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

6304 N. Nagle Ave. Suite 3 Chicago, Illinois 60646

Phone: 773-628-7654

Email: TriggerPointSeminars@gmail.com

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

Click here for the 2022 schedule of Zoom & Live classes.

Our curriculum is based on the pioneering work of Dr.'s Janet Travell and David G. Simons, and brought up to speed by including 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.

Advanced Trigger Point Seminars are held in our custom-built, 2,000 sq/ft working myofascial pain clinic in Chicago, Illinois, near O'Hare Airport with easy private free parking lot and easy access to I-90 and I-294. We are also teach our courses via Zoom broadcast.

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,and support techniques learned in the classes. Learn from an expert. Mary Biancalana has 22 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 and Advanced Trigger Point Seminars is a NCBTMB approved provider of Continuing Education.

Primary Instructor

Mary Biancalana

MS Edu, CMTPT, LMT

Certified Personal Trainer

Pro Massage Trigger Point Training Center

Pro Massage & Chiropractic

313 B Bluebird Drive

Goodlettsville, TN 37072

Phone: (615)448-6446

Website: http://www.ProMassageNow.com

Become a Muscle Detective!

Celisa Ellis MTPT, LMT, and owner of Pro Massage & Chiropractic, brings over 20 years of trigger point experience.

Our classes offer hands on training in Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy.

In our classes you will learn how to find the source of muscle pain & dysfunction using ROM testing, studying pain patterns, and palpation techniques. We utilize the books written by Dr. Janet Travell and David Simons as well as other Myofascial trigger point publications.

Monthly classes will be offered, focusing on common body pain complaints that you can utilize in your practice right away. Including posture assessments, and correcting perpetuating factors…If you don’t know what perpetuating factors are, you need to take these classes! We offer 14 classes, each class is 7.5 hours of CE units focusing on 14 common areas of pain and dysfunction. Total of 105 CE hours and certification as a MTPT.

Help your clients feel better faster. Gain client confidence as well as your own. Learn how to use your body properly so you can be a therapist as long as you want. Learn to manage your own pain.

For more information and class schedules visit our website

http://www.ProMassageNow.com or call us at (615)448-6446.

Pro Massage & Chiropractic

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

Myopain Seminars Program Introduction

Myopain Seminars was created by Dr. Jan Dommerholt and Dr. Robert Gerwin in the 1990’s. In 2009 Stewart Wild CNMT, CMTPT took over the development and teaching of manual trigger point techniques, as Dommerholt and Gerwin developed the Trigger Point Dry-Needling courses. Stewart has been teaching neuromuscular trigger point therapy since 1998. The Manual Trigger Point Therapy (MTT) program is based in Bethesda MD, and has been taught throughout the USA, Canada, Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Manual Trigger Point Therapy (MTT) at a Glance

· 100-hour program

· 170 muscles covered

· Three, 3-day courses = 9 days total

· 72 hours practical and theory; MTT-1, MTT-2 & MTT-3

· 28 hours of home study theory

· Completion of both MTT-1 and MTT-2 before registering for MTT-3

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

· Certification as CMTPT after successful completion of MTT-3

Program Components

Theory

· Course text 1; Nikita Vizniak’s; Muscle Manual

· Course text 2; Dommmerholt, Huibregts; Myofascial Trigger Points

· Introductory 90-minute lectures to begin each module

· Eight online, password protected lectures by Dr. Jan Dommerholt

· Ten research papers – updated annually

· Three in-class open book quizzes, each with 20 short answer questions

· A final 75-question MCQ exam (70% pass rate) on the last day of MTT-3

Practical

· Practical demonstration by instructor, followed by a student trade and reverse trade; a format repeated throughout the courses to include all 170 muscles

· A mock practical concludes MTT-1 and MTT-2 (two muscles chosen at random)

· A final practical test-out on four muscles (80% pass rate) on the last day of MTT-3

Contact Info

Myopain Seminars

4405 East-West Highway,

Suite 404 Bethesda,

MD 20814-4535

Phone: (855) 209-1832

Website: www.myopainseminars.com

Myopain Seminars

Maryland. Six Seminars.

Instructors

Jan Dommerholt, PT, MPS, FAAPM

Robert Gerwin, MD, FAAN

The workshops are designed for licensed healthcare practitioners, including physicians and physician assistants, dentists, physical therapists and physical therapy assistants, chiropractors, occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants, massage therapists, acupuncturists, nurses, and nurse practitioners.

Dry needling

Manual TrP therapy

Canine TrP Therapy

Orofacial Dry Needling

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