BTI Continuing Education Workshops
Assessing & Treating the 10 Most Common Injuries
with Ben Benjamin, PhD
October 19-21, 2012 | Friday-Saturday, 9:00am-5:30pm; Sunday, 9:00am-4:00pm
21 continuing education contact hours | $450 | practitioners only
This workshop is designed by Dr. Ben Benjamin to help massage therapists and bodyworkers assess and treat specific injuries that challenge and frustrate most practitioners. The workshop provides training in anatomy, assessment tests, treatment techniques, and client home exercises for most typical injuries associated with ten common musculoskeletal complaints. You will learn how to find the exact source of a client's pain and effectively treat the injury
In this workshop, you will:
- Learn a foundation of assessment tools and orthopedic tests to identify or rule out specific soft-tissue injuries
- Distinguish actual injuries from chronic muscle tension
- Acquire a precise and consistent means of evaluation
- Improve your accuracy in identifying and addressing injuries, resulting in more effective and successful treatment with your clients
| Area of Pain | Common Related Injury |
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| Shoulder/Upper Arm | Subscapularis tendonitis | |
| Elbow | Tennis elbow | |
| Neck/Scapula | TP 7 ligament injuries | |
| Low Back | Iliolumbar ligament sprain | |
| Anterior Knee | Patella tendonitis | |
| Ankle | Lateral ankle sprain | |
| Shoulder Joint | Frozen shoulder/Traumatic arthritis | |
| Low Back/Buttock/Leg | Sacrotuberous ligament sprain | |
| Medial Knee | Medial collateral ligament sprain | |
| Foot/Lower Leg | Achilles tendon strain |
Ben E. Benjamin has dedicated his life to helping people cope with and overcome the pain and stress caused by injury to the body. His therapeutic techniques help reduce and eliminate pain produced by adhesive scar tissue formed from soft tissue injury.
In sports medicine/muscular therapy private practice since 1963, Dr. Benjamin is the founder and former President of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA. As an educator and author, he has conducted seminars and workshops across the country, served as an instructor and trainer in a variety of settings, and written several books and countless articles. His books include: Listen to Your Pain: The Active Person's Guide to Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Pain and Injury; Are You Tense?: The Benjamin System of Muscular Therapy; Exercise Without Injury.
His professional training and education spans more than three decades. He earned a Ph.D. in Sports Medicine and Education at Union Graduate School; a Bachelor of Professional Sciences at Empire State College; and studied assessment techniques in Orthopedic Medicine with the well-known British Physician, James Cyriax, M.D. He is a 2010 inductee into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame.
Dr. Benjamin continues with his mission to offer his innovative therapy techniques to help enhance the quality of life for as many people as possible - to help people not simply manage their pain, but to be freed from it.
Click here to learn about online webinars from the Benjamin Institute.