Trigger Points & Women’s Health
Please Note:
After more than 20 years of presenting live classroom workshops, I have decided to shift my primary focus to online education. Going forward, my workshops will be offered as live Zoom events, making it easier for participants to attend from anywhere while reducing the time and expense associated with travel.
I will continue to offer in-person workshops for professional organizations, clinics, or associations that can organize a group of at least eight participants. This allows me to continue providing hands-on instruction where there is sufficient interest while dedicating more time to developing high-quality online learning opportunities.
I also remain available for individual consultations by phone or video conference for practitioners seeking personalized guidance, case discussions, or clinical support.
In addition, I am available for consultations with individuals experiencing ongoing pain or other persistent symptoms who are looking for expert assessment, education, and guidance in managing their condition.
Trigger Points & Women’s Health
Attendees discover that there’s much more to Trigger Point Therapy than simply following an illustration to inactivate a specific TrP.
Our CE workshops are known around the world for their high standard of instruction and comprehensive approach.
Our instructors have thoroughly studied and practiced (over many years) the seminal work of Drs. Janet Travell and David Simons.
This 6 hour, CE workshop is suitable for currently practicing massage therapists, yoga therapists, bodyworkers, physiotherapists, fitness and health professionals who desire some in-depth instruction on locating and treating workshop-related myofascial trigger points.
This workshop specifically addresses symptoms that many women present with, such as:
- cycle related migraine and/or headache
- bladder issues (urgency, frequency, leakage, nocturia),
- painful periods (dysmenorrhea),
- painful intercourse dyspareunia,
- bowel symptoms (including IBS),
- pregnancy-related pain (e.g. back pain), and more.
The muscles we will examine –
We will be locating and treating TrPs in the trapezius, sternocleidomastoid, temporalis, pectoralis major, quadratus lumborum, rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, and external obliques. Attendees will also practice palpation techniques to discover and treat TrPs in the hip adductors, and gluteal muscles.
We’ll also discuss (no palpation) how to treat intrapelvic and pelvic floor TrPs, and their effects on the pelvic/genital/rectal and urinary tract area.
- detailed palpation techniques of muscles for trigger points, manual compression treatment techniques, post-treatment protocol, latent/active TrPs, contraindications.
- demonstrate how TrPs play a major role in common symptoms we treat such as headaches, migraine, groin pain, IBS, diarrhea/constipation, loss of appetite (anorexia), levator ani syndrome and proctalgia fugax. As well we will cover female-specific symptoms that include; breast pain, dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation), dyspareunia (painful intercourse), bladder symptoms, urinary tract symptoms and pregnancy related symptoms.
- discuss the muscles that play a causal role in these issues – and how to deactivate the involved trigger points.
- demonstrate how exercise affects trigger points in these muscles.
- protocol for rehabilitating the TrP affected muscle.
- the effects of heat/ice on TrPs.
- how stress, medications, over-use, trauma and skeletal abnormalities affect TrPs.
Course duration: 6 hours.
Certificate of Completion will be issued
