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Any professional concerned with enhancing musculoskeletal health — whether through massage therapy, physical therapy, fitness training, or other modalities — understands that the way people exercise has a profound impact on their overall health, mobility, resilience, and ability to recover from injuries. While many different types of exercise may be beneficial, one in particular stands out from the rest as a uniquely efficient and effective approach: Active Isolated Stretching & Strengthening (AIS), developed by kinesiologist Aaron Mattes.
Why Practice AIS?
- To enhance your ability to treat and prevent injuries. AIS speeds the healing of muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and joints. Combining this technique with other forms of treatment can accelerate the recovery process by up to 50%. And by increasing flexibility, strength, and resilience, it can greatly reduce an individual's vulnerability to future injuries. When minor strains or tears do occur, continued AIS work helps to prevent the buildup of scar tissue — a major contributor to stiffness, inflexibility, chronic injury, and pain conditions.
- To help clients feel younger and healthier. As we grow older, many of us accept limitations to our bodyis functioning (such as a reduced range of motion, decreased strength and flexibility, and impaired coordination or fine motor skills) as an inevitable result of the aging process. Through AIS, many of these declines can be successfully prevented or reversed, often dramatically improving a person's well-being and quality of life.
- To work with degenerative neuromuscular conditions. By stimulating neural growth, creating new neural pathways, and reducing muscle spasticity, AIS can successfully reduce the symptoms of various debilitating conditions — including Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases — that do not respond to other forms of manual treatment.
What You'll Learn in this Course
This intensive training will give you a solid foundation in the principles of AIS and the skills to apply them to the hips, thighs, and back. You'll learn to:
- Assess the optimal range of motion for each joint in the hips, thighs, and back
- Maximize the flexibility of every major muscle in the hips, thighs, and back
- Stretch with precision the proximal and distal aspects of the muscle separately
- Take joints to their healthy maximum range of motion
- Efficiently increase strength in perfect alignment
- Use these techniques to speed recovery from injury
You'll leave the course fully prepared to use these techniques with your Monday morning clients.
- Instructor: Ben Benjamin
- Dates: May 21-23, 2010
- Times: Friday & Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 8am-4pm
- Credits: 21 CE Hours
- Tuition: $550. (Save more by registering for the full AIS series! Click here for details.)
- Location: Swedish Covenant Hospital, 5145 North California St., Chicago, IL
For more information and to register by phone, call 617-576-0555.
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