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This course covers the analysis, assessments and treatment for addressing the most common upper body complaints seen in clinical practice.

Coaching the Body™ provides a unique and powerful framework for understanding and addressing  the true origins of pain. Over the last 15 years, CTBI founder Chuck Duff has integrated an updated understanding of trigger point therapy (Trigger Point 2.0) with techniques from Thai and other bodywork styles and current neuroscience into this revolutionary approach to pain.

You will learn to address the most common types of shoulder, upper back and neck pain by understanding the role of proper scapular positioning, the various muscular sources that can feed the upper body with satellite referral, key functional relationships, perpetuating factors for upper body pain, and key treatment modules for the most important muscles in this area.

There is a relatively small set of muscles and relationships that set up a high percentage of upper body complaints. This course prepares you to design and execute effective treatments for most of the upper body cases that you will see in practice.

This course is valuable for massage therapists, yoga teachers, physical therapists, trainers and anyone looking for deep insight about the true origins of upper body pain. The concepts are continued and refined in our Clinical Core for Upper Body 2 course.

This course provides a full protocol for addressing the most common upper body complaints seen in clinical practice. Student will learn to address shoulder, upper back and neck pain by understanding the role of proper scapular positioning, the various muscular sources that can feed the upper body with satellite referral, perpetuating factors for upper body pain, and key treatment modules for the most important muscles in this area. There is a relatively small set of muscles and relationships that set up a high percentage of complaints. This course prepares you to design and execute effective treatments for most of the upper body cases that you will see.

This class builds the student's repertoire of techniques from traditional Thai bodywork and other modalities with the goal of working with specific issues of pain and dysfunction.  Many of the techniques are derived from the traditional northern style sequence as taught at the Old Medicine Hospital in Chiang Mai, but taught in a unique sequence that teaches muscle relationships and maximizes treatment effectiveness. We teach the traditional techniques as a means to achieving specific therapeutic benefits, with a depth of information about neuromuscular effects for each technique that is unmatched in the bodywork field. This course focuses on techniques and stretches for the lower body.

This course introduces the techniques and principals of Coaching The Body (CTB), a modality developed by Chuck Duff that blends the techniques of Thai yoga massage with the insights of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy, acupoint work and a structural analysis of body function.  Within this course students will learn the principles of muscle dysfunction and become versed in the standard CTB treatment cycle, including both manual techniques and those using the EPS and Muscle Liberator. Students will also be given a basic understanding of how CTB assesses for the most common perpetuating factors including lateral asymmetry (leg length/hemi-pelvic discrepancy), hyperpronation and breathing dysfunction. 

This course is part of the CTB Specialist Certification and the CTB Practitioner Certification.