Soft Tissue Therapy Conference 2008. 13hrs in a 3 DVD PACK

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Bringing together the most effective, most influential, and most sought after Remedial Massage and Soft Tissue Therapists presenters in Australia is a big call, but, well worth the effort.  What you see in this 3 DISC DVD set is the highlights of more than 15 hours of presentations, discussions, and questions - it is a truly vigorous educational experience.

AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR ALL SERIOUS THERAPISTS

The 2008 SOFT TISSUE THERAPY Conference provides expert speakers on musculoskeletal conditions, assessment procedures, treatment options, working with elite sport, and getting your head around running a busy practice, in our industry.

Brad Hiskins - The Stork Test - How to perform it correctly and what your findings mean in a clinical setting. With 11 years experience at the Australian Institute of Sport and three Olympics, two Commonwealth Games and 14 World Championships for a variety of professional sports, Brad is an experienced campaigner in Sports STT. He is the current Head of Service for the 2008 Beijing Games and the brains behind www.softtissuetherapy.com.au

Brad focuses his presentation on the Stalk Test, it's relevance to the pelvis, how to treat it, and it's implications.

Dr Judith May - Red Flags - When things just don't add up, what should you do ? Find out how Judith applies her unique brand of clinical reasoning, on a case-by case basis, to uncover some nasty conditions parading as muscular pain. Dr Judith May is the current Sports Physician with the Australian Triathlon Team and will be travelling with the elite team to the Beijing Olympic Games. Judith deals primarily with sporting injuries and has immense experience in this area. Judith enlightens us on Medical conditions masquerading as medical pathologies. This topic will highlight red flags and subtle pathological changes that should alert the STT when to refer.  

James Walsh - Posture Related Pain and Dysfunction - What do you see when you watch someone walking ? Find out what a keen, expert observer sees. James is a soft tissue therapist with twenty years experience in the health and fitness industry. Over the past decade he has been practicing and teaching an integrated approach to physical health combining soft tissue techniques and corrective exercise with a particular interest in the relationship between movement, exercise and musculoskeletal injury. James currently practices in Sydney specialising in posture related pain and dysfunction.

James Barker - Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome - Find out why James is so successful at treating "Shin Splints" ?  James graduated from CIT 5 years ago and has been working in clinical practice since then. As a previous competitive middle distance runner for 23 years he combines his personal experience and interest in lower limb injuries on treatment for medial tibial stress syndrome. James practices in Canberra with a particular interest in running related injuries.

Geoff Walker - Is our industry progressive or are we in a free-fall from which we can not recover? Geoff is Director of "Massage Time" and "in8 Health" - both successful Sydney-based clinics.  He is an author for the Soft Tissue Therapy Electronic Magazine (STT eMag) and has lectured for TAFE NSW for many years.  As well as this, Geoff has been instrumental in developing teaching and assessment resources / strategies for many years at TAFE NSW's Curriculum Development Centre. Geoff is passionate about the future of our industry and presents on issues regarding our past, present, and future. 

Tricia Jenkins - "The pain is all in your head" or is it ? . . . Tricia explores and explains how our thoughts affect our treatments and how a clients thoughts affect their clinical outcomes. Tricia Jenkins has been a Soft Tissue Therapist (STT) working in both a sports & remedial capacity for 20 years.  As well as running her own practices in Sydney for over 12 years and working with many NSW sporting teams she has been traveling with the Australian Women's Softball team since 1999, Australian Swimming Team since 2004. She was STT with the Australian Olympic Team for Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Commonwealth Games team for Melbourne 2006 and will be part of the team again for Beijing 2008. Tricia always has always been fascinated by how the mind works and the mind body connection so she continually studies Kinesiology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).  Tricia is a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP and Master Results Coach.  She has clients for personal performance coaching and Soft Tissue Therapy as well as teaching NLP for weight control & Therapists.

Peter Garbutt - When Do We Need To Refer To A Chiropractor ? Peter cuts through politics and gets down to bare facts. Pete Garbutt is an experienced sports chiropractor and head of Sports Chiropractic Australia. He is also a board member for Sports Medicine Australia and runs a busy Chiropractic and Soft Tissue Therapy business. Peter is a well rehearsed speaker and will discuss what happens in a chiropractic adjustment, why it might be necessary and some of the signs that a soft tissue therapist should be looking for in order to refer their client for an adjustment. Pete will also cover the safety of chiropractic adjustments and some of the latest research on cervical manipulation and strokes. 

Andrew Curry - Andrew's approach condenses clinical experience, observation skills, and advanced anatomy skills to guideyou through Assessment, Treatment and Strengthening for Optimal Pelvic Stability . Andrew studied at the CIT in Canberra before setting up in private practice in Goulburn in 2001.  During this time he has also worked at the Australian Institute of Sport, and traveled with AIS swimming and the Australian Rowing team, prior to the Athens Olympics in 2004. In 2006/2007 he studied to be a Pilates Instructor.  He integrates Pilates with his Soft Tissue Therapy practice.  This combination provides clients with great treatment options to more effectively treat their musculoskeletal problems.   Andrew's broad base of knowledge has recently been utilised to offer injury prevention programs for companies looking to prevent injury in the workplace.  He has a special interest in anatomy and feels that continued learning in this field improves his practice.

Kelly Townsend - A true gem in our industry. Would you like to turn $1,000,000 in your massage clinic ? Kelly explains how !   Kelly completed her massage studies 11 years ago at the Australian Institute of Applied Sciences. Her own interest in Sports and Remedial massage stems from her 3 year scholarship as an athlete at the Australian Institute of Sport Squash program. Following that, she was heavily involved with the Qld Reds Rugby Union and travelled internationally with the squad to South Africa and New Zealand . "No More Knots" is a massage company that began more than 8 years ago and has now grown to having more than 20 fantastic staff in a building that is a purpose and designed built clinic. Road cycling and Mountain biking are now her chosen recreational outlets.

Jo Smith - Step 1 in our industry; find out why people come to our clinics. If we know why, we can work to those strengths. Jo is asking, and more importantly, documenting why clients come to us. This presentation outlines her exciting progress so far ! Jo developed and teaches in the Bachelor of Therapeutic and Sports Massage programme at the Southern Institute of Technology- the first such programme in the Southern Hemisphere.  She is a massage therapist,  educator and PhD candidate at the University of Otago .  Her recent research interests have focused on contributing factors to client comfort in a massage therapy setting.   Her PhD research is focused on why clients choose massage therapy and what they value in the therapeutic interaction and outcomes to return to massage therapy.

Stewart Condie - Specificity and Sensitivity of Orthopedic Testing. Are we really relying on some of these tests that are just plain wrong! Stewart completed his initial training in Geelong in 1996 as a Remedial Massage Therapist and has since gone on to complete his Myotherapytraining at RMIT, where he is currently the Program Coordinator of Complementary Therapies. Stewart has also completed his Acupuncture degree and practices and teaches MYOFASCIAL DRY NEEDLING. Stewart has a special interest in the current educational standards of remedial massage therapy (Competency Based) and also has a Post Grad qualifications in Education.

Note
Whilst every effort has been made to faithfully record the entire proceedings of the 2008 Soft Tissue Therapy Conference, portions of the DVD have been affected by poor lighting and / or poor sound quality. Where sound quality has been preserved, but some of the video quality has been compromised, those portions remain in the presentation, as the information is of value from an auditory perspective.

Price: $84.95AUD $20.00AUD

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