Embracing Life - Arms & Hands

Course Description:

Whether you are a musician, a gardener or a busy mom or dad just trying to get everything done, you’re always using your arms and hands in everything that you do in your daily life. Even a minor disability to the lower arm including the wrist and hand can have a profound effect on your activities of daily living, known as ADL’s (activities of daily living) in the medical world. We all want to have full and free use of our arms so that we can embrace all the parts of our lives that we most enjoy and in some cases the things we must do just to live. That’s where Body Wisdom’s ‘Embracing Life” - Arm, Wrist, and Hands course steps in to lend a “hand” so to speak. We’ve brought together some of the best-of-the-best techniques and approaches to common issues such as carpal tunnel syndrome, golfers elbow, tennis elbow, and more.

After completing this 8-hour, mini-course you’ll take a fresh new approach back to your practice: Techniques that are both efficient and effective for the client and easy on you as a therapist. In this course you’ll learn to work smart, not hard by using a set of tools and an approach, much like all the other Body Series courses, that work with the least invasive, most efficient tool first and then progressing as necessary; unwinding holding patterns in the most organic and natural way possible. In this ‘packed with technique’ 8-hour course we’ll cover simple hands on assessments combined with highly effective treatment methods to address common complaints encountered in your everyday massage practice.

Remember, these precious arms and hands are the ones we embrace every part of life with. Your clients will thank you again and again.

Prerequisites: Therapeutic Massage Levels 1 – 2, Anatomy: Bones & Muscles or Equivalent

Course Objectives: At the completion of the course, students will know and be able to:

• Assess and address tension and specific conditions of arms, wrists and hands

• Practice a variety of effective techniques to achieve better results with less effort

• Incorporate special techniques for arms, wrists and hands with regular bodywork and massage sessions