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Total Credits: 3
Tags: Sports Council
The focus of this presentation will revolve around the ‘less is more’ concept as it pertains to manual therapy. We will discuss the evidence supporting the ideas of Affective touch, Interoception, and Insular activation to modulate pain. A graduated approach to treatment modalities, with a focus on dosages, will be presented to help the practitioner develop a tiered approach to their interventions. The course will highlight common treatment interventions that include kinesiology tape, instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization tools, myofascial cupping, and compressional floss therapies. We will demonstrate how to properly dose these interventions to prioritize the affective regions of the brain in order to create a centrally mediated pain modulating effect. In addition, we will guide the practitioners in attendance on how to stack (layer) multiple interventions together in order to maximize the outcome effect.