1-day Therapeutic w/ Marie-Jose Blom

SmartSpine Therapeutic - (1 day; 9-6pm)
From Core Ability to Optimal Mobility: Introducing a fresh and multidisciplinary approach to “Core Up-training”

This skill specific introduction to the somatic SmartSpine technique offers the therapist practical tools to instruct and teach the patient – tools that allow the therapist to be creative and effective while introducing the feel of the exercise and not just the exercise. This approach imparts a lasting impression that the patient takes home and motivates them to further practice and integrate exercise into normal daily functions.

The SmartSpine tools for the therapist become a third hand; while improving efficiency, they are also tools that encourage a “whole body” approach vs. compartmentalization. The SmartSpine approach restores mobility and encourages transformation by learning to connect using all of the senses.

Objectives:

• Introducing an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to “Core Up-training”
• “Feeling is Knowing”
• The practical application of somatic/sensory learning through the SmartSpine system
• Optimization of tactile and verbal cuing into whole body awareness of the patient

Bibliography:

• Muscles and Meridians: The Manipulation of Shape, Phillip Beach - ISBN-10: 0702031097
• The Pelvic Girdle, Diane Lee – ISBN-10: 0443073732
• Anatomy of Breathing, Blandine Calais-Germain – ISBN-10: 0939616556
• Core Intelligence, Marie-Jose Blom – 2002
• Movement, Stability & Lumbopelvic Pain, Andry Vleeming – ISBN-10: 0443101787

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