FMT RockPods Glide: Massage Envy
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Description
This course introduces the concept of skin/fascial gliding and decompression to help improve tissue mobility, enhance movement and modulate pain with the use of gliding myofascial cups. This course will cover the physiological and neurological effects of myofascial cupping on connective tissue gliding, in addition to various treatment strategies with a gliding cup.
Interventions using myofascial cupping will be reviewed and informed by current research. Lastly, treatment considerations for back, neck, and extremities will be examined and discussed.
This course is intended for performance professionals and therapists with a basic understanding of soft tissue techniques.
Available Course Credits
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NCBTMB | 2.00 |
Learning Objectives
After this course the participant will be able to:
1. Discover and explore the neurological and mechanical effects of cupping.
2. Define and recognize the chemical tissue response to cupping.
3. Compare and contrast the research as it relates to cupping and the nervous system.
4. Define, practice, and integrate self and assisted myofascial glide cuppings strategies for multiple pathologic conditions.
Course Content
| Massage Envy Glide Pods | Module |
Hour One
- Introduce and Review what cupping is and how it works as it relates to the skin and nervous system
- Review the current literature related to myofascial cupping techniques
- Define and discuss the how and why gliding cups are an effective treatment Review safety of applications
- Cupping indications/contraindications
Hour Two
- Discuss treatment considerations, as well as a variety of gliding methods of the cups
- Demonstrate and discuss self-application methods of gilding cups
- Introduce and apply how to use the gliding cups related to tunnel syndromes
- Introduce and practice use of cupping as it relates fascial lines and abdominal techniques