Clinical Massage for Knee Problems – chronic pain, preventative care, and dysfunction

with Marc Frazier  

Sunday, March 20
10am-5pm
$125
6 CE’s

Online Registration Closed – Walk-ins Only

**10% discount for TLC students/grads**

There is more to chronic knee pain than merely “tight” quads or hamstrings. The knee is a load-bearing joint between the longest bones in the body. Both its structure and function are greatly affected by the mechanical relationships between the hips, ankles, and feet. The knee also reflects the way the weight of the pelvis and trunk are supported and carried by the lower limbs.

In Clinical Massage for Knee Problems, Marc Frazier will help you look at these moving relationships and learn new techniques to effectively impact the areas of tensions in and around the knee and the other structures that most commonly contribute to pain in the knee. He will also illuminate how many techniques you already know can be focused to create even better results with knee problems.

Students in this training will:

  • Better recognize and effectively address compensatory tensions held in the musculature of the back, hips and ankles.
  • Better understand (and be able to explain to their clients) how problems from other areas may put stress on the knee.
  • Palpate for quality of load-bearing in the back and pelvis
  • Palpate and massage the hip muscles most related to knee pain
  • Palpate and focus on massaging muscles of the posterior knee
  • Palpate and massage the muscles in lower leg, ankles and feet which may contribute to knee pain
  • Learn to monitor changes in muscle tone and tension in the leg as you work
  • Learn relevance of frequently monitoring range of motion in the hips and ankles

Screen Shot 2016-03-18 at 1.44.09 PMMarc Frazier has been a personal trainer for over 35 years and a massage therapist for 20 years. During that time, he has worked extensively in sports massage and clinical settings. He has travelled with numerous teams and is one of the most valued clinical massage and training resources in the Central Texas. His passion is functional anatomy, massage therapy, and their successful clinical application in helping people improve both their structure and functional health.