This bundle includes:
- CTB Fundamentals Module (4 CEs)
- CTB For Upper Body Pain (28 CEs)
- CTB Members Mastermind
Shoulder pain is at epidemic level today, yet few therapists understand how to analyze and treat pain in this highly mobile, complex area of the body. Level up your confidence and success with our flagship course on shoulder pain, based on over 15 years of clinical experience.
Previously only available within the CTB Membership Bundle, CTB for Upper Body Pain - Foundation is now available as a self-contained, standalone module that will serve as your shoulder pain guide for years to come.
This in-depth course covers the highly effective Coaching The Body® approach to the analysis and treatment of shoulder, upper back and neck pain. Transform your results with clients by tracing common upper body pain conditions to the source using revolutionary CTB analysis and trigger point techniques.
The shoulder is a complex region and very few shoulder complaints can be solved with a simplistic approach to trigger point therapy. Our method includes a sophisticated understanding of scapular positioning and functional relationships, satellite referral, neurological distraction and downregulation of the central nervous system to provide results unmatched in any other approach.
Course Contents
- Total of 32 NCBTMB-approved continuing education units
- CTB Fundamentals (4 CEs) including CTB principles, trigger point theory
- Functional anatomy, trigger point characteristics, treatment specifics for each of 20+ muscles critical to shoulder and neck pain
- The CTB Clinical Core Treatment Protocol for the Upper Body
- Specific analysis and treatment of frozen shoulder
- Common incorrect diagnoses and the real factors setting up these conditions
- Self-care techniques for clients
- Assessment and correction of perpetuating factors for shoulder pain
You will learn to first correct scapular positioning before more specific treatment of the rotator cuff muscles so you avoid the common pitfalls of trying to treat muscles that are under regional stress from functional compromise and satellite referral.
The course also includes a thorough analysis of the perpetuating factors that set up your clients' pain patterns so you can avoid the same problems returning repeatedly to your treatment room.
Scapular positioning is a term that we use to talk about the normal or at-rest position of the scapula. The scapular stabilizer muscles exist in a carefully orchestrated relationship. Ideally, these muscles will each be at a relatively normal resting length, however it is very common for some fibers to become chronically shortened, and their antagonists to defacilitate and exist in some degree of stretch at all times.
This relationship determines our shoulder posture and degree of pain-free range of motion. Many factors can influence this group of muscles and cause distorted posture. Excessive protraction, producing rounded shoulder posture, is very common and easily can set up taut fibers and trigger points in critical shoulder muscles as the body attempts to stabilize and protect.
At the Coaching the Body Institute, we've developed a scapular positioning treatment approach using bodywork and therapeutic percussion that can be completed typically in 45 minutes or less.
Our treatment is easy to understand, because it analyzes fiber directions and classifies the stabilizers into easily remembered groups of agonist and antagonist. We get fantastic results even with serious conditions like frozen shoulder, and it represents a core part of any therapist's arsenal in treating shoulder pain.
