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           Seminar 3:

    Acute Low Back Pain       		             

When people are in severe pain, they want only one thing, to get out of pain of course. This is a workshop that teaches you the skills and strategies that enable you to treat the client with severe low back pain. 

Have you ever been confronted with a client in severe pain who was unable to stand up straight?

In this workshop you will learn how to reduce severe acute pain and muscle spasm. You will also learn how to evaluate and correct postural deformities that occur due to acute pain and muscle spasm. This technique alone is worth the price of admission to the seminar many times over!

Are you at times bewildered by the cause of low back pain in your client? Do you have questions about whom you should treat and when you should refer your client to a chiropractor, DO or MD?

This workshop will teach you a simplified classification system that will help you decide what treatments will be effective with your clients. This classification system will help you decide where to focus your therapies and when to seek assistance from another practitioner in treating your client. You will be able to sort out cases of low back pain from the benign to the serious.

This is what you will learn in this Seminar

  • An organized approach to treating the client with severe low back pain
  • The etiology of acute, severe low back pain
  • Neuromuscular Therapy treatments to reduce muscle spasm
  • Pain Relieving Movement Therapy
  • Spinal Hygiene- easing pain while moving correctly
  • Red flags that signal dangerous cases of low back pain
  • The Low Back Classification System to guide treatment and referral

In short, this workshop will provide you with a solid framework of knowledge and skills in treating acute severe low back pain. This is a one-day workshop and is jam packed with well-organized practical treatment techniques.


The cost of low back pain in terms of human suffering, lost productivity and lost time from work is truly staggering. Here are some statistics: In 1990, Spine Care in San Francisco, CA (a leading group of orthopedic spine surgeons) pointed out that of the approximately 250,000 back surgeries performed in the U.S. annually, 90% could be prevented. It is estimated that between 60% and 90% of the total population has low back pain during their lifetime. Low back pain clearly represents the single and greatest inefficient expenditure of health care resources in our society today.

And here is the worst bit of news. Once a person gets low back pain, the chances of them getting it again are close to 100 %.  It is a chronic recurrent problem that is there for life. That is, if they do nothing to fundamentally correct the cause of the problem.

The most common treatments for low back pain are still rest and medication. Neither of these treatments does anything to prevent the reoccurrence of low back pain because they do nothing to correct the cause of the problem.

Competent soft tissue therapists treat the cause of low back pain.

Low back pain can be effectively treated by balancing the muscles in the low back, abdominal and pelvic/hip regions and re-educating the nervous system that controls these muscles. Basically that is all that is involved. This corrects the cause of the problem.

Have you heard conflicting opinions about what exercises are best for the back?

You will learn therapeutic exercise regimens for the low back client including the most up to date techniques for strengthening the deep abdominal wall muscles and key spinal stabilizers. These techniques surpass Yoga, Pilates and other core training programs because of their thoroughness, attention to detail and especially their specific adaptations for your low back clients. This information alone is worth the price of admission into the seminar.

Many of your clients suffer with occasional, frequent and some with constant low back pain. Why shouldn’t you be the one to help them through it? This is a one-day intensive loaded with practical hands on information.

Here is what you will learn in this Chronic Low Back Pain Seminar.

  • To evaluate muscles for tightness and  weakness
  • Myofascial techniques to lengthen tight muscles and fascia
  • Assisted stretching for Iliopsoas, Adductors, Hamstrings, Erector 
  • Assisted stretching for Erector Spinae and Quadratus Lumborum
  • Reprogram the nervous system that controls the low back muscles and joints.
  • Corrective exercise and movement therapy for the low back

In addition

  • Learn the natural history and pathogenesis of low back pain
  • Marketing your services to low back clients

There is no other seminar available directed to massage therapists that will give you as much knowledge of low back pain. You are going to learn so much more than just more massage strokes. You will learn other techniques and you will understand when and how to apply them. You will learn how to manage a low back pain case. You will be a results getting practitioner!