Why did Mary Biancalana create this online learning channel?
I created this learning channel so I could gather the world’s leaders who treat and understand myofascial pain and dysfunction. As a practitioner who has spent the past 25 years in full-time clinical practice, I have seen how our standard healthcare system fails when it comes to eliminating myofascial pain and dysfunction caused by trigger points in the muscles. So I created this channel and my courses so we could teach thousands of practitioners how to restore and optimize muscle function and eliminate pain!
Using these techniques, you will have the power to take someone who is suffering in pain and use the trigger point therapy treatment model and clinical reasoning to give them their life back! It is my (Mary Biancalana) passion and dedication to this body of work that has kept me happy and healthy in this practice for the past 25 years. As a university-trained educator, with a bachelor's degree and master's degree in education, I felt it was my duty to provide the highest quality, most up-to-date research-driven education for massage therapists and other manual clinicians.
I welcome you and challenge you to go out there and change the world, one client/patient at a time.
How did this learning channel come to be?
I (Mary Biancalana) had already been teaching seminars for 20 years all over the world, and early in 2019 I wanted to move to online education so I could reach more people.
In November, 2019 I did an overview of online education for massage therapists. What I learned was that continuing education for massage therapists and manual practitioners was in a sad state of affairs. Because of that, I vowed to develop and provide the highest quality, University-level online education! I knew that if I set my standards high, and used my degree in Education to create interesting, objective and clear-to-understand curriculum that I would attract the brightest and discerning practitioners to my courses. Also by setting set the bar way high, I hoped that others would improve their online education materials.
I also vowed to invite the world's leading experts in myofascial pain, facia, self-care, neuromuscular therapy, sports rehabilitation, and anatomy to have their own continuing education programming on my channel.
It has been a wonderful ride. I have already provided over 250 live, online and hybrid broadcast educational courses and workshops.
What's next? Fall of 2024 I will have a series of courses teaching about eliminating myofascial pain and dysfunction.
Mary Biancalana: Teaching Trigger Point Therapy for 25 years all over the world
As a state-licensed and University-trained educator, Mary Biancalana brings a unique set of skills to teaching manual therapy techniques that very few possess in the world. With a background in university-level kinesiology, physiology of exercise, anatomy, physiology, and graduate level course work in curriculum development, goal-setting, and education modification for each unique learner, Mary Biancalana certainly sets the bar at its highest point for continuing education providers.
Since the year 2000, Mary Biancalana has been bringing her passion and unbridled energy to teaching, and forwarding the field of myofascial trigger point therapy. Mary has brought myofascial trigger point therapy to practitioners all over the world. She has taught hundreds of live seminars in Chicagoland as well as for 8 years in her 2,000 sq/ft custom built clinic, The Chicago Center for Myofascial Pain Relief. (Closed in June 2022). She has taught live seminars all over the United States as well. Mary has been a featured presenter for many of the state chapters of the American Massage Therapy Association. Mary also has been a presenter for NATA, National Athletic Trainers Association together with her friend and colleague Dr Julie Zuleger, faculty instructor for University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in the Health Sciences Department.
Mary was also a pioneer in online education dating back to 2014, 2015. In those years she hosted some of the first live online webinars teaching and discussing myofascial trigger point therapy techniques. All combined, in her 6 live broadcast webinars in 2014 and 2015, Mary had almost 3,000 registrants.
Mary has also been a featured speaker for many medical conferences and nationally recognized massage therapy conferences including NAMTPT where she has been a featured presenter for the National Association of myofascial trigger point therapists annual conference for 21 straight years!
In 2017, Mary Biancalana was the only non medical doctor or non physical therapist to be accepted as a presenter to The Prestigious World Congress on Myofascial Pain and Fibromyalgia, held September, 2017 in Bangalore India. What an honor and what a fantastic experience!
So keep an eye on this channel and we know that you will see and find information from the world leaders in the form of the highest quality online education. In this way, we will help you to keep your knowledge and understanding of the soft tissue matrix as up-to-date as humanly possible.
