Big Tree Manual Therapy

presents

The Art of Physical Medicine

By Christopher Shining Star Man Michels MSPT, JSCC

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Module I – Foundations: Spine & Ribs
Where presence and manual medicine meet.

Bringing presence, confidence, and effectiveness to your sessions.

This manual therapy class will offer multi-conceptual approaches including:

• Building a comprehensive assessment skillset.
• Plenty of hands-on practice for kinesthetic skill development.
• Gentle and effective methods for releasing tension and restoring function.
• Supervised clinic to hone your new skills. (Treating residents of Rose Villa on the 3rd day)

3-day immersive experience offers:

– Exercises to cultivate presence to help you quickly develop a good rapport and trust with your clients.
– Grounding practices to create a safe and comforting space for your clients to release and heal.
– How to locate and correct significant spinal and rib restrictions that cause common complaints.
– Skills to improve your proficiency in spinal segmental anatomy.
– Recognizing what muscle actions are weak and how to rapidly restore their strength.
– Restoring motion to stiff and painful joints throughout the body with ease and creativity.
– Building confidence with your palpation skills.
– A workbook with charts included to enhance your learning of how irritation of the spinal nerve roots can cause muscle, joint, and bone pain throughout the body.

Christopher Shining Star Man Michels MSPT, JSCC

Chris has over 23 years of experience as a Physical Therapist, is a board-certified Strain Counterstrain specialist and Brennan Healing Science practitioner. Chris continues to educate himself, research, and weave together his knowledge of the healing arts to best serve his clients and has a passion for teaching others how to make impactful changes in other people’s lives.