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MEDICAL MASSAGE : COME SEE HOW WE GET UNDER PEOPLE'S SKIN (300 Hours)
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NEXT CLASS:
Starting 3/19/10 Friday from 10 AM to 4 PM students begin CranioSacral and Palpation Skills for 5 weeks. This is required class for certification. Ends 4/16/10

CORE COURSES: (Morning or Evening) Morning Evening
Pathology April 6 - May 11 (Tuesdays) May 18 - July 20 (Tuesdays)
Kinesiology April 1 - May 20 May 20 - Aug 11

 

 

 

Traumatic Injuries will be held on Monday's and Wednesday's, April 6 - April 28 (9 - 3 pm), and Lymphatic Drainage will be on Sunday's, March 14 - March 21 (1 - 7 pm).
(See Google Calendar)

Other Elective and Required courses are on the Google Calendar and include:

  • Bowen Therapy
  • Carpel Tunnel
  • Chronic Back,
  • Eastern Modalities
  • Trigger Point
  • Cupping
  • TuiNa
  • TMJ
  • Myofascial
  • Structure of the Pelvis

 

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COURSE #1: OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE PHILOSOPHY WITH EMPHASIS ON ASSESSING THE HEAD:
A TECHNIQUE CLASS

(6 Hour Class)
Class Date: Friday, February 12, 2010
Time: 10 - 4 pm


Students will learn about Osteopathic Philosophy, how Osteopaths assess and examine the body, and how to use these techniques in applying medical massage.

This course will specifically address injuries to the head, i.e. contra coup blows to the head, traumatic brain injuries-signs and symptoms, determining vectors of force to accurately access the real patterns of injury, musculoskeletal injuries, nerve entrapments and crush injuries.

As these injuries respond well to osteopathic soft tissue technique, the student will learn effective application of therapeutic massage techniques to address these injuries

THIS CLASS WILL BE COUNTED TOWARD YOUR MEDICAL MASSAGE PROGRAM
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THE THORACIC CAGE
(6 Hour Class)
Class Date: Friday, February 19, 2010
Time: 10 - 4 pm

 

Breath is life

The thorasic cage is the "Heart" of the body. We breath 24,000 times a day. The heart beats 120,000 times a day. Even a little dysfunction in the cage causes an immense "Drag" on the body. Topics included are as follows:

Somatic emotional release centered in the parasternal area

Normal pump and bucket handle motions of breathing

The implications of asthma, smoking in the chest musculature

Ribs stuck in the exhalation and inhalation

Lymphatic drainage in the cage (breat and lung cancer, inflammation disorders)

Rib raising techniques used to combat the high mortality rate of the famous 1918 flu pandemic (30% mortality rate)

Cranial sacral techniques for the rib cage

How breathing difficulties lead to a magnesium deficiency causing a cramping crisis of muscles

THIS CLASS WILL BE COUNTED TOWARD YOUR MEDICAL MASSAGE PROGRAM
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OSTEOPATHIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE STRUCTURAL EXAM OF ABDOMEN, PELVIS, AND SACRUM
(6 Hour Class)
Class Date: Friday, February 26, 2010
Time: 10 - 4 pm

 

This course will emphasize the standard osteopathic exam format of the muscular system of the abdomen and sacrum., which is the gold standard for clinical records, as well as, being a remarkable massage therapy!

These are the standard exams and soft tissue techniques taught to all osteopathic medical students. It has all the best aspects of the osteopathic profession as applied to a massage approach. Extend your abilities much farther with this unique approach to mid body dysfunction.

Explained and demonstrated. Will be the following information and techniques.

1) Release techniques for: Pelvis-pelvic diaphragm, presacral fascia, pelvic torsion techniques, inguinal ligament, erector spinae illiopsoas muscles. Abdomen-median umbilical, falciform, and coronary ligaments. Lattisimus dorsi, all oblique muscles.

2) Tune-ups for the pelvic and respitory diaphrams

3) How to respond to somatoemotional releases and their most common locations

THIS CLASS WILL BE COUNTED TOWARD YOUR MEDICAL MASSAGE PROGRAM
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