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Day 1: Advanced Deep Tissue & Myofascial Techniques for the Neck & Back | May 18, 2024 (Saturday) · 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Day 2: Advanced Deep Tissue & Myofascial Techniques for the Shoulder & Knee | May 19, 2024 (Sunday) · 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

CE Hours: 14

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This is for the IN-PERSON version of this workshop. Find the virtual workshop here.

Overview

FOR YOUR SAFETY: Participants will be notified of any COVID-19 restrictions prior to the event.

Prospective attendees can sign up for either one or two days and get the full experience. Each course is NCBTMB-approved for 7 CE hours.

Dr. Benjamin founded the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1974 and has been in private practice for 55 years. He travels throughout the country teaching orthopedic manual therapy, ethics, and Active Assisted Stretching.  He is the author of Are You Tense?, Exercise without Injury, Listen to your Pain, and a co-author of the Ethics of Touch and Conversation Transformation. Over the last two decades, he has also created a series of DVD and streaming programs on the assessment and treatment of the low back, the neck, the knee, the shoulder, and various common injuries as well as a 3-volume series on advanced technique and a 7–part series on Active Assisted Stretching.

Advanced Deep Tissue & Myofascial Techniques for the Neck & Back

Watch a 1-hour preview of this course here.

Don't miss this opportunity to attend Dr. Benjamin's accelerated course in muscular therapy for injury, which is 95% hands-on. You'll learn detailed palpation anatomy, as well as over 25 myofascial and massage techniques designed to support the treatment of the most common soft-tissue injuries in the neck, mid-back, and low back.

You will also understand the anatomy of these structures as never before through physically locating and palpating each muscle, tendon, and ligament targeted with these techniques. Most of these injury-related techniques were developed from actual cases from Dr. Benjamin's clinical practice.

Structures from the back and the neck that you will locate and palpate:

Back

• supraspinous and suprasacral ligaments
• iliolumbar ligaments
• sacroiliac ligaments
• sacrotuberous ligaments
• gluteus medius muscle

Neck

• supraspinous and nuchal ligaments
• intertransverse ligaments
• TP7 ligaments
• suboccipital muscles
• sternocleidomastoid muscles

Advanced Deep Tissue & Myofascial Techniques for the Shoulder & Knee

Watch a 1-hour preview of this course here.

Join Dr. Ben Benjamin for this 95% hands-on workshop. At this full-day training, you will learn several dozen myofascial and deep tissue muscular therapy techniques to address pain and injury in some of the most commonly injured structures of the shoulder and knee.

You will also understand the anatomy of these structures as never before through physically locating and palpating each muscle, tendon, and ligament targeted with these techniques. Most of these injury-related techniques were developed from actual cases from Dr. Benjamin's clinical practice.

Structures from the shoulder and the knee that you will locate and palpate:

Shoulder

• acromioclavicular ligaments and surrounding muscles
• muscle-tendons units of subscapularis
• supraspinatus infraspinatus
• teres minor
• pectoralis major

Knee

• suprapatellar and infrapatellar tendons
• medial and lateral quadriceps expansions
• patellar retinacula
• collateral ligaments
• coronary ligaments

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