Certification Overview

There are definite benefits of why consider Certification in Orthopedic manual therapy. One, simply put, is to make life better. To reaffirm the exciting reason why you chose to be a therapist and make every day fun. Certify for the Ease of Clinical Practice

The other equally powerful rationale is to elevate your career and reach for a higher level of success. Certify for Professional Transformation and broaden your horizons through new emphasis and credentialing.

Whether you are wanting to feel better in your role as a therapist or you are in the position ask "what's next", the IAOM-US can help guide you there.

Certification for:
Ease of Clinical Practice

Make practice fun!

IAOM Certification in Orthopedic Manual Therapy brings your clinical assessment and treatment tools to an automatic level. You won't have to think so hard!

  • During patient interaction speak with confidence in explaining why the individual hurts, the parameters of the condition, and what can be done about it.

  • By applying a systematic approach to every clinical examination, you will be able to see clinical patterns emerge, and also share findings more easily with colleagues (to include the entire medical community).

  • Knowing which treatment tools to apply when, where, and to which conditions produces successful outcomes with every patient.

Certify for Professional Transformation

Evolve to a Higher Levels in Your Career!

You have invested a tremendous amount to get where you are today. Enjoy your profession more every year. Prevent job burnout and patient heart-sink by taking advantage of what the IAOM has to offer: lifetime career enhancement through professional transformation, by systematically reaching one higher level at a time.

The IAOM-US offers the clinician the resources and tools which serve as a segue to expanding your horizons and reaching new milestones.

  • Stay informed!
    • Membership: allows clinicians to keep their fingers on the pulse of contemporary musculoskeleletal clinical practice. IAOM-US resources serve as a portal to spring-boarding into the transformational process.
  • Organize your clinical toolbox.
    Learn the system for ease of clinical assessment and treatment application for all types of orthopedic patients.
    • Coursework: transforms the clinician into a systematic and functional practitioner. The IAOM-US offers certification course series tailored to your needs. These are accompanied by specialty courses in a variety of practice domains.
      • Complete the IAOM course series and your clinical toolbox will be well organized for ease of assessment and treatment with any orthopedic patient.
  • Meet the Challenge
    • Certification: transforms the clinician with the challenge of systematically and completely understanding and implementing clinical examination and management tools. In so doing, the clinician rises to a higher level of practice expertise across different pathologies found in orthopedic populations.
      • Complete this transformation and clinical practice becomes easy and fun, even with difficult cases. Feel supremely confident in specific methodologies and build a reputation for expertise.
  • Be A Leader.
    Certification serves as a prerequisite for the Fellowship and Doctoral Education and puts you on the right path to standout nationally in musculoskeletal clinical management.
    • Fellowship: Evolve through advanced diagnostic and management skills positioning you at the top of the field. Enjoy the prestige and referrals that come along with the next-level of credentialing: "Fellowship Trained".
    • Doctoral Education: emphasizes professional development and expertise necessary for transforming the clinician into a leader in the areas of musculoskeletal clinical management, professional education, and clinical research.
      • Complete this transformation and go on to teach others in higher levels of academia, national conferences, and through publication.