The Fascial Therapy Course

Course Date and Time:

05 - 08 September 2022 ( 4 Days course )

Time to be announced soon.

Course Describtion:

The Fascial Therapy course is designed to introduce the beginner as well as the experienced practitioner to a broad spectrum of myofascial releasing methods that encompass all soft-tissue.

Fascia is the form that encases and surrounds all soft-tissue, creating compartments, containers and scaffolding to anchor tissue. With this understanding, basic applied methods can be adapted and applied to this form to create efficient rapid change.

Fascial Therapy introduces direct and indirect methods employing active and passive techniques that utilize sensory receptor activation, understanding the autonomic system response that results in the application of these various techniques.

Emphasis is placed upon assessment patterns through fundamental palpation of lines of myofascial tension. These include cardinal lines; anterior, posterior and lateral, as well as four arm line (Myers) are palpated and then technique applied. These line have areas that are not usually palpated, and it is these areas (intermuscular septums for example) that often result in not achieving the desired clinical outcomes for a practitioner.

The last module will be a clinical practice session, where clients, friends or family are invited so as to experience the instruction and new skills acquired by participants. This is also a time to instruct more complexity and showcase material for Fascial Therapy 2.

By the completion of this course, the practitioner will have a new way of clinical thought, have new application skills that use much less force and effort to achieve desirable effects, reducing pain sensitivity usually experience by more forceful applications.

Course Objectives:

• Understanding the importance of presence and intent as clinical ‘tools’.

• Understanding the response and importance of the autonomic nervous system in relation to systemic discharges and soft-tissue release.

• Instructed is the use of ‘ease-bind’ osteopathic assessment protocol for clinical decision-making, palpation and technique.

• Focus is also placed on joint accessory motion and the important interface with myofascial.

• Thus joint leverage compression and tension techniques are introduced that allow for rapid change to the surrounding capsular tissue.

• Ligament technique options as well as locations of application are instructed.

• Indirect application in the form of the ‘Two Point’ is instructed and protocol to release transverse planes are practiced. Within this protocol anterior neck muscles, supra and infra-hyoid muscles will be palpated and treated.

• And integrated into this system of bodywork is the use of modified Muscle Energy Technique MET, used to treat ‘bind’ directional barriers, enhance receptor response and assess muscular inhibition.

Target Audience:

• Physios
• Chiropractors
• Osteopaths
• Manual and Massage Therapists
• kinesiologists
• Medical Doctors