Certified Fascial Stretch Specialist™ - Fitness track (CFSS-F)
Faculty: Ann Frederick, PSI, Founder/Director and Chris Frederick, PT, PSI, CGFP, co-Director and certified assistants.
Contact Hours: 25
Level: Advanced (APTA guidelines)
Cost: Super early bird price $1,995 (USD) due by September 15, 2010; Early bird price $2,095 (USD) due by October 15, 2010; Regular price $2,195 (USD) after October 15, 2010; $250 deposit required to hold spot or pay early bird installments; cost includes manual and 4 extra portable table fixation belts. (We reserve the right to cancel this course by October 1, 2010 due to lack of registrations; full refund will be issued if course cancelled by the Institute).
Cost includes:
- Tuition
- Copiously illustrated 2010 Level III course manual (annually revised) (FREE - $350 value)
- Complete Level III training video (FREE - $350 value) - available to view & practice before start of class upon receipt of full tuition payment.
- One year's listing on the Stretch to Win website Therapist Locator (FREE - $50/year value)
Location: Tempe, AZ, USA
Registration: Please call Robin at 480-394-9121 to place a deposit of $250 to hold your place or email her at robin@stretchtowin.com.
Course Dates
November 4 - 7, 2010
Course Times
Registration: Thursday 8:30AM - 9:00AM
Thursday: 9:00AM - 5:30PM
Friday: 9:00AM - 5:30PM
Saturday: 9:00AM - 5:30PM
Sunday: 8:00AM - 12:30PM
Prerequisite
- Level II certification plus 200 documented hours of practice utilizing the technique on actual clients.
- One case study - the patient/client must have had specific problems or diagnosis that you used FST™ either alone or integrated with other therapies as treatment. Case study due 14 days before class starts. Detailed requirements provided after you are registered.
Target audience: Non-medical bodyworkers and massage therapists, Pilates & Yoga instructors, personal trainers, exercise physiologists, strength & conditioning specialists and similar non-medical professionals.
Enrollment limited to 20 participants.
Course notice: course content is not intended for use by participants outside the scope of their license or regulation.
Course description:
This course qualifies as an Advanced level workshop since it assumes that the participants have a thorough familiarity with the topics of gross human anatomy, connective tissue anatomy, kinesiology, and advanced assisted stretching therapy and flexibility training. Therefore, it focuses on advanced techniques, recent advances, and future directions in Fascial Stretch Therapy™ and by increasing your understanding and clinical application of this material.
From day one, this workshop will rapidly depart from Level II in depth and scope by vastly increasing the FST provider's ability to listen, see and feel. You will also learn how to critically assess and solve chronic conditions that have plagued clients for years thereby improving their quality of life and increasing respect for you as a qualified professional that can help where others have failed.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course you should be able to:
- Learn how to assess and eliminate imbalances that can cause the following chronic, stable conditions: piriformis syndrome, plantar fasciitis, low back pain, rotator cuff syndrome and more.
- Perform an accurate subjective assessment flow chart to help direct the session focus for more successful outcomes.
- Determine specific problems of your client-weakness, stiffness, tightness, pain or their unique combinations-then choose the correct follow up tests to confirm your findings & help guide your client session focus.
- Demonstrate accurate understanding of posture and body reading and how it helps determine the strategy of not only an FST session but also whatever else you plan to do with your client.
- Understand how gait determines functional plane dominance and it's relation to what myofascial regions get shortened.
- Learn how to accurately manually muscle test the myotomes to help guide you to the specific antagonists that are inhibiting the strength of the agonist muscles.
- Learn to combine &/or integrate shorter FST sessions with other sessions like Pilates, yoga, personal training and massage.
- Identify clients that fit into the following categories then learn how to modify your FST session to accommodate their special needs: type A control freaks, high strung fast twitch athletes, unknown etiology, stiff board "doesn't live in their body", emotional wrecks and more.
Continuing Education Provider: The Stretch to Win Institute is credentialed and recognized by the following professional associations to offer continuing education to their membership:
- Arizona Physical Therapy Association: course # 08-0802 / 2.4 CEUs
- Board of Certification for Certified Athletic Trainers: Provider #P3373 / 24 CEUs
- AZ State Board of Massage Therapy: Approved IASI affiliate of ABMP for 25 CEs
Students residing outside of Arizona have received approval of our courses for CEs & CEUs after you submit the proper documents which will be supplied to you after you register for the course.
The Stretch to Win Institute Corporation has been registered with the Arizona Corporate Commission to conduct the business of professional continuing education in the State of Arizona since 1999.
