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Full-Day Session
Saturday, September 26, 8:00am-5:30pm
Myoskeletal Alignment of Scoliosis, Sciatic &
Sacroiliac Pain
This upbeat skill-enhancing seminar teaches “joint-springing and joint-stretching”
routines to relieve protective muscle guarding responsible for low back and sacroiliac
pain. Participants also learn a basic structural integration routine to ‘find and fix’
compensatory scoliotic patterns. Take these techniques to your table on Monday morning.
8 CE hours. (Hands On Course)
 Instructor: Erik Dalton
Erik Dalton, Ph.D., has dedicated 30 years to somatic studies such as massage,
Rolfing® and osteopathy while maintaining a full-time Myoskeletal Alignment® pain
management practice.
Morning Sessions
Saturday, September 26, 8:00am-12:00pm
Trust This, Doubt That: Evaluating the
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Published
Research
The buzz around evidence-based
practice means that we must use
available scientific evidence, our
clinical experiences, and client
preferences when deciding how to care
for clients. This session will
focus on how to assess the variety of
evidence that is beginning to
demonstrate the benefits of massage
therapy. The session will
also consider the sources of error that
exist in making clinical observations
and measurements and discuss the
strengths and weaknesses of various
observational and experimental research
designs, exploring how researchable
questions are created, how experiments
are designed and executed, and how
reports are published. 4 CE Hours.
 Instructors: Karen Boulanger and Glenn Hymel
Karen Boulanger has been in practice since 1999 and has published research on public
health and massage. She is also the Practice Section editor of the IJTMB.
 Glenn M. Hymel, EdD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at
Loyola University New Orleans. His principal areas of specialization include
ducational psychology, research & statistics, and the psychology of personal adjustment.
Unwinding, The Core of
Cranio-Sacral Work
Cranio-Sacral, called the healing modality of the 21st century, is an intuitive
healing art and a scientific therapy effectively used for clients with physical,
emotional and energetic issues. Learn how the cranial rhythm moves through the body
and a fascinating application called unwinding, which you’ll be able to immediately
use with your clients. 4 CE Hours.
(Hands On Course)
 Instructor: Ursula Popp
Ursula Popp, L.Ac., VCSP is a highly regarded international practitioner and
educator specializing in cranio-sacral for twenty years. She has extensive training
in acupuncture, cranio-sacral osteopathy,
counseling, massage and zen meditation.
Neuromuscular Evaluation &
Treatment Plans
Dramatically increase your NMT
effectiveness. Practice evaluation
skills including posture, range of
motion tests, movement pattern analysis,
simple orthopedic tests, using trigger
point and dermatone charts. Use
each of these to develop a therapy plan
for specific muscles including movement
re-education and what to massage,
stretch, or strengthen. 4 CE Hours.
 Instructor: Dennis Price
Dennis Price started NMT in 1984
and has extensively studied corrective
exercise. He has taught various
sports medicine events in five
countries.
Teaching Business Ethics Can Be Fun!
Breathe new life into your ethics courses! In this workshop we explore
techniques to strengthen the impact of your course material delivery and support
students to engage in self-examination. This workshop is highly interactive. Come
prepared with questions, curriculum ideas and specific concerns. Let’s make teaching
business ethics a pleasure! 4 CE Hours.
 Instructor: Cherie Sohnen-Moe
Cherie Sohnen-Moe is an adjunct professor at Clayton College and owner
of Sohnen-Moe Associates, an approved continuing education provider with the National
Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and the Florida State Department
of Health. She has written more than 100 articles.
Unlocking Computer Shoulder (repeat)
As therapists, we recognize the prevalence of postural distortion and pain patterns
associated with computer use. Our practices are full of clients seeking relief from
habitual job functions where computer use is required, coupled with hours of “surfing the
web.” This class will focus on unwinding the cumulative effects of elevated shoulders,
kyphotic spinal curvature, medial rotation of the humerus and forward head posture.
4 CE Hours. (Hands On Course)
 Instructor: Eric Stephenson
Eric Stephenson, LMT, NCTMB. As the Director of Education for imassage,
Inc., Eric is a national presenter
passionate about providing continuing
education focused on career longevity.
He is a regular contributor to Massage
Magazine.
The Ethics of Client Communication: Talking to
Clients About Their Health
How many times have you worked with a client and noticed something that made you
wonder about his or her health? How many times have you felt uncomfortable discussing it?
This class addresses the delicate art of communicating professionally and with open hearts
when we have concerns about our clients’ well being. Basic principles of active listening
will be reviewed and employed as students break into small groups to role-play a variety
of difficult client-therapist conversations, all based on real-life situations provided
by past participants. 4 CE Hours.
 Instructor: Ruth Werner
Ruth Werner is a massage
therapist, writer, educator and the Education Chair
and President Elect of the Massage Therapy Foundation.
She has served on committees
for the Utah Department of Public Licensing, the AMTA, the National Certifying Board for
Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, and the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards.
She was the AMTA Council of Schools
Teacher of the Year Award recipient in 2005.
Afternoon Sessions
Saturday, September 26, 1:30pm-5:30pm
Managing Physical Stress with Therapeutic
Massage
A fun, interactive workshop that will help reduce your own stress while reinforcing
tips and techniques to use with your clients and students. After reviewing some stress
theory and stress assessment tools, the focus will shift to practical tips for reducing
stress related problems. 4 CE Hours.
 Instructor: Jeff Forman
Jeffrey Forman Ph.D. NCTMB, a professor and massage therapy program coordinator at
De Anza College in Cupertino, California is also a speaker, author and stress reduction
consultant.
Just Say NO! to the Thumb & Awkward Postures (repeat)
Designed to assist practitioners in preventing occupational injuries, this course
emphasizes two essential rules of safe body mechanics: Say NO to the thumb and avoid
awkward postures. Participants will learn a “no thumb” approach to deep work. We will
also examine how awkward postures can be replaced with ergonomically sound
alternatives. Session is repeated. 4 CE Hours.
(Hands On Course)
 Instructor: Barbara Frye
Barbara Frye has been a massage educator and therapist in private practices since
1990, served as a lead instructor at Ashmead College, coordinated IBM’s body mechanics
program, and authored Body Mechanics for Manual Therapists: A Functional Approach to
Self-Care, 3rd Edition. She has a massage and Feldenkrais practice at the Pluspunkt
Center for Therapy and Advanced Studies near Zurich, Switzerland.
Trio-Trades for Assessment of Body Mechanics & Applied
Movement for Massage (repeat)
This three-part assessment utilizes
adaptable, take-home checklists for
assessing body mechanics and massage "table-side" practices. Using "before and after"
demos and discussions, teams of three therapists take turns observing, working and
receiving massage in 30 minute segments. Suggestions for modifications and evaluation
round out this fun, interactive workshop. 4 CE Hours.
(Hands On Course)
 Instructor: Mary Ellen Hendrickson
Reinventing "the light bulb" effect about bodymechanics, remains a passion in
Hendrickson’s practice of the past 14 years, and currently, as a massage educator.
Visceral Manipulation Applications for
Whiplash
This specialized course focuses on the impact of whiplash and trauma from new
evaluation and treatment perspectives. VM employs precise evaluation techniques to
determine the cause of the dysfunction and applies specifically-placed manual forces
to encourage the normal mobility and tone of the connective tissues. Barral’s
Visceral Manipulation seminars have been taught in the U.S. since 1985. 4 CE Hours.
(Hands On Course)
 Instructor: Ali Korosy
Ali Korosy focuses on the Visceral Manipulation and Neural Manipulation
modalities developed by French Osteopath Jean-Pierre Barral. In 2007 Ali became
a Presenter for Visceral Manipulation Therapy and Neural Manipulation Therapy for
the Barral Institute.
Relief: The Rossiter System for Massage
Therapists
This class introduces you to The Rossiter
System, a series of quickly
effectively, deeply powerful, two-person stretching techniques that loosen and
elongate connective tissue from head to toe. This introduction gives you a peek
at techniques for preventing and relieving carpal tunnel syndrome, stiff necks and
shoulders, sore hands and more. Learn new body mechanics so that you can preserve
your own body for many more years of the nurturing, supportive work you love! 4 CE Hours.
(Hands On Course)
 Instructor: Richard Rossiter
Richard H. Rossiter is a certified advanced Rolfer (connective tissue specialist) whose own journey to find relief from chronic shoulder pain led him to create The Rossiter System.
Current Research on Cancer
and Massage Therapy Foundation Case
Report Winner Presentations
The first half of this class will
feature presentations from three leaders
in the field of massage and cancer
research.
Leila Kozak, PhD,
CAM, Comfort Care at the
End of Life: research lessons from a
NCI-funded randomized clinical trial (RCT)
of massage and meditation in people at
the end of life
Jennifer Rosen, MD, FACS,
Massage
therapy for reduction of perioperative
anxiety and pain in cancer patients
undergoing implantable catheter
insertion
Marlaine C. Smith,
RN, PhD, AHN-BC, FAAN,
Efficacy of Massage Therapy for
End-of-Life Care
The Massage Therapy Foundation Case
Report Contest Gold Award winners will
present their studies during the second
half of this class.
Erika Larson, Massage Therapy Effects
in a Long-Time Prosthetic User with
Fibular Hemimelia, 2008 Practitioner
Contest Winner
2009 Student Contest Winner:
Amy Axt Hanson,
Improving Mobility in a Client with
Hypochondroplasia (Dwarfism): A Case
Report, Cortiva Institute, Seattle
School of Massage Therapy, 2009 Student
Case Report Contest Winner
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