A Massage Therapist'S Guide To Treating Neck Pain

A complete evidence based certificate course on treating your massage client's neck pain and pinched nerves

What you'll learn
In this neck pain certificate course you will learn an evidence based approach on how to successfully treat neck pain and pinched nerves
You will no longer just give your massage clients a massage for their neck pain and HOPE that they feel better
You will understand the mechanisms that keep people's necks sensitized and painful and know EXACTLY what to do for them
You will have a complete skillset to competently treat your massage client's neck pain, disc bulges and pinched nerves
Requirements
Everything is included in this course for you.
Description
In a massage therapist's guide to treating lower neck pain certificate course, you will learn a comprehensive evidence based system on how to successfully treat neck pain, disc bulges and pinched nerves on your massage clients and also your OWN neck pain that will change the way your approach your massage client's pain.Imagine the next time someone comes to see you for a massage complaining of having neck pain or a pinched nerve and you will confidently KNOW what is needed to treat them confidently and successfully based on the research of what we know works and what does not.After doing this certificate course, you will have a complete skillset to competently treat your massage client's neck pain  and you will quickly become known as the massage therapist that is an expert in treating neck pain no matter how severe, acute or chronic it is.You will no longer just give your massage clients a massage for their neck pain and HOPE that they feel better! Or worse still, recommend things that are in fact keeping them in pain.I will take you step by step in a methodical evidence based approach so that whenever a massage client comes to see you with neck pain or pinched nerves in the future you will know EXACTLY what to do and recommend to them.NO MORE GUESSWORK!One of the biggest problems for massage therapists is not knowing how to treat both acute, chronic and episodic neck pain and pinched nerves successfully.No more doubts or questions like these anymore:What stretches should you give them? What exercises should you recommend to your massage clients? What things harm necks and what you need to tell them to avoid? Which stretches should you NEVER recommend to your massage clients?In this course, you will learn exactly what to do for your massage clients and for yourself no matter whether the pain is coming from disc bulges, facet joints or even spinal stenosis in an easy to follow systematic approach.In fact even if you are not a massage therapist you can learn everything you need to know to treat your own neck pain simply and easily once you understand the mechanisms that keep people's necks sensitized and painful.Become a master at treating lower neck pain and pinched nerves today!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome to the course! Taking it to a new level

Lecture 2 This course will give you a massive advantage over other massage therapists!

Lecture 3 Download your client's Ebook

Lecture 4 Why you MUST get your client to stop doing these things to really help them

Lecture 5 The vast majority of your clients will have this problem causing pain

Lecture 6 What happens to the muscles and discs and how you can help them

Lecture 7 If it hurts them it harms them keeping thus keeping them sensitized and in pain

Lecture 8 What about if you are not sure, what do you do?

Lecture 9 What to look for with a pinched nerve

Lecture 10 The 2 best exercises to remove their neck pain and pinched nerves

Lecture 11 If they have too much pain, this exercise should be given

Lecture 12 How to advance the exercises to get them out of pain

Lecture 13 Here is an exercise for pinched nerves and one-sided pain

Lecture 14 You may be able to diagnose this fault by knowing these symptoms

Lecture 15 What to do with a neck thats still really stiff

Lecture 16 Walking-a great therapeutic tool.

Lecture 17 Should you advise your clients to use ice or heat?

Lecture 18 How to summarize all of that for your client

Lecture 19 Do NOT be this massage therapist!

Section 2: Treatments

Lecture 20 The treatments section

Lecture 21 Tennis ball

Lecture 22 Joint mobilizations for a stiff neck/crick in the neck/poor rotations

Section 3: Using deep tissue massage techniques to help neck pain

Lecture 23 If you are a massage therapist-you may need to watch this first

Lecture 24 The start of a deep tissue massage is important

Lecture 25 Working the back with deep tissue techniques

Lecture 26 And more wonderful deep tissue techniques working the back and shoulder muscles.

Lecture 27 Now we are going to look at doing deep tissue massage techniques for the neck.

Lecture 28 Now I will show you how to do the arms and shoulders with deep tissue massage

Lecture 29 Here is the entire deep tissue massage sequence with music

Section 4: Relaxation massage techniques that you may also like to use

Lecture 30 Relaxation massage for the back

Lecture 31 Now we work the neck using relaxation massage techniques

Section 5: Using gua sha to help neck pain

Lecture 32 Doing gua sha for neck pain

Lecture 33 How to perform gua sha

Lecture 34 Doing gua sha on your neck

Section 6: Using acupressure for pain relief to help with neck pain

Lecture 35 How does it actually work?

Lecture 36 How to do acupressure for pain relief correctly

Lecture 37 Getting your technique correct is super important

Lecture 38 So you have the technique down but how much pressure should you use?

Lecture 39 Make sure that you use your body correctly

Lecture 40 How to perform acupressure for the back, neck and shoulders

Lecture 41 You can teach your client how to do this self treatment as well

Section 7: Using kinesiology taping to help with neck pain

Lecture 42 How does it work?

Lecture 43 A brief history of where it came from

Lecture 44 What you are going to need to do kinesiology taping

Lecture 45 An introduction on how to use kinesio tape

Lecture 46 How to apply the tape

Lecture 47 How to remove the tape correctly

Lecture 48 Taping for the trapezius

Lecture 49 Taping for a crick in the neck

Lecture 50 Taping right over the site of pain

Section 8: Congratulations!

Lecture 51 Congratulations

Lecture 52 BONUS

For massage therapists that want to have an evidence based approach to treating neck pain and pinched nerves that is based on research. This course is for those that want to take the guesswork and the 'hit and hope' approach to treating neck pain no matter what the underlying causes are.