Trigger Point Therapy Course
5 CPD Credits/Certificate
Category: Part-time
Duration: 1 Day
The Natural Health School of Complementary Therapies Ltd.,
Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey, KT7 0HB,
Surrey/Middlesex/London,
Surrey,
England,
TW12 1AB.
0208 287 6364
Taught by Jane Johnson (Chartered Physiotherapist).
Trigger Point Therapy: A great 1 day workshop designed for qualified therapists in Massage therapy & Sports Massage. Trigger point therapy can help headaches, neck stiffness, carpal tunnel type symptoms, tennis elbow, bursitis, frozen shoulder, back pain, low back stiffness, sciatica, shin splints. Come and learn the skills to enable you to find and treat trigger points so that you are able to offer your clients immediate relief. Trigger points are accumulations of waste products around a nerve receptor. Which feel like nodules within the soft tissues. They form in muscles which have been overused or injured due to an accident or surgery. Common characteristics are increased muscle tension and muscle shortening. Increased muscle tension is the primary side-effect of trigger points and pain is the most common secondary effect. Trigger points can present themselves as referred patterns of sensation such as sharp pain, dull ache, tingling, pins and needles, hot or cold, as well as can create symptoms such as nausea, ear ache, equilibrium disturbance, or blurred vision. The workshop will cover, what trigger points are in detail, patterns of pain , common sites of trigger points, how to locate them, how to de-activate them and contra-indications.
The workshop will be largely practical in content and students will be required to wear your normal therapist clothing for the day. *A certificate of attendance will be provided for this workshop. Dates: 20th April 2007, CPD Approved Workshop by Embody (5 CPD's) Cost £75.00
Dates
14th December 2007.
