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Functional Anatomy Seminars offers high-quality seminars to manual-medicine practitioners, providing guidance in assessment, diagnosis, treatment & rehabilitation.
05/11/2025
🚨LAST CHANCE 🚨
KINSTRETCH® LEVEL II
Load it. Own it.
November 8–9, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST (adjust for your time zone)
Eligibility: Kinstretch® Level I required
Level II takes your joint-focused coaching and layers load, density, and intent so capacity becomes strength your athletes can use. It’s the bridge from tissue-specific work to serious GPP, ready for small-group delivery.
What you’ll gain:
• Loaded Kinstretch: implement external load, tempo, and isometric dosage without losing joint specificity.
• GPP, solved: a clean, repeatable group format that builds resilient movers for any sport or training style.
• Coaching clarity: sharper constraints, cleaner cue stacks, consistent outcomes across athletes.
• Expanded library: new Level II techniques + sport-driven applications to plug into your sessions.
Level up your coaching. Secure your Level II spot.
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04/11/2025
🧠FRS Creator
Relying solely on patterned exercises can restrict joint health instead of enhancing it. Prioritizing joint mobility, resilience, and control is essential for both health and optimal function. To enhance overall performance, focus on joint health as a foundation of your training, not as an afterthought.
Learn more @ FunctionalAnatomySeminars.com
03/11/2025
FRA® CERTIFICATION SEMINAR
📝 Take the guesswork out of assessment.�FRA® provides a systematic approach to prioritizing clinical and training decisions—so you can understand exactly where your client falls on the Functional Range Systems flowchart, and how to guide them forward.
🔍 What You’ll Learn:
• FRA® Measurement Procedures�Master accurate, repeatable methods to assess joint function and movement capacity.
• Bias-Free Assessment�Implement strategies to reduce confirmation bias and increase objectivity.
• Neurophysiology & Dynamic Systems Theory�Understand the science behind movement control and its implications for assessment.
• Advanced Programming�Better understand how to program FRC® interventions to prioritize and make lasting change.
📍Don’t miss your chance to elevate your assessment game.
Register now. Spots are limited. Must be FR Release or FRCms certified to attend.
31/10/2025
FR & Kinstretch Provider, FRSC & FRAs
📍Tucson, AZ
All we have/need is joint range and biological principles.
If you understand how joints move and how to stimulate the systems of the body, you can create exercises as needed.
My client is an avid cyclist that when we met would get excruciating low back and hip pain after long hard rides.
Sometimes leaving her in pain for a week or more.
Assessment found that her pelvis/hips were lacking movement and control that is necessary for cycling.
Last week she raced 10miles up Mt. Graham, one of the most challenging cycling climbs in the country, averaging 6% and peaking at about 11% grade.
In 10miles she gained 3,500 ft of elevation.
The next day she had some moderate muscle sorenes and deadlifted a 3 rep PR.
This is why we prioritize continual assessment and joint centric training.
In this clip my client is demonstrating a way that we load and articulate her posterior hip/pelvis.
She is eccentrically controlling her bottom him as the band pulls her top hip forward.
This loads the SI region of her bottom hip.
30/10/2025
FRSC & FRAs .in.motion
📍Westminster, CA
Spinal flexion is a prerequisite for all other spinal movement.
One of my friends sent me a video yesterday with an influencer doing lots of fancy “spinal mobility work.” Some of it was legit. None of it was appropriate for your average human with an untrained spine.
You have to assess a spine before you can determine what it needs. Flexion creates space in the posterior capsules, but adding external load before training the connective tissues to manage that load isn’t a great idea. Isometrics help stiffen those tissues and give muscles something to pull on.
You can definitely set up a spinal flexion PAILs and RAILs on your own, but it’s nice to have some external feedback. Here we’re using this setup to prime the joints for some more dynamic training. This client has had several disc surgeries, and we’ve come a VERY long way in his ability to move his spine!
29/10/2025
KINSTRETCH® LEVEL II
Load it. Own it.
November 8–9, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST (adjust for your time zone)
Eligibility: Kinstretch® Level I required
Level II takes your joint-focused coaching and layers load, density, and intent so capacity becomes strength your athletes can use. It’s the bridge from tissue-specific work to serious GPP, ready for small-group delivery.
What you’ll gain:
• Loaded Kinstretch: implement external load, tempo, and isometric dosage without losing joint specificity.
• GPP, solved: a clean, repeatable group format that builds resilient movers for any sport or training style.
• Coaching clarity: sharper constraints, cleaner cue stacks, consistent outcomes across athletes.
• Expanded library: new Level II techniques + sport-driven applications to plug into your sessions.
Level up your coaching. Secure your Level II spot.
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29/10/2025
Kinstretch Provider & FRSC
📍Saratoga Springs, NY
(Please ignore my shear force typo 😅) Here are some buzz words you might encounter on the internet regarding deadlifts. Often they are coming from people regarded as experts in their field. For a little clarity, I’d like to offer some nuance that isn’t typically included in those folks arguments.
Exercises are not good or bad. In fact, your nervous system doesn’t even know what a fu***ng exercise is. Exercises, like all movement, place various demands on your joints and connective tissue. If those demands exceed what those parts can handle, problems arise. That could be deadlifting, or just bending down to tie your shoe. I work with people who have had problems doing both. I personally have had problems doing both😅. The only difference is that no one is saying tying your shoes is dangerous.
I deadlifted in my late teens and 20’s a lot, and got strong at deadlifting. This continued in my 30’s, except that although my deadlift numbers went up, I also seemed to tweak my back deadlifting (sometimes also just tying my shoe 😅😭😭). I deadlift in my 40’s now and it feels great. I don’t tweak my back deadlifting or tying my shoe now.
The only thing that changed is that I started training my joints specifically. I used hard training to target deficits at the joint level, and improved those specific capacities that were lacking. Just like strength training, except focused on very specific joints and tissue. That’s it. I work with people regularly who are now deadlifting again happily. It’s not the exercise that’s the problem, and you don’t need more of that exercise to fix the problem. You need specific training to target what is missing. It’s not magic. It’s hard training. You can make any exercise sustainable, at any age.
FR & Kinstretch Provider, FRSC & FRAs
📍Tucson, Arizona
Training a runner.
Training athletes for their sport is about getting them able to feel and interact with their bodies in a way that allows them to better access contextually relevant ranges of motion and behaviors.
It's more than just getting stronger.
It's not about mimicking the sport.
It's about accessing and changing biological/neurological limitations.
This is internal training.
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27/10/2025
“You can’t do random exercises and expect joint specific adaptations.
Prerequisites start at the joint level. These have specific capacities that can and need to be trained for better physical health and resilience.”
- FRS Instructor
Functional Range Conditioning Certification
📍Costa Mesa, CA - Day 2️⃣
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The owner and creator Functional Anatomy Seminars is Dr. Andreo Spina. Functional Anatomy Seminars (FAS) offers high-quality seminars to manual-medicine practitioners, providing guidance in assessment, diagnosis, treatment & rehabilitation. Functional Anatomy Seminars is dedicated to improving the skill set of manual practitioners including Chiropractors, Physiotherapists, Massage Therapists, Athletic Therapists, Osteopath’s, Acupuncturists, and Physical Medicine doctors; as well as strength and conditioning specialists and fitness instructors.
Functional Anatomy Seminars offers certification courses for Functional Range Release (F.R.)®, Functional Range Conditioning (FRC)®, Functional Range Assessment (FRA)™ and Kinstretch®. FAS also offers an FRC® 8 week Online Training Program as well as an FRA Assessment with Review Option.
Functional Range Release technique or FR® Release Certification Seminars (UPPER LIMB, LOWER LIMB, & SPINE)
Functional Range Release technique or FR® Release is an advanced and comprehensive system of soft tissue assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation used by some of the most highly regarded manual therapists around the world. One of the most important factors separating FR® certifications from other manual seminars is its focus on communicating the scientific basis behind the techniques. A large component of the certification seminars is dedicated to teaching/introducing the participant to the supporting literature so that they can make sound clinical decisions and provide the best manual treatments available.
Functional Range Conditioning (FRC)® certification seminars:
Developed by world-renowned musculoskeletal expert Dr. Andreo Spina, Functional Range Conditioning® is a comprehensive joint training system based in scientific principals and research. There are 3 main goals when training using FRC® system and all are closely interrelated, and acquired simultaneously; Mobility Development, Joint Strength, and Body Control.
Functional Range Assessment (FRA)™ certification seminars:
Functional Range Assessment (FRA)™ will build on the systematic concepts of the FR and FRC systems, this time focusing on how to quantify a client’s basic movement capacity. In doing so, it will allow you to better prioritize your management decisions as it provides you with a better understanding of the patient/client needs and where they fit within the spectrum of the Functional Anatomy Systems.
Kinstretch® certification seminars:
Kinstretch®is a movement enhancement system founded by Dr. Andrea Spina to develop maximum body control while simultaneously building flexibility and usable ranges of motion. Kinstretch uses FRC principles to enhance human optimization and body control in a group setting.
FRC® 8 Week Online Training Program.
We match you up with the World’s best coaches for Functional Range Conditioning (FRC®) to assess your present mobility level and then provide personalized, detailed programming based on those results and what you would like to accomplish. Your 8 week session will begin with our comprehensive Functional Range Assessment (FRA®) which you submit via video. The FRA® will be utilized to identify problem areas as they relate to functional movement and mobility which your coach will then use to program appropriately. The video will also be used as a base-line so we can gauge your progress throughout your training.
FRA® Assessment with Review Option
This option is where you work remotely with an FRA/FRC Master Instructor who will review your Functional Range Assessment (FRA)® and discuss the results via Skype. You can then share the report with your local FRCms or train on your own. If you choose to enrol in the Full Coaching package after the assessment, we will apply a credit of $300 towards your account.
