-Work · ~3.25 Hours. Four modules covering clinical reasoning, shoulder biomechanics, glenohumeral mechanics, and scapular influences. Required and tracked. Day 1 starts where it leaves off. Topics include impingement overdiagnosis, the mechanical paradox of the shoulder, and proximal influences on cuff loading.

Day 1 — Biomechanics, examination, and manual therapy

Static versus dynamic stability, the envelope of function, and how joint position changes every load calculation you make.
Humeral head centration, compressive versus tensile versus shear load, and why secondary shearing forces emerge when orientation is biased.
How cervical spine mechanics influence upper trap and rhomboid function, vector angles to the cuff, and what the anatomical environment is telling you before you test a movement.
A clinical and evidence-based conversation about rotator cuff tendinopathy, failed healing response, and why the diagnosis most patients receive doesn’t match the histology.
Postural assessment for the overhead athlete, total arc of rotational motion, pathological GIRD, stability testing, and quadrant position assessment.
Symptom modification as a diagnostic tool, then rotator cuff soft tissue mobilization, joint mobilizations, and cervical spine techniques in sequence.
Cloward sign, facet referral patterns, regional interdependence, neurogenic influence on shoulder pain, and cervical demands specific to the throwing athlete.
How scapular position changes neural clearance, 1st rib test item cluster, and what adverse neural tension actually means beyond the word tightness.
HHD setup for the shoulder, rotator cuff endurance testing, and the full isometric spectrum with the TUT, joint angle, and moment arm organizing principle.

Day 2 — Strengthening, training, and return to sport

Sidelying ER centration, Americana and Kimura-positioned MRE, scapular facilitation in the throwing motion, late cocking traction, and release point approximation.
From 90/90 isometric holds through end-range dynamic stability. Load tolerance built at positions that matter for the overhead athlete.
Advanced loading blending prolonged isometric tension with slow controlled isotonic movement. Fatigue demand, centration requirements, and clinical application.
Maintaining humeral head control under force at or near end-range. Ideal for labral pathology, hypermobility, and the shoulder that feels unstable but tests strong.
Intensive versus extensive variations for the overhead athlete across a rehabilitation continuum.
Criteria-based decision making for the overhead athlete. Force benchmarks, motion standards, and the reasoning framework for knowing when the system is ready.

Seattle Metro.

One weekend that changes how you think about every shoulder that walks in your door.

September 26-27, 2026

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100 N 35th Street, Seattle, WA 98103

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From Clinicians on the Floor

What People Are Saying

"I would recommend this course to any practitioner working on the neck and shoulder. There was some lecture and a lot of manual techniques we can immediately use in the clinic. Loved it."

Matthew Bray

PT, DPT

"The Rehab Code courses are the most clinically applicable courses I have taken. After both the knee and shoulder courses I gained assessment and intervention skills that changed my approach with patients the next day in the clinic."

Kyle Cicero