Early Bird Special!

Active Assisted Stretching Upper Body Program: Neck, Shoulder, Forearm, Wrist, Hand & Fingers

$195.00

Instructor: Dr. Ben E. Benjamin, PhD and LMT
Contact Hours: 7 NY State
Date: Surday November 10, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm

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EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT:

$195 if you register between now and October 10, 2024

$210 regular price

 

This intensive, hands-on workshop teaches you a comprehensive, effective stretching protocol for the upper body. Active Assisted Stretching (AAS) energizes the body, enhances the health of the tissues, increases flexibility, protects the body from injury, enhances the healing process, re-aligns the fascia and makes building strength more effective. AAS is especially good for athletes, the elderly, and the injured, and can also benefit the neurologically impaired.

During this workshop you will practice every stretch until you can perform them efficiently both individually and in sequence, with the least effort. You will also learn self-stretches to teach your clients who need to focus on stretching specific structures.

 

WHAT TO BRING:
2 sheets, 1 towel, face cradle covers & massage oil.

WHAT TO WEAR:

Please wear easily movable, loose clothing so that your low back, shoulder and knee can be easily accessed while maintaining a sense of privacy.

READING/PREP:

We will be emailing you a handout a week prior to the class. It is strongly recommended that you print out this handout and bring to class with you (otherwise bring an iPad or other device from which you can access the handout during class).

 

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About BEN BENJAMIN, PhD (Sports Medicine)
 
Dr. Ben Benjamin has been in sports medicine/muscular therapy private practice since 1963, and has been nationally recognized for his contributions to massage therapy, receiving the AMTA President’s Award in 2000 and an induction into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame in 2010.
 
Dr. Benjamin’s professional training and education spans more than three decades. He earned a Ph.D. in Sports Medicine at Union Graduate School; a Bachelor of Professional Sciences at Empire State College; and studied assessment techniques in Orthopedic Medicine with the well-known British Physician, James Cyriax, M.D.
 
Dr. Benjamin is the author of several books and countless articles, and is the founder of The Benjamin Institute and The Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA.  He has detailed his assessment and treatment strategies for soft tissue injury in articles published in leading massage therapy journals over the last three decades.  His books include “Listen to Your Pain”, “The Ethics of Touch”, and “Are You Tense?: The Benjamin System of Muscular Therapy; and Exercise Without Injury.”
 
Dr. Ben E. Benjamin has dedicated his life to helping people cope with and overcome the pain and stress caused by injury to the body. His therapeutic techniques help reduce and eliminate pain produced by adhesive scar tissue formed from soft tissue injury.
 

As an educator and author, he has conducted seminars and workshops across the country, and served as an instructor and trainer in a variety of settings.  He maintains a private practice, consults on ethics cases as an expert witness, and leads seminars on ethics, communication, and injury assessment and treatment.  He continues with his mission to offer his innovative therapy techniques to help enhance the quality of life for as many people as possible – to help people not simply manage their pain, but to be freed from it.