Assessing & Treating the Ten Most Common Injuries

with Ben Benjamin, PhD

July 25-27 | Friday-Sunday, 9:30am-5:30pm
21 continuing education contact hours | $425 | 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
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 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; and 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.

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.

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