Introducing CTB for Upper Body Pain
Transform Your Practice with a Proven, Revolutionary Approach to Treating Shoulder and Neck Pain
Take the guesswork out of unraveling complex shoulder issues - get consistent, lasting results and explode your referrals
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Resolve Shoulder and Neck Pain Quickly by Understanding the Root Cause
Our Flagship Practitioner Course for Shoulder and Neck Pain
Available for the First Time Outside of the CTB Membership
Shoulder pain is reaching epidemic proportions, and if you're reading this, chances are you're on the front lines, fighting a battle that seems unwinnable. You've seen it all—clients walking in with their hopes high and leaving with only fleeting relief. It's not just frustrating; it's heartbreaking.
You entered the world of manual therapy with a mission: to heal, to relieve pain, and to transform lives. Yet, the journey from aspiration to reality is often fraught with hurdles.
We've been there. Our courses, based on 20 years of clinical practice and research, have already given thousands of students more treatment mastery and referrals than they ever dreamed possible.
>> Yes! Tell me what's includedYour Goals, Our Mission
Our Coaching The Body® for Upper Body Pain course is meticulously designed to equip you with innovative techniques that address pain at its root, ensuring you can fulfill your primary mission with every client that walks through your door.
Maintaining Your Physical Health and Well-being
To give your best, you need to be your best. Our techniques are designed with the therapist's well-being in mind, promoting longevity in your practice by teaching methods informed by Chuck's background in movement and martial arts that are as gentle on your body as they are effective.
Growing Your Client Base - Naturally and Easily
Success isn't just about numbers; it's about impact. By mastering unique, effective treatment methods, your practice will become a beacon for those seeking relief, naturally driving referrals and expanding your reach. Become the expert PainHacker that other therapists and MDs refer to.
Providing Effective and Lasting Treatments
Transient relief is not our philosophy. We delve deep into the science of pain and a new, systems-oriented look at trigger point therapy and neuroscience, empowering you with strategies that offer long-term relief, enhancing client satisfaction and driving fierce loyalty.
My Journey of Discovery
My name is Chuck Duff, and I know these challenges well - because I’ve been through it myself. I trained in the late 90’s as a Thai massage practitioner, and when I started out, I had mixed results. I quickly realized that the injury-focused medical model was a terrible framework for actually understanding how to help my clients.
It was disheartening to have to support my family while feeling that I wasn’t able to consistently help people in the ways that I had in mind when I changed careers. Diagnoses intimidated me, and nothing I had studied helped me understand the origins of my clients’ shoulder pain.
The truth is, our medical system is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to understanding pain. Throw away the notion of "itis" and injury; these are just surface-level distractions. The real culprit? Muscles and the elusive trigger points within them.
After 20 years in the trenches of clinical practice and research, I've cracked the code. Combining the ancient wisdom of Thai massage with the precision of trigger point therapy and the cutting-edge insights of modern neuroscience, I’ve been fortunate to create a weapon so powerful in combating pain, it's proven to be nothing short of revolutionary: Coaching The Body®.
What do others think?
Josh Sturgis, DC
"I am a chiropractor and I have been getting through the modules as fast as I can. I have gotten the best results with shoulders I've ever gotten. I just need to continue learning and getting that protocol down."
Charlie Peebles, LMT, MAT, Instructor
Chuck has some excellent training for frozen shoulder syndrome and using his ML/percussion therapy tool makes a HUGE difference in the speed at which you can help coach-the-body back to homeostasis!!! Chuck Duff has a lot of excellent trainings that can help you change your MT/manual therapy practice!!! Check this out!!!
Gretchen Popp, LMT
I’ve been using the knowledge and protocols for weeks but just with my massage skills. This client has a mildly torn rotator cuff and she LOVED the Muscle Liberator! Can’t wait to use it again! I had her in for an hour session but after 15 min of work with the ML I felt with my hands and I was like “I really don’t need to do anything more…”
Inside CTB for Upper Body Pain
32 NCBTMB-Approved CE Credits
Our course isn't just about earning CE credits; it's a journey of cutting-edge professional growth, ensuring you stay at the forefront of therapeutic innovation.
MODULE 1
Introduction to CTB, Reference Manuals
Learn how trigger points cause dysfunction in the muscle pairings controlling the position and motion of the scapula. Use bodywork and therapeutic percussion to allow the scapula to move freely again. Download our Core Protocol and Muscle Manuals for Upper Body Pain - fantastic references for your library.
MODULE 2
Neck and Scapular Muscles Anatomy and Treatment
Functional anatomy, trigger point characteristics of the critical muscles setting up shoulder posture and ROM. Pec major/minor, serratus anterior, trapezius, rhomboids, levator scapulae, scalenes, treatment for relevant neck muscles and full coverage of the CTB Scapular Positioning Protocol.
MODULE 3
Glenohumeral Muscles Anatomy and Treatment
After we normalize scapular movement, we can fruitfully treat the rotator cuff and associated muscles. Your shoulder treatments will be far more successful when you understand how this group depends on normal shoulder posture and unhindered scapular range. Don't make the mistakes of simplistic trigger point therapy, treating one or two rotator cuff muscles and expecting to get resuilts.
MODULE 4
Muscles of the Arm and Neck Anatomy and Treatment
Discover the critical role of muscles like the scalenes, serratus posterior superior, biceps and triceps as powerful, hidden sources of referred shoulder pain. Learn to detect and correct patterns of dysfunctional breathing as perpetuators of shoulder pain via breathing-sensitive muscles like scalenes and levator.
MODULE 5
CTB Core Protocol for the Upper Body
The Core Protocol for Upper Body distills our decades of clinical experience into an invaluable treatment roadmap that you can easily execute in a 60-90 minute session. The Core Protocol focuses on the muscles that are most likely to have an impact, allowing you to have a high rate of success early in your studies, leading to more referrals from happier clients.
MODULE 6
Frozen Shoulder Protocol, Perpetuating Factors and Self-Care
No need to be intimidated by so-called frozen shoulder syndrome - learn to have the same consistent success with frozen shoulder cases as we do. Discover and correct the hidden factors that perpetuate your clients' pain, and get access to a library of self-care techniques to give your shoulder clients between sessions.
Do you really want to keep hitting the same dead ends...
Why settle when you could become the shoulder pain rockstar to your clients, who will gladly pay you more and send you referrals in gratitude for REAL HELP?
What You Get As A Student
As an Upper Body student, you'll have an opportunity to upgrade to the full CTB Membership and Muscle Liberator™ at a discount.
28 Hours of Self-Paced Video Lessons
You will own an exhaustive video library covering functional anatomy, treatment, self-care and assessments that you can study at your own pace on the wonderful, user-friendly Kajabi course platform. Retain lifetime access and review at your leisure.
Access to the CTB Members Mastermind
Join our Kajabi PainHackers community and share client questions, ask questions of faculty, clarify issues that come up during your studies. Join our periodic live events in which we present on relevant topics and take questions.
Slides and Downloads
Access slides and materials for each lesson, as well as the CTB Core Protocol Manual for the Upper Body and the CTB Muscle Manual.
List Your Practice in Our PainHackers Directory
Become qualified as a CTB Shoulder Specialist by passing the final test, and become eligible for a listing in our sought-after PainHackers Directory, a locally searchable listing of qualified CTB practitioners. We get requests every day for referrals to competent CTB therapists.
