ConnectTherapy™ Grand Rounds: Progressing Drivers to High Load Lifting

Ninety minutes with LJ and Mark Penner’s own clinical case.

Grand Rounds gives you access to LJ and her clinical expertise from anywhere in the world — from the comfort of your own space. In this special edition, LJ works through the key features of progressing a patient’s Driver Profile to high load lifting, following the ConnectTherapy™ journey of Synergy Physio + Pilates physiotherapist Mark Penner — his own journey training his Drivers to lift heavy in the gym.

90‑minute recorded session
Watch anytime, from anywhere

Prerequisite: Grand Rounds assumes you’ve completed at minimum the Virtual ConnectTherapy™ & the Thorax course.

ConnectTherapy Grand Rounds with Dr. LJ Lee

What you’ll see

Two cases, ninety minutes

This is your chance to see the models where it matters most — in the clinic, with patients, being reasoned through in real time rather than taught in the abstract.

The success story

Mark presents his own journey — from first exposure to ConnectTherapy™ & the Thoracic Ring Approach™ as a young athlete and trainer, to becoming a physiotherapist training his own Driver Profile for heavy lifting. In his words: “I’m lifting heavier than before and I’m the strongest I’ve ever been in my life. It’s wild when your weakest link is actually your strength, not your dysfunction.”

The patient case study

Grounded in LJ’s Exercise Prescription framework for Thoracic Ring & Foot/Ankle CoDrivers, Mark and LJ work through how these principles apply in the gym with your patients — specific tips and insights on getting someone to Phase 3 training, and the optimal strategies that make lifting above 80% of 1RM a Reset for the Drivers.

Your instructor

Dr. Linda-Joy (LJ) Lee

Physiotherapist · Researcher · Founder, LJ Lee Institute for Physiotherapy & Movement

LJ is known internationally for her expertise in the thorax. For more than two decades, her clinical practice and research have focused on this region specifically — the biomechanics, the motor control, the pain science, and the mechanisms connecting it to the rest of the body.

That work produced ConnectTherapy™ and the Thoracic Ring Approach™ — models built to answer the questions that kept coming up in her own clinic, and in the clinics of the physiotherapists she teaches.

Grand Rounds is where you watch her apply them to cases she hasn’t rehearsed — reasoning through another clinician’s patient, out loud.

Your presenter

Mark Penner

Where this came from

Built from what already worked

Grand Rounds grew out of the Refresher course for Series Grads, where patient cases were discussed virtually. Participants kept reporting the same thing: having LJ’s input on a real case moved their clinical practice in a way that more teaching didn’t.

It blows my mind that LJ knew what I was missing with my patients, just from hearing my patient stories. I have applied her suggestions with great success.

Jaquie Goldsack · Australia

ConnectTherapy™ Grand Rounds: Progressing Drivers to High Load Lifting

$55 CAD · 90‑minute recorded session

What’s included

Your place in the live 90‑minute session
The full recording afterwards — whether you make it live or not
The full 90‑minute recorded session
Two patient cases presented by soon‑to‑be Certified Practitioners
LJ’s clinical reasoning and input, worked through in real time
Access to the recorded replay for 12 months post‑event
Watch at your own pace, from anywhere in the world

You’ll be taken straight to secure checkout.

Prerequisite: minimum the Virtual ConnectTherapy™ & the Thorax course.

Questions? Email the registrar.

Ninety minutes. Two patients. One expert thinking out loud.

Courses teach you the model. Grand Rounds shows you what it looks like when the case doesn’t go to plan — and how LJ reasons through it anyway.