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October 2024
Craig Knowles – KM Technique – Lower Extremities
CLASS FULL Join the Wait List Description Kinetic Musculorehab technique is a blend of sports massage and medical massage that uses range of motion to treat common everyday dysfunctions. The basis of KM Technique is to learn to treat muscles in their plane of action. This course teaches how to merge passive range of motion with other massage techniques to increase their function and to relieve pain. KM Technique is also used to increase range of motion, break up adhesion…
Find out more »Carrie Taylor – Post Operative Care: Providing Physical Therapy Support / Myofascial Treatment of Scar Tissue
With the evolving health care system in this country, massage therapists are being called upon more than ever to assist and support patients in post operative settings as early as possible. This workshop takes the practitioner through the acute, subacute, and chronic phases of post operative clinical cases, with detailed approaches and techniques best suited to effectively handling surgical recovery outcomes. Using all the tools in a massage therapist’s arsenal, while staying within the scope of practice, can seem an…
Find out more »Mayumi Hawthorne – Contrast Therapy (Using Hot/Cold Stones)
CLASS FULL This 12 hours hands-on course will discuss a soft tissue technique using Contrast Therapy massage using Hot and Cold stones. A successful Contrast Therapy Massage depends on a clear understanding of the applications and bodily response to heat and cold applications of water using a variety of stones. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: Describe the benefits and contraindications of heat and cold applications using Basalt stones Proper protocol for a full-body Contrast Therapy…
Find out more »November 2024
Bradford Donnaud – Creative Ensemble Massage
Bradford Donnaud - Creative Ensemble Massage Description Creativity is a learned behavior. Learning to be more creative in your massage will ensure that your work stays fresh and never boring. This course is designed to unleash your creative massage potential. We learn many modalities over our careers as Massage Therapists. We then take parts of those modalities and choose what to incorporate into our work, this is a creative process. Through group exercises and directed creative play, you will discover…
Find out more »Carrie Taylor – Migraine, TMJ disorder & Cervical Tension / Whiplash, Cervical Disc Herniations & Related Disorders
Carrie Taylor - Migraine, TMJ disorder & Cervical Tension / Whiplash, Cervical Disc Herniations, & Related Disorders Course Description Migraine, TMJ Disorder, & Cervical Tension Migraines can strike without warning, leaving the victim debilitated, and suffering from a "migraine hangover" that may last several days. Many patients, also have TMJ Dysfunction and cervical tension, two of the many contributing factors to the severity and duration of the headache. In this advanced workshop, you will learn the intimate dynamic between these…
Find out more »Mayumi Hawthorne – Heated Herbal Ball Massage
Mayumi Hawthorne - Heated Herbal Ball Massage Course Description This 12 hours hands-on course will discuss and demonstrate manipulation of soft tissue techniques using heat application of hydrotherapy with compressed balls filled with herbs to relieve pain from sore, hypertonic muscles, detoxification of waste from the muscles, and respiratory issues; Reinvigorate the body, mind, and spirit and relaxation as they are used in massage today. A successful heated herbal ball massage depends on understanding hydrotherapy using heat application and the…
Find out more »December 2024
Carrie Taylor – Neurology Plexus
CLASS CANCELLED Day 1: Neurology Cervical Plexus This Neurology hands-on class will be anatomy, physiology and palpation based, with assessment & treatment of upper body nerves and their possible entrapment sites. The cervical and brachial plexi will be covered, with a focus on which muscles and structures each nerve supplies, and what dysfunctions may arise if these nerves become compressed or compromised. In addition, relevant assessment strategies followed by possible myofascial and osseous treatment options for these pathologies will be…
Find out more »Arnold Askew – Understanding & Transforming Chronic Pain
CLASS CANCELLED Description Would you like your practice to be more 'medical' based? Would you like your practice to help transform people's lives? Would you like your practice to be easier on your body and more mentally stimulating? Develop these results when you take Understanding and Transforming Chronic Pain. Some people get a massage because it "feels good". Others come to "feel better". Still others come because they want to be better. They want to improve. They want to get…
Find out more »February 2025
Carrie Taylor – Myofascial Assessment & Treatment of the Abdomen, Ribcage and Pelvis & How to Give a Full Body Myofascial Session
CLASS CANCELLED Course Description Day 1: Myofascial Assessment and Treatment of the Abdomen, Ribcage, and Pelvis This course will remove any discomfort felt by therapists when working on the Abdomen, Ribcage & Pelvis, by combining in depth assessment approaches with effective myofascial release techniques. Therapists will spend time doing direct techniques, such as release of the abdominal/peritoneal fascia, and iliac/inguinal fascia, as well as indirect techniques, such as release of groin/pubic fascias. Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) will be employed, along…
Find out more »Lee Anna Singleton – Trigger Points: Upper Extremities
CLASS CANCELLED Description In this course we will learn how to access some of the trigger points in the head, face, neck, arms, wrists, hands, shoulders and back. We will learn how to treat some of the most common trigger points that contribute to headaches, neck pain, frozen shoulder, elbow pain, hand/wrist pain, and upper, middle and lower back pain. In doing so we will help relieve tension and pain, increase range of motion, as well as increase your client’s…
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