Continuing Education

Transform Evidence into Practice. Elevate Your Clinical Outcomes.

Welcome to continuing education designed by a clinician, for clinicians. Offered through Hoyle Health Services, LLC, Oogie Training, based in Storrs, Connecticut, brings your clinicians education that bridge the gap between rigorous clinical evidence, real-world hands-on application and the needs of your business.

Instructor David A. Hoyle, DPT, MA, OCS, MTC, COHP, CEAS, brings 40 years of clinical and teaching expertise to the podium. Having instructed extensively at both the entry-level university level and across hundreds of national continuing education courses, David is recognized for his unique ability to help clinicians develop a system of practice that is master-level, evidence-based person centered with goal of maximizing outcomes, patient loyalty, and business success.

A Deep, Eclectic Clinical Foundation

David’s clinical philosophy has been shaped by an elite, eclectic background in manual therapy and movement science:

• Academic Roots: BS in Allied Health (Physical Therapy) from the University of Connecticut, a Master’s degree in Education, Sports, Leisure, and Exercise Science from UCONN, and a Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) from Regis University.

• Manual Therapy Mastery: Earned his Manual Therapy Certification (MTC) through the University of St. Augustine during the era of Stanley Paris's direct teaching and testing. His eclectic hands-on background spans the philosophies of this New Zealand approach as well as Mulligan, Cyriax, and Osteopathic Manual Therapy.

· Functional Movement & Exercise: Refined his biomechanical approach working alongside David Tiberio, pioneer of foot and lower extremity biomechanics as relates to musculoskeletal pathology, closed kinetic chain function, Dean and co-founder of the Gray Institute for Functional Transformation (GIFT) program, and co-creator of the landmark course, “When the foot hits the ground everything changes”.

• Life Long Learning: David challenged conventional concepts early on his career constantly reworking clinical practice models with the latest evidence. David has been heard countless times repeating his two mantras about the need for lifelong learning:

  • “One of the biggest problems historically with the professional of physical therapy is that the therapy provided often has more to do with the historical training of the therapist, including continuing education, than it has to do with the patient’s unique problem and the patient themselves. This is provider centered care when the goal should be patient centered care.”

  • “When it comes to musculoskeletal care most of what I learned in school is wrong most of the time, although some of what I learned in school is right some of the time.”

David’s career started when there was a lack of significant evidence for the practice of physical therapy and what was available was hard to obtain. Throughout his career David has learned to use the growing tools to push evidence to him, to help him synthesize research into answer real world patient problems, and has an innate ability to help clinicians understand new and complex concepts.The Modern Frontier: A Person-Centered System Approach based on Evidence

While deeply rooted in manual therapy and precise exercise prescription—ranging from motor control to eccentric overload—David's recent publications, research, and interest focus heavily on the intersection of physical and mental recovery.

His courses place a heavy emphasis on identifying and mitigating psychosocial barriers to recovery and establishing a powerful therapeutic alliance with patients. You won't just learn how to treat an impairment; you will learn how to guide a person through evaluation, diagnosis, and long-term recovery.

Why learn with Hoyle Health Services? You will leave these courses with an expanded movement vocabulary, sharper manual skills, and a proven psychological framework to handle complex, chronic, or treatment-resistant cases.

Outcomes are more than getting patients better. Bringing Business Practices into Clinical Practice. We all know to be successful helping patients; we need a successful business. David has run practices and understands what it takes. David wants to understand your business and to be able to message through clinical skill development the why behind the needed business practices. Whether it is addressing dropouts, charge methodology, visit velocity or frequency, all these are important for outcomes and business success and we need to talk about them.