Marty Morales – Relieving Low Back Pain: Assessment and Client Participation (2.0 CEUs)

Description Of Relieving Low Back Pain: Assessment and Client Participation

Utilizing movement therapy, body conditioning, and assessment to treat low back pain

Are you looking for simple ways to get your client actively engaged in your bodywork sessions by bringing in body conditioning? Or maybe you are wanting to learn some quick and easy assessments to make your work more efficient and focused? Either way, this Morales Method® of Manual Therapy & Body Conditioning course could be the course for you!

Learning how to assess and engage your clients in their sessions can bring a whole new element to your practice. By integrating active and passive elements into your sessions, you provide the client’s nervous system with diverse opportunities for interaction. These cued movements present challenges that help the client learn and integrate new patterns, targeting deep and intrinsic restrictions in the lumbar spine and sacrum. Join this course to elevate your bodywork sessions and achieve remarkable results for your clients.

What You’ll Learn In Relieving Low Back Pain: Assessment and Client Participation

In this course, you will learn:

• Assessments for both the Sacrum and the Lumbar spine to help you know where to work first
• Lumbar Spinal Mechanics to help you assess for rotate vertebra in the lumbar spine
• How to incorporate movement therapy into your manual therapy practice to release muscular tension, address rotate vertebra, and relieve back pain for your clients

At the end of this course, you will know how to safely and effectively treat low back pain by combining assessment and client interaction in your practice!

Course Curriculum

Sacrum Assessments and Techniques

• Introduction (5:35)
• Sacral Assessments Overview (12:19)
• Standing Flexion Test Demo (6:18)
• Stork Test Demo (4:23)
• Seated Sacroiliac ROM Test (5:29)
• Sacral Techniques: Part 1 (10:08)
• Sacral Techniques: Part 2 (11:59)

Lumbar Assessments and Techniques

• Lumbar Assessments Overview (14:05)
• Lumbar Assessments Demo (8:36)
• Lumbar Techniques: Part 1 (18:19)
• Lumbar Techniques: Part 2 (12:36)
• Conclusion (4:03)
• Quiz

About Marty Morales

• Certified Advanced Rolfer®, CMT
• Founder of the Morales Method® of Manual Therapy & Body Conditioning
• NCBTMB and FL State Massage Board (50-31259) approved continuing education provider
• Creator of the Morales Method® Academy of Structural Integration
• Author: Deep Tissue Bodywork- A New Approach to a Classic Modality, Mastering Body Mechanics, 2nd Ed, and Morales Method® Core Integration Therapy
• Teaching since 2006
• Marty has taught in California, Nevada, Washington, Florida, Japan, Switzerland, Poland, and Taiwan
• In private practice since 2003 with over 10,000 hours of private practice logged
• MBA in Finance from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
• Read testimonials from previous students here.

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