Structural Essentials: Tensegrity Spine (Dec 04 - 05, 2027)

Structural Essentials: Tensegrity Spine is organized by Anatomy Trains and will be held from Dec 04 - 05, 2027 at The Wellness Institute of Chester County. Massage Therapy School, Exton, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Description:
The Structural Essential series is a set of intensive soft-tissue technique courses divided into functional regions. Combining movement and manual techniques for the most efficient and long-lasting results, and using the latest research on the interaction between skeleton, muscles, joints, and fascial proprioceptors, this series of workshops will take you to a new level in therapy.

Designed with the busy manual therapist in mind, each Structural Essentials event gives you a new understanding of the relevant area. The content will outline how the structural and functional anatomy relates to many common issues as well as to the rest of the body. Based on many new and established approaches this series will give you the skills in palpation, BodyReading and functional analysis needed for the modern multidisciplinary therapist.

Tensegrity Spine:
This course examines the spine as a tensegrity truss – how the bones float within the myofascial balance. An integral part of structure we all know the agonizing effects of incorrect mechanics when it doesn’t work and often fail to appreciate the wonderfully adaptive job it does when the vertebrae are allowed to ‘float’.

We will look at the actions available at each of the sections (lumbar, thoracic and cervical) of the spine and how they may lead to certain dysfunctional patterns. By putting the spine into context with the surrounding structures we can better understand the reasons for its limitations and its wondrous abilities.

Once we explain the logic pattern the soft-tissue patterns that surround the spine then through the assessment and learning our techniques for freeing and balancing them you will be able to address many structural and functional issues in the spine.

You will be able to treat the following:

• balancing lordosis and kyphosis
• lateral curvatures
• rotations (and opposite rotations)
• supporting structures at the front and back of the spine
• balancing the spinal column with respect to the cervical spine and the sacrum