The Clear 7-Step Routine for Any Condition

In Total Motion Release, the Clear 7-Step Routine is designed to work for every condition—whether it’s orthopedic, neurological, pediatric, acute, or chronic. This routine covers all the bases and stays the same regardless of the issue you’re addressing.

You’ll practice the routine in two key body positions until it becomes second nature, giving you consistent, predictable results no matter the condition. Each of the 15 lessons builds on the last, helping you unlock deeper restriction levels as you go.

Understanding Tissue Function

The Clear 7-Step Routine is based on a core principle of how tissue functions. You’ll learn tissue moves in only two directions to release tension and pain. Once you understand this, you’ll see why the routine is so effective across various conditions.

The Role of the 9 Tissues in Pain Relief

You’ll dive into how different tissues respond to pain. Specifically, 7 types of tissues respond best when they shorten (moving into comfort), and 2 prefer lengthening (moving into restriction). This understanding will help you approach pain and restrictions in a more targeted way.

6 Core Movements Behind All Motion

What might surprise you is that all body movements come from just 6 basic motions. These 6 core movements, combined with 4 directions and 3 joint positions, form the foundation of every motion. We call these the FAB 6 and Super 6 (regulars and alternates). Mastering these significantly shortens the time it takes to get a result.

The Power of the 4 Opposites

The power of the 4 Opposites is a major part of TMR. You’ll learn how to use the 4 opposite motions to uncover hidden restrictions, find the parts of the body that move the best, and discover more potential solutions to any condition.

Quick 3-Segment Body Scan

You’ll learn a simple, quick body scan broken into 3 segments. This method lets you observe how different body parts interact—like a pulley and lever system—helping you pinpoint the connections that cause or relieve pain.

Focusing on 4 Body Regions

To get long-lasting results, it’s important to address all four key regions of the body, not just the painful area. Focusing only on the injured area uses just 12.5% of the body’s healing potential. By working with the 3 non-painful regions and their good sided movement, you’ll witness the body’s interconnectedness and how quickly it can impact the problem area.

Adjusting with 3 Proven Rules

You will learn 3 simple, effective rules for adjusting the routine based on a patient’s response—whether they improve, stay the same, or get worse. These rules cover all possible outcomes during treatment and are clearly outlined on a single sheet for easy reference. This structured approach eliminates guesswork, guiding you on when to modify or change exercises.

Fine-Tuning for Maximum Effectiveness

You’ll explore how to fine-tune each motion to get the best possible results. This includes understanding the right timing for each exercise and learning 6 reliable tweaks to optimize effectiveness. Precision in both timing and adjustments is key to success here.

Joint Progressions to Reach Deeper Restrictions

You’ll work with 3 joint progressions that help you address deeper restriction levels. By mastering these, you’ll simplify even the most complex conditions.

Targeting Areas With Changing 2 Key Joints

You’ll see how changing just 2 specific joints in the body while moving can precisely target areas that need attention. This gives you a way to zero in on issues with high accuracy.

Unlocking Overlooked Concepts

By the end of the course, you’ll understand key concepts about pain and healing that missed in your even your most prestigious clinical programs, fellowship programs & seminars. These insights are truly how the body is constantly trying to heal. You’ll start seeing better results—and faster—than ever before. In fact, within the first week, you’ll experience more “ah-ha” moments with your patients than you have in the past year.

Expanding the 7-Step Routine

In Level 2, the focus shifts to applying the 7-Step Routine to the remaining 5 of the 7 key body positions. This level serves two main purposes: helping individuals with limited mobility, like infants, toddlers, or frail seniors, and facilitating recovery in positions where gravity plays a lesser role—think lying on your back after a back injury. It also enhances performance for athletic or high-functioning individuals.

You’ll be working with the same motions you learned in Level 1 (The FAB 6 and Super 6), but now applied to these additional body positions. The lessons take you through each position step by step.

Beyond that, Level 2 introduces new concepts like applying TMR to plyometric or athletic movements, using transitions between positions as part of treatment, and even developing ambidextrous abilities for functional or sports-related tasks.

By the end of TMR Level 2, you’ll have a complete understanding of how all motions can be applied to help the body heal. You’ll also see how the Power of the 4 Opposites gives you the full range of solutions for any situation.

The Advanced Layer

Is Level 3 essential for doing great work?

No, it’s not something you'll use often—maybe 0.03% of the time.

But the principles from this level take your understanding and application of TMR to the highest level. These concepts aren’t available anywhere else.

You’ll learn how to assess every joint from a 360-degree perspective to uncover its full healing potential. You'll also dive into 3-dimensional trigger point release, focusing on the 3 segments of the body to ensure the pain stays gone. You’ll explore how static sleeping and body positions can help relieve pain with minimal effort, and how applying resistance in specific directions can speed up recovery.

Another key idea is identifying the most restricted position in the 3 body segments and using the most effective motion to release overall tightness. This can turn into a quick, 5-minute treatment that’s incredibly effective. You’ll also learn how to use weight lifting as a treatment tool, particularly for patients with lower-paying insurance, achieving superior results compared to conventional treatments.

One of the most valuable insights in Level 3 is the ACE Card—a method for treating patients in severe pain, the kind that might otherwise seem like it requires surgery. This offers you a new approach to handling those extreme cases.

By the end of Level 3, you’ll have a rare understanding of the body’s overlooked healing mechanisms—elements that have been in plain sight but largely ignored until now.

Extrapolating TMR Into Manual Therapy, Your Current Techniques & Methods and Specific Conditions

This level will expand your understanding if you’ve thought of TMR as just a corrective exercise system using the FAB 6 and Super 6. In Level 4, you’ll learn how to integrate TMR principles with other modalities you already use, or those popular in the field, to amplify their effectiveness significantly and dive deeper in fixing specific conditions. Even if you’re an expert in other techniques, you’ll see how TMR multiplies your results sevenfold with any technique you currently use.

At this stage, you’ll realize that the concepts behind TMR are the foundation of everything we do as clinicians. It’s essentially the Scientific Method for pain relief and performance enhancement, laid out to show you how to use any part of the body—near or far from the pain site—to accelerate healing. This method might feel familiar from your training, but it’s finally being fully shown, as so few have noticed what’s been in plain sight all along.

In this level, you’ll apply the TMR concepts more deeply to specific conditions and techniques.

Examples of What You’ll Learn:

TMR Introduction: How to boost results by applying the 7 Steps of Rehab across all types of treatments.

TMR Spine: Enhance your spine treatments by using prone press-ups (McKenzie Method) and supine flexion (Williams Flexion), while testing the whole body in these two positions.

TMR Neck & Jaw: Improve neck and jaw function through neck protraction and retraction (McKenzie Method), integrating these with other 3D movements for full-body impact.

TMR Shoulder: Use injured side motions and unilateral stances to improve outcomes for shoulder issues (Mulligan Method).

TMR Hip: To enhance hip function (Mulligan Method), apply similar techniques to injured side motions and unilateral stances.

TMR Knee, Foot, Ankle: Get specific when working with these joints to achieve better results.

TMR Arm, Elbow, Wrist, Hand: Learn targeted strategies for treating these areas more effectively.

Our Stand Alone Manual Therapy Process: Discover how spring testing can simplify and streamline complex manual therapy techniques. So easy a kid could do it on their parent.

Once you’ve completed Level 4, you’ll be certified to use TMRc after your name, demonstrating mastery of the Total Motion Release system and its wide-ranging applications.

TMR Fitness

Learn why reviewing each person’s fitness routine is critical for long-term results. You’ll discover how to create a full weight-training routine with a TMR twist that ensures lasting improvements.

TMR Posture

Understand how addressing posture can improve spine pain by up to 50%, even without further treatment. You’ll also find out how neglecting posture can be a key reason pain keeps coming back.

TMR Initial Evaluations

Learn different ways to conduct evaluations—whether you need to speed them up, make them more thorough, or cover more of the body in less time. You’ll also discover how a misunderstanding of movements can lead to patient cancellations.

TMR Core

If core exercises are still part of your routine, we’ll compare the traditional approach to core training with the TMR method and show you how TMR can enhance core treatment.

TMR Stretching

We’ll explore whether stretching really works and when it may actually cause more harm than good. You’ll also participate in a group test to see who gets better results—those who stretch tight muscles or those who work the opposite extremity.

TMR Massage

Learn how to scan the entire body during a massage, finding both “yummy” (good) and “yucky” (problematic) areas. You’ll flip the traditional massage approach by using the good areas to address the bad.

TMR Life Skills as Treatment

Use daily activities, like transitioning from kneeling to standing, as exercises to help patients fix themselves. This is especially helpful for those with repetitive daily motions.

TMR 3D Combos

Get the entire body moving at once for faster healing. We’ll combine all the bad motions and then treat them with all the good motions in all three body areas.

TMR 7 Steps Home Program

Learn how to answer any patient question using the 7 Steps to Fixing Self document. This one-page guide simplifies your treatment plan, reducing stress and confusion for both you and the patient.

TMR Power Motions

Practice body resistance exercises by pushing on specific parts of the extremities and trunk to trigger faster changes.

TMR Positioning

Explore full-body passive positions that improve results without effort—ideal for patients who can’t perform active movements.

TMR Foam Rolling

Bring a foam roller and learn how to roll out muscle knots the TMR way. You’ll see motion and muscle tenderness improve by focusing on what feels good.

TMR Injury Training

Learn techniques to rapidly improve sports injuries, getting athletes back into action faster than expected.

TMR Ambidextrous

Practice activities that develop ambidexterity in sports, writing, and other tasks. It’s a great way to improve precision and performance on both sides of the body.

TMR Yoga

Take the 26 Bikram yoga poses and apply TMR principles to them. You’ll also learn how to adapt these techniques to any yoga pose for improved results.

TMR Instruments

Discover how TMR integrates with instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization. You’ll see how "scraping" one part of the body can improve mobility in another—like using a hamstring to fix a bicep issue.

The TMR Master Certification offers an advanced level of training that surpasses even the most prestigious seminars and clinical fellowships—at a fraction of the cost. It includes TMR Levels 1-6, plus bonus material in TMR Level 7. After completion you can use the initial TMRmc after your name.

TMR Advanced 7 Steps & Daily Note

This advanced session goes deeper into the 7 Steps and Daily Note, with detailed demonstrations and hands-on practice to refine your understanding and application of these core techniques.

TMR Vertigo

Learn how to apply TMR techniques to treat vertigo through demonstrations and hands-on practice.

TMR Flow

Experience and practice TMR Flow, a method similar to self-administered unwinding that promotes natural body movement.

TMR Trigger Points

Understand how TMR works with trigger points through practical demonstrations and sessions focused on effective application.

TMR Gait

Explore how TMR improves gait through hands-on practice and demonstrations, showing how these techniques can enhance walking patterns.

TMR Ace Card Advanced

Learn a method for treating patients in severe pain, including cases that might typically require surgery. This approach gives you new options for handling extreme conditions.

TMR Weight Training Treatment Protocol Expanded

A practical demonstration of how to use TMR weight training as a treatment protocol, especially for patients with low-paying insurance.

TMR 1-to-Many Online

Learn how to use TMR in an online group setting. This session covers how to teach your own TMR class, either as a way to generate additional income or to attract more clients to your practice.