Course Title:
Assessment & Treatment of the Most Common
Injuries
Date Offered:
May 15-16, 2010
Times: Saturday (9:00 am - 5:00 pm) Sunday (9:00 am - 4:00
pm)
NCBTMB Approved Continuing Education: 13 Contact Hours
Cost: $350 prior to April 15th; $395
thereafter
Early Registration Deadline:
April 15th, 2010
Who May Attend: This
workshop is for massage therapists who what to increase their
expertise and success rate in helping to heal their clients’ common
chronic injuries. You will
learn how to find the exact source of a client’s pain and effectively
treat the injury. This
workshop will give you the knowledge and understanding to make you a
more effective massage therapist.
What To Bring: Two sets of sheets, one
towel, one pillowcase.
Course Description:
This workshop was designed by Dr. Ben Benjamin to help bodyworkers
assess and treat specific injuries that challenge and frustrate most
therapists. The
workshop provides training in anatomy, assessment tests, treatment
techniques and client home exercises for the most typical injuries
associated with six common complaints: subscapularis tendonitis;
tennis elbow, TP 7 ligament injuries, iliolumbar ligament sprain,
patella tendonitis, and lateral ankle sprain.
How you can benefit:
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Come away with a foundation of assessment tools, including
orthopedic tests to identify or rule out specific soft tissue
injuries
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Learn to distinguish actual injuries from chronic muscle tension
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Acquire a precise and consistent means of evaluation
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Improve your accuracy in identifying and treating injuries,
resulting in more effective treatment of your clients
Course Title: Assessment & Treatment of Shoulder Pain
Date Offered: August 14-15, 2010
Times: Saturday (9:00 am - 5:00 pm) Sunday (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)
NCBTMB Approved Continuing Education: 13 Contact Hours
Cost: $350 prior to July 16th; $395
thereafter
Early Registration Deadline: July 16th, 2010
Who May Attend:
This workshop is for massage therapists who what to increase their
expertise and success rate in helping to heal their clients’ common
chronic injuries. You will
learn how to find the exact source of a client’s pain and
effectively treat the injury.
This workshop will give you the knowledge and understanding
to make you a more effective massage therapist.
What To Bring:
Two sets of sheets, one towel, one pillowcase.
Course Description: This comprehensive workshop will teach
you how to effectively assess and treat the most commonly injured
structures in the shoulder. You’ll learn how to differentiate
muscle, tendon, bursa, joint and ligament injuries, and you’ll
fine-tune your palpation skills and hands-on treatment techniques.
The two-day format provides ample time to develop all the skills you
need to address a wide range of pain problems.
There are six
major components to the training:
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Anatomy: View, draw and
palpate the relevant musculoskeletal structures.
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Assessment: Practice
musculoskeletal assessment tests and palpation of injured
structures.
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Theory: Learn how to use the
history, positive assessment test findings and results of
palpation to determine which structures are injured. We’ll
discuss the possible causes of injury as well as effective
treatments.
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Integration: Integrate what you’ve
learned about the theory as assessment procedures through
hands-on learning games and supervised mock clinics.
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Technique: Discuss,
practice and review detailed treatment techniques to eliminate
adhesive scar tissue.
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Clinic: On the second day of the
training, practice your skills in an injury assessment clinic,
free and open to the public, under Dr. Benjamin’s supervision.
Instructor Bio:
Ben
Benjamin holds a Ph.D. in Sports Medicine and Education and is the
founder of the Muscular Therapy Institute. He studies with Dr. James
Cyriax, the “father of orthopedic medicine”, and has applies his
insights to the healing of common soft tissue injuries through
skilled massage therapy.
Recipient of numerous awards,
including the AMTA’s National President’s Award, Dr. Benjamin is the
author of many articles on working with injuries as well as the
widely used books in the field Listen to Your Pain, Are You Tense?,
and Exercise Without Injury. He has been in private practice for
over 40 years and teaches extensively throughout the country.
www.stoneandspa.com