Students & Practitioners ♥️ Prohealthsys

“Thank you for being willing to run the course (and fill it!). We were all saying over the last week on the [college] group chat that we were very happy we signed up and all of the good things we had heard about you and your courses were true. We appreciated the extremely efficient use you made of the time, your style of succinct review, and the way you were able to pull out key points for differential diagnosis. It was the perfect use of our time. All four of us have been very focused on the written after a significant portion of the last cohort did not achieve the needed 70%.”

“I really appreciate the videos on exams, manipulations, X-rays, and cadaver anatomy, as well as having access to the books. Hithera has been a very helpful learning resource.”

“Dr. Nik’s assessment course was a great refresher, reminder, and inspiration to continue to assess patients.”

Dear Dr Nik,

I wanted to say a heartfelt thanks for all the books that I received a few years ago and also the help I got from all the videos on prohealthsys which made a huge difference in helping me to excel in my course. Needless to say the practical exams here -the Final Clinical Competency exams were very tough.

In any case I passed the whole thing including my dissertation which I got a distinction in so thanks very much again. I think I managed to get all my year to buy  “Orthopaedic Conditions” and indeed this has filtered down to the lower years. The name “Vizniak” is very known at my University amongst students and lecturers!

“A must for anyone who does sports therapy/message.”

“Dr. Nik provides a great balance of practical knowledge, clear communication, and fun/humour in his courses. I’d highly recommend any and all of his courses/workshops.”

“The best course I’ve taken in 20 years. Able to understand and incorporate into practice with a KNOWLEDGEABLE UNDERSTANDING.”

” It just hit me.. that we are not having anatomy classes anymore… I wish I could turn back time! It was the most fun class I had and I want to thank you for that. You made this crazy first year seem a breeze :)”

“Overall an excellent course, best one I have taken!”

Hello Dr. Nik,

I think it should be the other way around, I should be thanking you for an amazing seminar! It was the best experience of my life outside of my children. Thank you for making such an impact in my life. I’m eternally grateful!

“For me it is a game changer as it is such a pleasure to treat without so much effort on my fingers and body. Love it!”

“A few lecturers enquired as to why so many students were carrying around the ProHealth Books (especially because they’re not on our required reading lists) and we informed them that they should be!! I could say with certainty that if I would be to recommend 1 book to incoming first year students it would be your Physical Assessment text, it would have made the last 3 years a lot easier!”

” Honestly in all my years of being taught and being in a classroom environment your class felt like the first class I was 110% awake and fully inspired .It was quite an experience. I haven’t always excelled in educational institutes but I honestly feel like if I’d been taught the way you did then I would have. I was completely engaged and actually quite shocked that you were able to make a lesson so fun and inspiring, I don’t think I’ve ever left a class so happy and ready to take on the world. Most teachers do just read off the powerpoint, they speak in the same tone, every now and then they may crack a joke, and a lot of teachers at the College will be like “Guys I know this is a lot but we just have to get through this information” then for the next hour they just read these words out. Your listening so hard but its like the information isn’t going in, so then I have to go home and go on You Tube to watch videos and see pictures and to almost teach myself this material. Your class turned everything upside down, and was just the best! Thank you for waking me up and making me realize learning can be fun and that its okay to think outside of the box and to not always go with what we are taught.”

“Great review and stimulation of new learning! Course is necessary for our profession to keep moving forward with trained practitioners.”

“One of the best courses I’ve taken since I started 22 years ago. I feel more confident as a therapist and feel I will last longer in the profession.”

“I had the pleasure of attending your class yesterday and I wanted to thank you again. I have not experienced that type of learning environment in a VERY long time. Your love for anatomy and teaching was clear and contagious; the 3 hrs felt more like 30 minutes.”

“You are my first mentor since I started my medical studies. You have fostered my confidence since the very beginning of this program. I can now comfortably stand up in front of others and say “I am here and this is who I am.” This is no small feat and I am not the only one at this school whom who you have helped in this way. It’s people like you who allow for people like me – especially women! – to have the confidence make something – anything! – of themselves. I firmly believe that my dreams would not so big had you not pushed me to think big – and then go out do even bigger things.”

“Hello Dr. Nik, I think it should be the other way around, I should be thanking you for an amazing seminar! It was the best experience of my life outside of my children. Thank you for making such an impact in my life. I’m eternally grateful!”

“Well worth the time and money – a “game changer” for my practice. Loved all the anatomy, physiology, and assessment information as well as the techniques.”

“I have been a in practice for 15 years.. I was pleased to learn quite a few new clinical pearls. I liked how interactive the class was. Dr Vizniak was willing to field questions and expand on them as it pertained to the course material. What I liked in particular was how he engaged the attendees, making us think through the conditions or tests. I found this not only useful but practical since the reality is when there is a patient in front of you, you have to go through a very similar process: what, why, how etc? I look forward to attending more modules in the future.”

Hi Dr. Nik,

I was having a hard time learning the origin, insertion of muscles so one day I talked you about this problem and you told me to take the manual muscle book and hide the origin, insertion and write it on the piece of paper by looking at the muscle itself, so I did it and just by doing it once I felt very confident about it. In term 1 as well, I was trying every way to do it, by drawing muscles, looking at the pictures and what not but I was barely passing the tests, but with this way I got 91% on my test. – Thank you Dr Nik.

“Dr. Vizniak, is one of a kind. Honestly, one of the best teachers that I have encountered in all of my academics. I was so impressed with his research into how students best learn and how he implements this and remodels his teaching accordingly. If only all teachers would do this. His changes mirrored the suggestions that I had found in my research of how to best learn, which was synchronistic and beneficial for me. I learned more from this course than any other anatomy program. He made it enjoyable, fun, engaging and most of all easy to learn and retain things. His ability to read his audience and monitor the pace accordingly is also impressive. He knew when we needed a break, he presented information in a fascinating way (not slides that were overloaded with info), he was always prepared and on time. He truly inspired me to want to learn more, be better and do better. He is literally the school’s greatest asset! He knows that cramming information down our throats doesn’t foster life long learning. If only the other teachers could learn from him on how to structure their classes and how to present information properly. I truly appreciated the way he conducts his exams as well. It was a true test of how well you knew everything, not just on how well you could memorize. I will miss having him next semester and look forward to having him again in the fall. I encourage the school to have him influence the way the other classes are taught if you want to improve retention rates and student learning and integration. I have the utmost respect for and appreciation for a teacher that is continually remodelling their teaching to aid the students. That is true dedication right there. Most teachers just get into a groove of teaching the same way with the same slides, which doesn’t create for an ideal learning environment. I am so glad that he was part of my first semester learning experience.”

“Dr. Nik is a really good instructor, good volume, enthusiasm, entertaining, knowledgeable. Prepared with many ways of teaching”

“The Muscle Manual is the most useful of any of Travell’s Trigger Point Manual, Kendell’s MuscleTesting, Musculino’s Muscle System, Biel’s Trail Guide to the Body, and any Anatomy & Physiology text, all wrapped up in one parcel.”

“I recently passed the board exams on my first try and I can honestly say that the best thing I did to prepare was when I attended the Prohealthsys board prep intensives. The time was managed in an incredibly efficient manner and in just 3 days we covered A&P Review, Neuro review, Orthopaedic Pathologies, General Pathologies, study skills, general tips for standardized testing, mock PBA walkthroughs that helped us understand what the format and timing would feel like in real life, and so much more. I found more real value in those 3 days than in some of the classes I spent an entire semester taking in massage school, and the intensives were certainly more productive than studying on my own. The Prohealthsys online material was extremely helpful as I reviewed, as well. Dr. Nik is an expert in his field and his program was worth every single penny.”

“Dr. Nik is in my opinion the single greatest asset Boucher Institute has. His knowledge and teaching abilities far surpass anyone I have encountered in academia before. Boucher should do whatever possible to keep Dr. Nik on staff teaching as many classes as possible.”

“I recently arrived at the physical medicine chapter in board exam study manual and begrudgingly (only due to the fact that it is by far the largest chapter) began to study it. But then, as I made my through it, I realized it was the quickest and easiest chapter of all…barely having to highlight or make notes on a single topic. I know this stuff cold…and that’s because of You! Your passion and abilities as a teacher are truly gifts to us all…as students, doctors and the patients we treat – Thanks for being an amazing teacher!”

I took your clinical board review last year to prepare for the February 2025 exam. I found it incredibly helpful, (thank you for that) and was able to pass successfully on my first try.

“The Physical Assessment book is great for anyone who is serious about physical examinations and wants to learn the how and the whys rather than just going through the process. The level of detail and description is amazing especially for the joint exams. We used it to great effect in an OSCE training course this weekend for Emergency Medicine Physicians and were able to untangle some of the wilder joint examinations that the candidates were performing.“

The material and resources available are amazing!

“Dr. Vizniak is really the sort of health-care professional we should all aspire to be. Not only are his books the perfect tool for any practitioner no matter where they are on their professional journey, he is willing to go above and beyond to help even total strangers succeed. Dr. Vizniak invited me into his recording clinic and dedicated his time to put me through a “boot-camp” to help build my skills and confidence so I could go into my board exam and succeed!”

“I just wanted to say that some of our classes have been so powerful. Your ability to humanize conditions and convey the true meaning of”patient centered care” has been potent on a deep level… having a deeper understanding and empathy was something that I felt was lacking across the board and it gives me a lot of hope that there will be doctors out there that “get it” – thank you.”