Workshop Schedule 2017 | Stretchman.com

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Saturday-Sunday, August 26-27 2017
East-West College
Portland, OR
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Saturday Seminar: Facilitated Stretching: A Baker’s Dozen 8 CE
9am-6pm, 8CE

Cost: $185, Early Registration Discount: $165 until August 5, 2017

Course Description:
Many massage therapists would like to include effective stretches in their table sessions but feel they don’t have the training or expertise to perform the stretches correctly, or struggle with the best way to incorporate them into a massage.

Facilitated Stretching is a safe, simple, effective stretching technique that can be used with a wide variety of clients to regain or improve flexibility. This course is designed to teach a baker’s dozen of valuable stretches from the facilitated stretching repertoire that can be easily incorporated into a table massage session. These stretches, combined with soft tissue work, will enable you to obtain greater overall success in client treatment sessions.

Additionally, a program of self-stretching using these techniques can be invaluable for clients in their home stretching programs.

Sunday Seminar: Upper Extremity Nerve Entrapment Syndromes 8 CE
9am-6pm, 8CE

Cost: $185, Early Registration Discount: $165 until August 5, 2017

Course Description:
This course extensively reviews the major nerve pathways of the upper extremity, including common nerve entrapment sites, reviews basic neural assessment tests, and provides palpatory practice to locate the nerve pathways on self and each other. Participants will also learn and practice effective soft-tissue interventions to help alleviate these conditions.

Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 and Saturday Sept. 16, 2017

AMTA National Convention
Pasadena Convention Center
Pasadena, CA

Course Description:
Many massage therapists would like to create a successful “sports massage” practice, but struggle with how to be successful in this niche market. This 4-hour class is focused on helping participants define and develop their unique message to market their business and attract and retain athletes and active people as clients.

Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 30 -Oct.1, 2017

Hosted by:
Integrated Therapies Institute
6162 E. Mockingbird Ln., Suite 190
Dallas TX 75214
Integrated Therapies Institute

9am-6pm each day

Course Description:
Many massage therapists would like to include effective stretches in their table sessions but feel they don’t have the training or expertise to perform the stretches correctly.

Facilitated Stretching is a safe, simple, effective stretching technique that can be used with a wide variety of clients to regain or improve flexibility. This course teaches a series of 13 valuable stretches from the facilitated stretching repertoire that can be easily incorporated into a table massage session.

Recommended Text:
Facilitated Stretching, 4th edition
Robert E. McAtee and Jeff Charland
Human Kinetics Publishers

Sunday Seminar: Alleviating Piriformis Syndrome 8 CE

Course Description

This highly-interactive course prepares practitioners to employ an array of effective soft tissue techniques to address one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints presented by clients.

We’ll discuss the causes and prevention of piriformis syndrome, review and palpate the relevant anatomy, and demonstrate/ practice assessment tests, and hands-on work that includes transverse friction, pin and stretch techniques, and isolytic contractions.

Friday-Sunday, October 27-29, 2017
NSCA Personal Trainers Conference
Anaheim, CA
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Saturday Presentation: Using Spiral/Diagonal Strengthening Patterns in the Gym, 50 minutes

Course Description

Normal movement occurs in three-dimensional, spiral-diagonal patterns, not in straight lines. Attendees in this highly interactive session learn/review the spiral-diagonal patterns of PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation), and how and why to use these patterns to transform single-plane strengthening exercises into three-dimensional patterns of motion that mimic natural movements.

This seminar is geared to fitness professionals who have minimal experience with PNF techniques and 80% of the time is devoted to hands-on practice under expert supervision.

Saturday-Sunday, November 11-12, 2017
Axiom Fitness Academy
Boca Raton, FL
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Facilitated Stretching and Strengthening for the Fitness Professional 10 CE

Course Description

Increasingly, personal training clients are seeking more balance in their health and wellness programs and value workouts that incorporate strength, endurance, and flexibility work.

Many personal trainers would like to include effective flexibility work during their client sessions but don’t feel confident to perform these routines safely and professionally. Facilitated stretching is an active-assisted partner technique that’s easy to learn and to incorporate into your current training style.

Because normal movement occurs not in straight lines, but in tri-planar, spiral-diagonal patterns, facilitated stretching is based on the principles of PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) and can be used to isolate one muscle at a time, or use the spiral-diagonal patterns of PNF to stretch groups of muscles simultaneously.

Additionally, these three-dimensional movement patterns can be used to transform standard strengthening exercises into more functional patterns of motion that mimic natural movements, thereby adding variety and challenge to strength training sessions.

This seminar is geared to fitness professionals who have minimal experience with PNF stretching/strengthening theory and techniques and 85% of the time is devoted to hands-on practice under expert supervision.