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Manual Trigger Point

Includes certificate

Includes certificate

Course Overview

The MTT-1 course features a brief introduction to the history of trigger points and myofascial pain. Many muscles commonly addressed in clinical practice will be addressed, including muscles that Janda considered as ‘tonic’ muscles: the trapezius, levator scapula, posterior neck muscles, sub-occipital muscles, pectoralis major and minor, subclavius, sternalis, coracobrachialis, pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis and ulnaris, palmaris longus, flexor digitorum superficialis and profundus, pronator quadratus, sternocleidomastoid, scalenii, latissimus dorsi, teres major, serratus posterior inferior, quadratus lumborum, iliacus and psoas, tensor fascia lata, sartorius, quadriceps, hamstrings, gastrocnemius, soleus, plantaris, and popliteus muscles, among others. Students will review the anatomy, function, and manual therapy techniques for each muscle.

What You Will Learn

  • Describe optimal musculoskeletal anatomy and physiology and the role of the sensory, motor and autonomic nervous systems; and to differentiate sub-optimal function
  • Describe the aberrant neurophysiology of peripheral and central sensitization
  • Describe the biochemical environment of the trigger point
  • Describe the various mechanisms that perpetuate myofascial trigger points
  • Demonstrate the highest standards of palpation, applicable to most soft tissue abnormalities
  • Describe the use a variety of adjunct myofascial, heat, stretch, muscle play and movement therapies to reinforce the deactivation of these noxious points and return the client to full function
  • Describe normal pain mechanisms; reception, transmission and modulation
  • Describe the contribution of myofascial trigger points to soft tissue pain and dysfunction
  • Identify the various potential causes of myofascial trigger point formation
  • Describe the position of primary or secondary trigger point involvement in many common conditions like osteoarthritis, low back pain and other regional pain syndromes
  • Demonstrate the detection and full de-activation of myofascial trigger points
  • Create appropriate Home Care Exercises (HCA) and other beneficial advice for permanent resolution of myofascial trigger points

Who Should Take Our Courses?

Licensed Healthcare Professionals

Eligibility Requirements: Using manual or hands-on techniques to reduce pain and dysfunction, especially licensed massage therapists (LMT) and branches of that profession, physical therapists (PT) and assistants (PTA), and occupational therapists (OT) and assistants (OTA)

Physical Therapists

Eligibility Requirements: Working in states where dry needling therapy has not been approved.

Physicians and physician assistants

Schedule

08:30 - 10:00  MtrP palpation and deactivation basics Vladimir Janda’s concepts of tonic and phasic muscle relationships
 
10:00 - 10:15  Break
 
10:15 - 12:15  Trapezius, levator scapula
 
12:15 - 13:15  Lunch
 
13:15 - 14:45  Semispinalis capitis / cervicis, the splenii, longissimus capitis, cervical multifidi
 
14:45 - 15:00  Break
 
15:00 - 16:30  Obliquus capitis superior / inferior Rectus capitis posterior major / minor
 
16:30 - 18:00  Pectoralis major, subclavius, sternalis, pectoralis minor, corocobrachialis

08:30 - 10:15  Sternocleidomastoid, scalenii
 
10:15 - 10:30  Break
 
10:30 - 12:15  Latissimus dorsi, teres major, Ser. Post. Inf. quadratus lumborum
 
12:15 - 13:15  Lunch
 
13:15 - 14:45  Iliacus, psoas Tensor fascia lata
 
14:45 - 15:00  Break
 
15:00 - 16:30  Sartorius, vastus medialis, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis, rectus femoris
 
16:30 - 18:00  Pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus, flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor digitorum sup. / profundus, pronator quadratus

08:30 - 10:15  Biceps femoris, semimembranosis / semitendinosis
 
10:15 - 10:30  Break
 
10:30 - 12:15  Gastrocnemius, soleus, plantaris, popliteus
 
12:15 - 13:15  Lunch
 
13:15 - 14:30Competency Quiz containing 20 short answer questions
14:30 - 14:45Break
14:45 - 16:00  Tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, flexor hallucis longus, anterior compartment, lateral compartment, sinus tarsi and dorsal interossei
 
16:00 - 17:00  Intrinsic plantar foot muscle

Instructors

Rick Young

PT, MPT, CODN, CMTPT, Assistant Instructor

Rick graduated in 1985 from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. In 1992, he completed a Master of Physical Therapy from Temple University in Philadelphia. He has been practicing full time for 25 years in various environments including acute care, onsite workers’ compensation, and outpatient physical therapy holding managerial as well as staff positions.

Samantha Porter

LMT, CMTPT, Assistant Instructor

Samantha graduated from Truman State University in 2012 with a Bachelors degree in Exercise Science. She became a licensed massage therapist and a Certified Manual Trigger Point Therapist in 2016. Ms. Porter is currently in the process of completing her physical therapy prerequisites and hopes to begin working toward her Doctorate degree in 2019. With her Doctorate degree, Ms. Porter hopes to further her knowledge of Trigger Point Therapy and human nutrition.

Stewart Wild

LMT, CNMT, CMTPT, Senior Instructor

Stew was born in New Zealand and became the first person to certify in the St. John version of Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT) at the New Zealand College of Massage (NZCM) in Auckland, NZ. He became an NMT instructor in 1998. In 2004 Stewart relocated to the US and double-certified in the “American Version” of NMT. In 2009, Stewart became the first massage therapist to become a Certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist through Myopain Seminars. Stewart is the principal developer of the manual trigger point therapy course program.

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