Trigger Point Therapy
CPD Approved Course (5 CPD Credits)
Taught by Jane Johnson (Chartered Physiotherapist)
A great 1 day workshop designed for qualified therapists in Massage therapy & Sports Massage. Trigger point therapy can help headaches, neck stiffness, carpal tunnel type symptoms, tennis elbow, bursitis, frozen shoulder, back pain, low back stiffness, sciatica, shin splints. Come and learn the skills to enable you to find and treat trigger points so that you are able to offer your clients immediate relief. Trigger points are accumulations of waste products around a nerve receptor. Which feel like nodules within the soft tissues. They form in muscles which have been overused or injured due to an accident or surgery. Common characteristics are increased muscle tension and muscle shortening. Increased muscle tension is the primary side-effect of trigger points and pain is the most common secondary effect. Trigger points can present themselves as referred patterns of sensation such as sharp pain, dull ache, tingling, pins and needles, hot or cold, as well as can create symptoms such as nausea, ear ache, equilibrium disturbance, or blurred vision. The workshop will cover, what trigger points are in detail, patterns of pain , common sites of trigger points, how to locate them, how to de-activate them and contra-indications.
The workshop will be largely practical in content and students will be required to wear your normal therapist clothing for the day. *A certificate of attendance will be provided for this workshop.
Contents
What¹s a trigger point?
What are they, physiologically speaking?
Why do they occur?
What are their effects?
How are they identified?
What do they feel like to palpate?
How are they treated?
Treatment tools for manual therapy
Variations in technique
How can I be really effective?
Grouping muscles according to
their pain referral patterns
head, neck, face
shoulder, upper back, upper arm
hip, thigh, knee
forearm, elbow, hand
chest, abdominal, genital
mid, low back and buttocks
leg, ankle, foot
Illustrations of trigger points covered in the handouts include those in the
following muscles:
Head, neck, face, levator scapaulae, trapezius, neck extensors and rotatores, facial and scalp muscles, (masseter, buccinator,
pterogoids, temporalis, orbicularis occuli), sternocleidomastoid
Shoulder, upper back, upper arm: scalenes, rhomboids, serratus posterior, rotator cuff (supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor,
subscapularis), deltoid, teres major, latissimus dorsi, biceps, coracobrachilais,
Hip, thigh, knee: tensor fascia latae, hamstrings, sartorius, quadriceps, adductors (including pectineus and gracilis)
Forearm, elbow, hand: pollicis muscles, flexor carpi radialis, supinator, flexor carpi ulnaris, extensor carpi radialis, extensor digitorum
Chest, abdominal: pectoralis major, pectoralis minor, abdominal muscles, iliopsoas
Mid, low back and buttock pain: spinal extensors (iliocostalis, longissimus), quadratus lumborum, piriformis, gluteals.
Leg, ankle, foot: tibialis anterior, peroneals, gastrocnemius, soleus.
Dates: 5th July 2008.
CPD Approved Workshop by Embody (5 CPD's)
Cost £75.00 |
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