HEADACHE & CONCUSSION

 

Many who suffer from headaches have histories of high intensity impact to the the neck and head including from MVA’s, extreme sport, other acute trauma, long term, low grade deforming impacts, and more. While these patients may vary in headache presentation, they often share a common thread of excessive force and subsequent compression to the structures of the face, head, neck, jaw and cervical spine.

 

Even skillful massage often leads to temporary results, due to muscle dominant treatments that only affect certain contributors to the problem. The most effective treatments use a range of palpatory approaches with a variety of  structures, differentiate types of tenderness, grades and causes of hypertonicity, and their contributions at different segments.

 

We’ll learn an array of soft tissue techniques and approaches to release locked in, compressive forces from the cervical spine, jaws, face and cranium, differentiating, and minimizing these forces on chronic headache presentations. Assessment and techniques focus on myofascia, joints, sutures, and bones, with special focus on the upper cerivcal spine and cranial helmet. We will also rule in or rule out contributions from the thorax and below and look at treatments to address them, when relevant.

Instructor: Joseph Rodin is a licensed massage therapist, psychotherapist, and certified Trager® practitioner. His somatic background includes intensive study of Trager®, along with extensive coursework in osteopathic inspired manual therapy methods. Joseph took his first Trager® course in 1995 and returned to later to become certified in 2010. Since then, he has taught numerous Trager® introductory classes, mentored with and assisted senior Trager® instructors, been a Trager® Tutor and is the past President of the US Trager® Association and past member of the Board of Directors for Trager International. He’s presented on Trager and TMJ at Trager Conferences live, virtually, and for the Tragerology organization.

Discount: Bring a friend discount: $25. Coupon code: frnd. Enter friend or colleague’s name when registering.