OFM Foundations
Your Patient Isn’t Improving.
What Are You Missing?
Learn to work through unresolved cases with a clearer clinical framework. Prioritize the findings, challenge the explanation, and build a plan you can reassess.
With Dr. Sean Altman, PT, DPT
$349introductory price
Includes both Foundations courses.
Case-based learning
Practical clinical worksheets
Foundations Certificate upon successful completion
The clinical skill
A finding is only part of the story.
An imaging finding may explain local pain while leaving weakness, functional limitation or recovery unresolved. Learn to decide what fits, what remains uncertain and which question could change the plan.
Judge whether the diagnosis sufficiently explains the defined problem.
Distinguish the pain site, problem site and perpetuating environment.
Use the Four Lenses selectively, when they could change the decision.
Assign provisional roles with evidence and confidence.
Organize supporting and conflicting evidence into a clinical map.
Choose an action and define how you will reassess it.
Why it matters
When your patient isn’t improving.
When a patient isn’t improving, the cost is measured in missed matches, hard steps and time away from the people and activities they love. Better reasoning is how you help them get back to what matters.
Help them get back to what matters.
Every clinical decision has a human side.
Illustrative scenes, not actual patients or faculty.
Inside Foundations
Understand the framework. Put it to work.
01
Foundations of Orthopedic Functional Medicine
Six lectures on diagnostic sufficiency, the Four Lenses and Six Diagnostic Roles. Move from a list of findings to a concise, revisable clinical map.
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02
The OFM Diagnostic Audit
Define, Explain, Weight, Act and Verify. Ten lectures and an integrated case connect the framework to diagnostic decisions and reassessment.
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Try the reasoning
Make the call.
Then see the reasoning.
The task is not to dismiss a real finding or make it explain everything. Decide what the evidence actually supports.
Fictional educational case · Practice preview
A patient has a shoulder tear on MRI and a separate tingling pattern that changes with neck position. What is best supported?
Draft practice content for Dr. Altman’s review. This does not count toward an assessment or certificate.
From reasoning to a usable tool
Build the map as you learn.
The planned applied coursework connects each decision to a learner-completed field: the problem, evidence, provisional roles, action and verification plan.
- Clinical Priority MapIn development
- Diagnostic Audit WorksheetIn development
- Verification PlanIn development
Your instructor
Dr. Sean Altman, PT, DPT
Developer of OFM · Program Director
“Understand the clinical problem before choosing the tool.”
Meet Dr. Altman →A certificate earned through assessment.
The Foundations Certificate requires both courses and their required assessments, including review where applicable. Purchase or video completion alone does not award a credential.
Full OFM Certification is a separate pathway: Courses 1–11 plus the capstone and required assessments. No accredited CE credit is confirmed.
See the full pathway →Bring more clarity to your next case.
Both courses, the applied coursework and the required assessments are covered by the program price. Access terms and final assessment standards are pending.
Sign upOpens an email to the program; no purchase or automatic enrollment.
Introductory offer
$349$399
One price for the two-course program. Normally $399.
- Course 1 · Foundations of Orthopedic Functional Medicine
- Course 2 · The OFM Diagnostic Audit
- Applied coursework and worksheets
- Foundations Certificate after required assessments
Individual course pricing is not published. No accredited CE credit is confirmed.