Online specialist course
Make thoracic spine and rib mobilisation more clinically useful.
A practical online course for understanding thoracic mobility, rib mechanics and advanced mobilisation/manipulation options.
£149course access
Onlinestudy at your pace
Pathwaylinks into John's training
Who it is for
Built for practical therapists, not passive course collectors.
For therapists who want more confidence treating thoracic stiffness, rib-related symptoms and regional movement restriction.
What you will work through
- Study Anatomy of the Thoracic Spine & Ribs inside the online course.
- Study Mobilisations vs Manipulations inside the online course.
- Study Spinal Mechanics inside the online course.
- Study Assessment of the Thoracic Spine inside the online course.
How this fits your learning
This course can stand on its own, and it also gives you a clearer route into John's wider Bodymaster Method training when you are ready.
- Study online at your own pace.
- Use the course as a practical next step in John's online library.
- Keep the full Diploma pathway visible without needing to choose it today.
Course breakdown
10 thoracic spine and rib sections from the online course.
The course covers thoracic and rib anatomy, mobilisation versus manipulation, spinal mechanics, thoracic assessment, METs, mobilisation, manipulation, cervicothoracic junction and ribs.
Bodymaster Method pathway
This can be part of a bigger journey with John.
Practitioners can start here, then move into the Bodymaster Method Practitioner Diploma route. Completing the full Diploma route is the route towards Dip BmP recognition and John's public practitioner directory.
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Learn from John Gibbons
Practical teaching from a clinician, author and Bodymaster Method educator.
John teaches with a practical clinical focus, so learners can connect anatomy, assessment and treatment reasoning to the kind of presentations they see in clinic.