Reversing Tendinitis
4 CE Hours NCBTMB $70.00
Required reading: Article by Patrick Moore: http://ezinearticles.com/?Heal-Your-Own-Tendinitis&id=1106944
When Tendinitis is treated not as inflammation, but scar tissue, reversing tendinitis becomes a simple mechanical matter. You'll learn to removing the overgrown scar tissue with the effects of ice, massage, and intention. An important part of healing is to redirect the person's perspective. Hope, visualization, and expectation, research has shown, dramatically influence the immune system. Learn to explain to clients: "This is how your body got this way and this is why it will improve with my treatment and your homework."
Reversing Tendinitis
$80.00, provides 4 CE Hours toward NCBTMB and AZ State. Handouts.
Tendinitis is scar tissue. There are two problems with scar tissue--first, it creates a lump that rubs on other things which creates pain from friction. Second, randomly directed scar tissue fibers are not as strong as the original parallel tendon fibers. Reversing tendinitis is simply a matter of removing the non-parallel fibers of scar tissue with the effects of ice. The only difficult part is finding the exact site of the lesion, which is smaller than a grain of rice. That's why we'll practice drawing, palpating and icing these tendon sites: subscapularis, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, extensor digitorum, flexor digitorum, plantar fascia, pectineus, and psoas. Please read the article by Patrick Moore in advance at http://ezinearticles.com/?Heal-Your-Own-Tendinitis&id=1106944
Standing Wave Jostling
People bring heavy emotions and hard muscles into the massage room. Jostling lightens up the tone of any bodywork session. In the last five years, research has shown that playful teasing aids a depth of trust and communication. Jostling is playful and aids depth of nonverbal communication and trust.
Jostling is both an art and a science. The science part is the "standing wave," which we will diagram. Hands-on exercises include learning to play "overtones" on a guitar and to jostle a rope into a standing wave. Once the waveform is seen, heard, and felt proprioceptively, we move on to create standing waves through your partner on the massage table. We will also do seven dance/movement exercises to jostle our own bodies free at the chakras for an "inside" experience of standing wave jostling.
Technique you will learn: By poking the bottom of the foot you will learn to create a vibration of hip elevation and lumbar sidebending. From the knee we can vibrate the hip into medial and lateral rotation. While working the hand we vibrate the shoulder and neck.
Digging Fossils: Elbows in Low Back and Psoas Treatment $80 5-hr
Muscle Tension was created at some time in the past. The person experienced an event or injury too intense to process in the moment. The person's brain then stored the intensity in the muscles to process later. The tension is stored as a puzzle, just difficult enough that the person won't accidentally re-expereince the injury.
Our job as muscle therapists is to unravel this puzzle in a respectful way that does not overwhelm the person. The skilled therapist allows just the right amount of intensity to seep out of the muscles so that the comfortable person may process at a rate that is perfect for them.
Using your elbow does not mean you have to use your whole body weight to crush a muscle to death! Elbows can be used at any pressure level that you would use your hands.
Elbows are a great tool for massage for several reasons. They don't fatigue. Muscles are more likely to relax if your contact point provides steady, unvarying pressure for long enough to feel the muscle change.
No lecture: During partner exercises we will re-train your awareness through your friendly elbow so that you can a) "feel" small changes in muscle, b) experience featherlight pressures, and c) vary pressure in repeatable increments from one to one hundred.
Muscle groups we'll melt with friendly elbows: lumbar paraspinals, lumbar sidebenders, psoas. Bring sheets and massage oil only; lotion is too slippery.
Digging Fossils: Elbows for Hip treatment $$80 5-hr
Muscle Tension was created at some time in the past. The person experienced an event or injury too intense to process in the moment. The person's brain then stored the intensity in the muscles to process later. The tension is stored as a puzzle, just difficult enough that the person won't accidentally re-expereince the injury.
Our job as muscle therapists is to unravel this puzzle in a respectful way that does not overwhelm the person. The skilled therapist allows just the right amount of intensity to seep out of the muscles so that the comfortable person may process at a rate that is perfect for them.
Using your elbow does not mean you have to use your whole body weight to crush a muscle to death! Elbows can be used at any pressure level that you would use your hands.
Elbows are a great tool for massage for several reasons. They don't fatigue. Muscles are more likely to relax if your contact point provides steady, unvarying pressure for long enough to feel the muscle change.
No lecture: During partner exercises we will re-train your awareness through your friendly elbow so that you can a) "feel" small changes in muscle, b) experience featherlight pressures, and c) vary pressure in repeatable increments from one to one hundred.
Muscle groups we'll melt with friendly elbows: gluteus minimus, medius, maximus, piriformis, tensor fascia latte, pectineus. Bring sheets for diaper draping and massage oil only; lotion is too slippery.
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