Training

Training Programs and Courses

Training Programs and Courses

The NAMTPT does not specifically endorse any particular training program, rather, holds a high standard for its listed programs. The prospective student is encouraged to contact these programs to see if the style and curriculum is in alignment with what he or she wants to study. Scroll down to review all programs.

Please contact us if you have a school or program and would like to be considered to be listed with us. Other programs will be considered on a case by case basis. president@NAMTPT.org

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A national certification board approved provider for continuing education for therapeutic massage and bodywork.

Mary Biancalana, MS Edu, CMTPT, LMT, Cert Per Trainer

Chicago, Illinois 60646

Email: TriggerPointSeminars@gmail.com

Click here to go to the Advanced Trigger Point Seminar Page.

Our curriculum is based on the pioneering work of Dr.'s Janet Travell and David G. Simons, and brought up to speed by Mary Biancalana to include the most up-to-date, research-based information on fascia, muscle pain, trigger points, self-care and the pathochemistry of pain and sensitization. You will receive expert, dynamic instruction on powerful Trigger Point treatment techniques that are immediately applicable in your own practice.

We incorporate functional, multi-planar range of motion assessment in our full protocol. We also utilize PNF - contract relax stretch techniques to best facilitate normalization of muscle tissue and fascia. We have a fantastic prerecorded course on this technique taught by Dr. Julie Zuleger and Mary B.

8 Core weekend seminars (14 hrs each) and 4 single day seminars (7 hrs each), are divided by body area and each covers hands-on treatment techniques and smart and easy ways to apply the trigger point clinical reasoning directly into your practice.

A full library of digital videos are accessible only to ATPS students. These videos support the techniques learned in the classes. Learn from an expert. Mary Biancalana has 25 years full-time as a trigger point therapist who is practicing in a successful clinical environment. Click here for a video example of Mary's Teaching style for her trigger point seminars. Registered students get links to all the videos for home practice to improve hands-on skills.

Muscle Health, dba Advanced Trigger Point Seminars is a NCBTMB approved provider of Continuing Education.

Primary Instructor

Mary Biancalana, MA Edu, CMTPT, LMT, Certified Personal Trainer

Become a Muscle Detective!

Unlock the power of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy with Celisa Ellis, CMTPT, LMT, owner of Pro

Massage HIS, and Julie Miller-Wilson, cMTPT.

With over 30 years combined experience in trigger point

therapy, they offer hands-on, practical training designed to help you master the art of pain relief. In these interactive classes, you’ll learn to identify the root causes of muscle pain and dysfunction using Range of Motion (ROM) testing, pain pattern analysis, and palpation techniques. The curriculum is based

on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Janet Travell and David Simons along with other leading publications

in the field.

Each month, we offer classes that focus on common pain complaints, providing you with skills you can immediately apply in your practice. You’ll also learn posture assessments and how to correct perpetuating factors that contribute to chronic pain. (If you don’t know what perpetuating factors are, you need this course!) Our program consists of 12 classes, each 8 hours long, totaling 96 CE hours. Upon completion of full course, you will be certified as a Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist (MTPT).

This training isn’t just about helping your clients—it’s about helping you, too. You’ll gain confidence in your skills, build trust with clients, and most importantly, learn proper body mechanics to extend your career and manage your own pain. Take your practice to the next level and start making a real

difference in your clients lives—and your own!

For more information and class schedules visit:

https://www.promassageihs.com/myofascial-trigger-point-classes

or call us at (615)448-6446

Pro Massage Integrative Health Solutions

313 B Bluebird Drive

Goodlettsville, TN 37072

Amber Davies: Trigger Point Therapy Workshops

For Self-Treatment and Clinical Treatment of Pain

Instructor

Amber Davies - CMTPT, LMT

Make your body a laboratory for learning! The skills you develop troubleshooting your own pain problems will directly help you solve your clients’ problems. In mastering self-treatment, you discover precisely what works and what doesn't.

Extensive clinical practice time is detailed, supervised, and memorable! Discover less intense, more effective pain relief that lasts. Better communication methods created to empower but you and your client. This is trigger point therapy your clients will love!

At every turn throughout the workshop, you will be shown safer and more effective techniques that will help keep you out of pain. A special forearm and hand self-treatment session will be included, even in the Lower Body Workshop, to help relieve pain from previous strain.

New Day Myopain Center LLC is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education provider. Attendees will earn CE credits for all classes.

Contact Info

New Day Myopain Center LLC

1813 Brownsboro Road

Louisville, KY 40206

Phone: (502) 445-2012

Email: amber@newdaymyopain.com

Website: www.triggerpointbook.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/trigger.point.book

MYOPAIN SEMINARS - MANUAL TRIGGER POINT THERAPY (MTT)

BASED IN BETHESDA MD

Participants say these courses make an immediate impact on their daily practice whether they are massage therapists, PTs, PTAs, or chiropractors. These in-person hands-on classes familiarize students with muscles commonly associated with myofascial symptoms in clinical practice. Students will review the anatomy, function, precise palpation, and manual therapy techniques for each muscle.

These courses include home-study video modules. These modules provide an introduction to the history of trigger points and myofascial pain science (both reviewed during in-person courses). Theory components feature the clinical aspects of myofascial pain, peripheral and central sensitization, the etiology and scientific basis of myofascial pain, and manual trigger point therapy.

MTT-1: Upper Body (3 days) (24 CEs)

MTT-2: Lower Body (3 days) (24 CEs)

MTT-3: Muscles of the Cranium and Certification Exams (2 days) (8 CEs)

Must complete both MTT-1 and MTT-2 before registering for MTT-3

MTT-1 and MTT-2 can be taken in any order

Earn your certification as a Certified Manual Trigger Point Therapist after successful completion of practical and written exams on the second day of MTT-3

Who Should Attend:

Licensed Healthcare Professionals using manual or hands-on techniques to reduce pain and dysfunction, especially licensed massage therapists (LMT) and branches of that profession, physical therapists (PT) and assistants (PTA), occupational therapists (OT) and assistants (OTA), physicians (MD), physician assistants (PA), etc.

Course Objectives:

Understand that myofascial trigger points can account for many common but enigmatic conditions of pain and dysfunction.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of relevant musculoskeletal anatomy and physiology in the context of myofascial trigger points.
Be able to define sub-optimal function in relation to myofascial trigger points
Understand the process of normal pain mechanisms; reception, transmission and modulation.
Demonstrate knowledge of the etiology of myofascial trigger point
Demonstrate knowledge of the formation and biochemical mechanism of myofascial trigger points.
Demonstrate knowledge of the mechanisms of perpetuation of myofascial trigger points.
Learn the evidence for accurate palpation of taut bands and myofascial trigger points throughout the body.
Demonstrate knowledge of and perfect the detection and full inactivation of myofascial trigger points.
Demonstrate mastery of MTT-1, MTT-2 and MTT-3 via written and hands-on examinations for certification as a Manual Trigger Point Therapist (CMTPT).

Contact Info:

Myopain Seminars

8120 Woodmont Ave, Suite 200

Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone: (240) 396-6946

Website: https://www.myopainseminars.com/

Learn Bodywork That Works

For Self-Treatment and Clinical Treatment of Pain

Clinical Thai Bodywork (CTB) grew out of Chuck Duff’s frustration in the late 1990s with the absence of anatomical knowledge and clinical depth in his traditional Thai massage training. Early in his bodywork career, he found that his traditional training had not prepared him to help his many clients with serious pain. Trigger points proved to be the missing element.

Chuck met and studied with Claire Davies, author of the Trigger Point Workbook, in 2002 and soon realized that the Travell & Simons system of myofascial trigger points added a critical piece for understanding and resolving pain conditions at their origins. Chuck taught the first CTB course in 2005, incorporating his in-depth study of Travell & Simons, asian medicine, sports and osteopathic techniques, and functional analysis of the traditional poses — a process that took many years. A key early collaborator in the development of CTB was Mary Biancalana of Advanced Trigger Point Seminars.

Steeped in the movement disciplines of yoga, Thai bodywork and martial arts, Chuck’s CTB approach incorporates sophisticated integration of joint motion with compression and is highly effective at resolving pain. Thai Bodywork offers a full CTB certification program consisting of more than 500 hours of in-person and online courses in addition to a practical apprenticeship component structured as 7 individual body area certifications

Click here to go to the Thai Bodywork website

Areas of focus include state of the art trigger point theory and practice, functional anatomy, MET, thorough analysis of satellite referral, and a deep repertoire of highly efficient techniques that preserve the therapist’s body. Students emerge with a professional level trigger point education, an incisive method of analysis and treatment design and a sustainable practice that they can maintain for a lifetime.

Contact Info

Chuck Duff, Thai Bodywork School

537 Custer Ave. Suite 5

Evanston, IL 60202

Phone: (847)-440-7525

Email: admissions@thaibodywork.com

Website: http://thaibodywork.com

MYO Trigger Point Seminars, Chicago

Twelve (12) 14-hour weekends (1 weekend per month for 12 months), the completed series is 165 CEUs

Instructor

Sharon Sauer, CMTPT, LMT

Myo Seminar Series Website

The MYO Trigger Point Seminars provide practical, hands-on instruction covering specific myofascial trigger point technique as developed by Sharon Sauer and Mary Biancalana. Weekend topics include the 10 major areas of the body, plus comprehensive sessions on Fibromyalgia, Acute & Sports Injuries, and Business. 168 hours total. Assessment for and Remediation of Perpetuating factors is emphasized. MYO has developed unique area-specific self-care protocols for the entire body. These protocols are made available to students to use in their own practice as hand-outs. Students include Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists, DCs, DO's , PT's and more. The course prepares students for the NAMTPT Certification exam. Pre-requisites: Licensed Massage Therapist, Licensed Health care Provider.

Trigger Point Coach

For Self-Treatment and Clinical Treatment of Pain

Instructors

Drs. Rob Beenker

Hanneke Heij, LMT

Drs. Hannah Bouma, LMT

Tilly Slangen, LMT

Clifton Tjien A Fat, LMT

https://www.triggerpointcoach.nl/

The Academy for Trigger Point Coaching provides practical, dynamic, hands-on instruction covering the myofascial trigger point techniques as described in Clair and Amber Davies’ Trigger Point Therapy Workbook as well as a number of additional techniques. You may attend if you are a licensed massage therapist, sports masseur, physiotherapist, general practitioner of approved by the instructors.

Currently the academy offers three two-day modules, a licensing program and a number of one day specialized trainings. These trainings cover Frozen Shoulder, Upper Crossed Syndrome, Head Aches, Impingement and others. You may reach the level of Triggerpointcoach® in no less than a year and no more than 3 years, depending on when you wish to go on to the next training.

In module 1 you will start finding your own trigger points before you will work on fellow students. Module two deals with a variety of relatively easy to treat myofascial problems. After having taken the test of module 2 successfully, you may take your place on the practitioners page. If you want to retain that place, you will enroll in our licensing program, after which you may attend module 3. Here we teach more complex myofascial cases, including specific coaching techniques, designed to help you support your clients’ self-reliance.

Beyond Trigger Points Seminars

For Self-Treatment and Clinical Treatment of Pain

Instructor

Cathy Cohen, LMT, CMTPT

Beyond Trigger Points Website

Cathy Cohen, LMT is a National and Florida approved CEU Provider and Board Certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist. She provides live webinars, workshops and online advanced massage therapy continuing education: www.BeyondTriggerPoints.com. This unique Connect the Dots System makes it easy for students to upgrade their therapist skill set & gain confidence with effective pain treatment protocols.

BTP Seminars provide in-depth training in a powerful 3-in-1 Program:

1. Therapists identify the mechanical, systemic and psychological factors that perpetuate the client's pain condition.

2. The “Beyond” in Beyond Trigger Point Seminars means therapists receive six weeks of a paced online multimedia Follow-Up Enrichment Program to ensure retention and integration.

3. “Beyond” also means therapists get our exclusive Therapist Self-Care training.

The Going Beyond Trigger Points Connect the Dots System combines Trigger Point methodologies, integrated with Structural Integration & postural reeducation protocols. By evaluating the negative effects bad posture inflicts on the fascia system, students gain insight into how fascia creates a rich breeding ground for painful myofascial trigger points.

Cathy is also an avid dancer in Ballroom, English and West Coast Swing, a long-term Yoga enthusiast, and an experienced meditation practitioner. She has personally guided over 2,600 therapists into the amazing and fulfilling career of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy. For reviews of the program visit https://beyondtriggerpoints.com/testimonials

Contact Info

Cathy Cohen, LMT, CMTPT

Fort Myers, Florida

Phone: (239)-896-8977

Email: CathyCohen@BeyondTriggerPoints.com