What will you learn in this class?
Learning Objectives
You, the student, will:
1. understand that trigger points in certain muscles can create referred pain and/or sensation and/or muscle dysfunction in the thigh and knee area.
2. understand the patho-chemistry of the trigger point complex that the contractile element in the trigger point complex includes some lengthened sarcomeres and some shortened sarcomeres that are stuck in the biochemically altered regional trigger point complex.
3. be able to actively demonstrate the hands-on trigger point pressure release techniques for the muscles that can refer pain into the thigh and knee region
4. be able to incorporate the techniques demonstrated into your own manual therapy practice.
5. understand that there are many manual therapy techniques including PNF, static compression, trigger point pressure release, contract/relax/stretch, percussion and effleurage. These techniques have the goal to lengthen muscles and promote normal resting length and reduction in pain or dysfunction.
6. be able to identify the specific muscles and the perpetuating factors that can cause or contribute to thigh and knee pain.
Course Description
This class will help the hands-on practitioner understand the complex etiology of knee and thigh pain and will teach treatment techniques to eliminate trigger points and myofascial dysfunction in the muscles that can cause thigh and knee pain. This class is especially important to any practitioners who work with athletes or exercisers of any kind. This class will also be particularly relevant for any practitioner who works with people who run, swim, bike, walk or jog. (pretty much all humans).
We will also learn about perpetuating factors that can increase thigh and knee problems including too much sitting, poor sleep, driving and sitting posture, poor footwear choices, hyperpronation of the foot and short/tight hamstrings and quads.
The live webinar format will have the instructor, Mary Biancalana showing demonstration of the techniques via Zoom camera. Then she will be guiding the group through the techniques, live, with a demo client, while you the learner are in the safety of your own home. Instructional videos will be recorded and provided as a future reference to the techniques so the student can practice again at a later time.
Are you attending via Zoom or In-Person?
Are you attending via Zoom or In-Person? If you are planning to attend, in person send an email to [email protected] with "In-Person Attendance" in the subject line and the name of the class you are attending. (We are limiting the total number of in-person learners, and will register people on a first-come basis).
All In-Person learners will be required to wear a mask for the duration of the course.
Important Reminders
1. You need to create your own ZOOM account prior to the webinar.
2. Log into your account, then click "Join a Meeting" and enter in the above meeting ID# and Password.
After your registration is finished, you should mark the class date and time on your calendar!
You will use this log-info to enter the webinar when the time comes. Be sure to log in 10 minutes before the webinar begins. You will be put into a "waiting room". We will start the webinar right at the top of the hour.
If you don't have Zoom on your computer, Click here to go to ZOOM.us
If you are a massage therapist or PT looking for CE's AND you CANNOT attend this whole webinar during the scheduled time frame, do not register. It will not be available to watch at a later time. This is a live-attended CEU program. You can register for any of our Pre-recorded courses.
Questions? Email: [email protected] or call my clinic # 773-628-7654
Course Information
Course Explanation:
In this NCBTMB Continuing Education Approved Course, TRIGGER POINT TECHNIQUES FOR ELIMINATING THIGH AND KNEE PAIN, provided to us by Mary Biancalana of Muscle Health LLC.
This course will be a 7-hour, live-broadcast and interactive webinar in which the instructor, Mary Biancalana, will be live-teaching and live-demonstrating hands-on trigger point techniques. Each student will need to have a client to work on to show application of the techniques.
The format of the 7-hour class will begin at 9am with 1.5 hour of lecture and then will have 2.5 hours of hands-on. Then a 1 hour break for lunch, then 2 more hours of hands on, then 1 hours of lecture.
Course Expiration:
Because this is a live 7-hour Zoom webinar that will qualify as “hands-on” CE hours, the course expires on the day and the hour in which the broadcast is over. There will not be a recording available to watch after the webinar is over. So each student needs to be actively participating for the entire duration of the zoom webinar broadcast.
NCBTMB Course Approval:
This course and the provider; Muscle Health, LLC ( owned by Mary Biancalana) is a NCBTMB approved provider of continuing education. Our Provider number is 451298-10
On her website, Mary Biancalana identifies her many seminars as falling under the title of Advanced Trigger Point Seminars. Mary also teaches live, hands-on seminars under the same NCBTMB Approved Provider status, so contact us if you are interested in live, in-person training courses.
[email protected] 773-628-7654
Copyright Note:
The material within this course and the way in which it is organized and taught as well as the image and videos of Mary Biancalana and the voice of Mary Biancalana are copyright by Muscle Health, LLC. The videos, Mary’s voice, or the description of any of the particular techniques taught in this way by Mary Biancalana cannot be taught within other for-fee seminars unless permission is requested of us and granted by Muscle Health, LLC and Mary Biancalana. Many of our videos are for personal and public use on our YouTube channel; Chicago Center for Myofascial Pain Relief.
Disclaimer Note:
This online training course should in no way serve as a substitute for qualified medical care. If you have pain or discomfort in any of the areas described, it is your responsibility to seek the advice of a qualified medical professional. Muscle Health LLC, Mary Biancalana, and other instructors will take not any liability for any injuries or discomfort acquired during the application of these techniques. It is your duty as the student to make your choice together with your healthcare provider as to whether or not you are healthy enough to participate in application of these techniques included but not limited to trigger point pressure release.
Refunds:
In alignment with the AMTA’s online refund policy, Muscle Health, LLC will not offer any refunds
to our online courses.
