Function + Structure
Assessing the body through a functional and structural lens enables you to understand the patterns that are playing out in your clients' bodies. You will see what imbalances, restrictions, or lack of function could be contributing to pain syndromes or sports performance limitations.
This course takes you through structural and functional assessments and observations from head to toe. We've distilled 40+ years of experience in structural bodywork and functional biomechanics to offer simple observations of the body in motion.
What's Inside?
The body is dynamic, our assessment strategy should be, too.
Rather than just relaxing someone on a massage table or producing static posture, we're interested in understanding and improving function.
This course walks through dynamic assessment and observation of function and relationships in each part of the body. When you understand what's happening at each level, you can apply your manual therapies more strategically and effectively.
Structural Observation
Healthy posture isn't static, it's a dynamic balancing of relationships. Learn to consider the relationships amongst the different aspects of the body. Understand where the body is holding to organize itself in space.
Functional Observation
Learn to observe the body in motion - where is motion healthy? Where is motion restricted? And where is the body compensating? This guides our work to facilitate improved motion and force transfer.
Table Assessment
Walk through assessments to perform once your client is on the table. Simple observations and mobilizations help you understand function and structural relationships.
Example Curriculum
Our goal is to help make good therapists great.
This course is designed to help you understand the body from a more dynamic, comprehensive perspective so that you can apply your hands on tools more specifically to address your clients' issues.
Complete the Package
The Structural Dynamics Assessments training goes really well with the Pain Strategies Mastery training that goes head to toe exploring functional causes of common pain syndromes.
