Mulligan's Professional Courses

Brian Mulligan is the creator of the Mobilisation With Movement" (MWM) as we know it today. MWM examination and treatment techniques integrate manual therapy, functional exercise, and cognitive therapy elements. 

These two-day practical workshops provide clinical reasoning strategies and detailed hands-on instruction on unique examination and treatment techniques.

MWM is one of the most popular approaches physiotherapists use to treat neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Mark has presented Mulligan courses for over 30 years and assisted Brian worldwide on numerous occasions. The approach is easy to learn and integrate into existing examination and treatment models. There is a large body of research validating the concept.

Brian's textbook is now in the 7th edition. There are two comprehensive books by eminent physiotherapy researchers detailing the theory, principles, concepts, and relevant research relating to the evidence-based practice of MWM (Vicenzino et al 2011, Hing et al 2020). 

Course Goals

• • To present the principles of the Mulligan Concept
• • To demonstrate clinical applications of these principles
• • To explain the clinical reasoning process of the Mulligan Concept
• • To develop and refine manual skills
• • To offer theoretical models to explain the clinical results achieved
• • To challenge some ways that established conceptual models of pathology and biomechanics are used to justify and determine treatment approaches
• • To demonstrate how MWM principles can be integrated into established treatment regimes
• • To outline current research & publications related to the Mulligan concept
• • To present information in an open non-threatening collegial dialogue
• • To provide participants with a stimulating learning experience.

Mark Oliver presents the Mulligan Upper and Lower Quadrant courses in Perth and also his own courses "SIJ & Pelvis" and "TMJ & Orofacial Pain" in which assessment and treatment methods are based upon Mulligan concepts.
Mark is an internationally recognised clinical educator with 30 years of clinical experience and 25 years of teaching experience. He was a lecturer on the Graduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy and Graduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy courses at Curtin University has presented more than 200 clinical workshops and lectures, is a keynote speaker at conferences, and has written chapters in textbooks and published in scientific journals. Mark is Australia’s most experienced Mulligan Concept teacher and practitioner.