Off The Map: The Shoulder That The Brain No Longer Knows – In Person Workshop
Off The Map is an in-person workshop for massage and manual therapists based on the emerging evidence that people with long-standing shoulder pain, including frozen shoulder, show changes in brain activity and sensory–motor processing and the influence these may have in the persistence of pain and movement dysfunction.
You will learn how to assess, treat, and rehabilitate people with persistent shoulder pain, by using strategies that move beyond local tissue-focused models and integrate whole-person perception, movement, and person-environment interactions.
By the end of the course you will be able to
- Understand how evidence relates to real life case presentations and be able to use it for your clinical reasoning
- Assess motor imagery and mental rehearsal of shoulder movement, including changes in body representation commonly seen in persistent shoulder pain
- Use massage and manual therapy techniques as sensory–motor input for improved body and cortical reorganisation.
- Use graphesthesia and rhythmic auditory stimulation as practical tools to support sensory discrimination in shoulder rehabilitation
- Experience how Virtual Reality can be helpful in people with shoulder pain both at clinic and as home based advice.
This workshop is for therapists who want to deepen their understanding of persistent shoulder pain, refine their clinical reasoning, and stand out by offering a contemporary, neuroscience-informed approach to assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of persistent shoulder pain.
