In-Person Seminar
Stress, Movement & Pain
How safe do you feel, right now, in your body?
Whether you practice in outpatient, inpatient, acute care, orthopedics or neurology, nearly all your patients are experiencing stress and it is fundamentally affecting how they move and perceive the world and themselves. This seminar is designed to advance clinical competence in working with the neuromusculoskeletal issues centered around the neuroscience of stress, trauma, and movement through the application of current clinical evidence.
We will identify the relationship between threat perception, the autonomic nervous system, the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis, and movement to create a foundation for proper intervention. This foundation will then be used to develop assessment and treatment approaches to pathology associated with stress and movement.
Designed for the clinician not interested in the status quo; you will learn how to improve your patient outcomes regardless of specialty or condition because the science of stress, perception, and movement is foundational to all human experience.
What is this Course?
You will learn about how stress and trauma influences movement, induces inflammation, produces and perpetuates pain. You will learn manual techniques, movement interventions, and ways to interview and interact with clients in new ways that you’ve likely not seen before and will get to experience firsthand how it actually feels to let go of stress and pain yourself as over half of the 2-day course is hands-on experiential learning.
Who is this Course for?
This course is for anyone who works with other people: physical therapists, occupational therapists, athletic trainers, massage therapists, physicians, psychotherapists, coaches, personal trainers. If you treat or coach people, they’re likely stressed and would benefit from this work.
We also offer a discounted rate for students in graduate-level coursework.
STRESS, MOVEMENT & PAIN
Course Outline
Day 1
8:00 – Registration
8:30 – Stress and Self-Regulation
9:30 – BREAK
9:45 – Autonomic Foundations of Stress
11:00 – LAB: Autonomic Assessment
12:00 – LUNCH (on your own)
1:00 – Brain, Stress, and Behavior
1:45 – Supporting Safety and Regulation:
Touch and Interoception
3:00 – BREAK
3:15 – LAB: Manual Thoracoabdominal Techniques –
Clinical Application
4:00 – LAB: Manual Cranial Techniques –
Clinical Application
4:45 – LAB: Manual Grounding Techniques –
Clinical Application
5:30 – Adjourn
Day 2
8:00 – Pain and Prediction
9:30 – BREAK
10:15 – Effects of Threat and Stress on Movement
12:00 – LUNCH (on your own)
1:00 – Creating an Environment of Safety
1:45 – LAB: Vagal Stimulation
2:30 – LAB: Intro to Teaching Embodied Movement
3:00 – BREAK
3:15 – LAB: Teaching Embodied Movement – Clinical Application
4:00 – How to Use Techniques and Protocols in Your Clinical Setting
4:30 – Q/A, Course Evaluation
5:00 – Adjourn
STRESS, MOVEMENT & PAIN
Dates and Locations
April 13-14, 2019
Flagstaff, Arizona
Northern Arizona University
Health Professions Building #66
208 E Pine Knoll Dr, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
NAU
May 4-5, 2019
Denver, Colorado
Ethos Colorado Training Facility
11465 W I-70 Frontage Road North
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
NAU
June 22-23, 2019
Greenville, South Carolina
St. Francis Therapy Center at Millenium
2 Innovation Drive
Greenville, SC 29607
NAU
September 21-22, 2019
Boston, Massachusetts
Central Mass Physical Therapy & Wellness
354 West Boylston St., Suite 111
West Boylston, MA 01583
NAU
2020 Course Locations Coming Soon
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What People Are Saying
” Seth’s seminar has given me the understanding and tools to help individuals in a way that no other has done, even better that what is taught does not conflict with other methods but instead compliments. It is one of the best continuing education opportunities I have taken in the 11 years I have been in this industry. I think that anyone in the human performance or rehab realm will benefit greatly from this course as long as they take the time to sharpen the skills learned from this course.”
Henry Lau, LMT
”This course was awesome, and the instructor’s ability to keep us all engaged was greatly appreciated. I will highly recommend this course to others.”
