Ortho-Bionomy®: Working With Chronic Pain with Bruce Starks

Date: October 10 & 11, 2020
Saturday & Sunday
9:00am- 6:00pm

Location:  Comfort Inn Oceanside
50 S. Ocean Drive (A1A)
Deerfield Beach, FL 33441

Pre-Requisites: Phase 4

Early Bird - before   
Regular Price - after   $
Repeat - $ (For SOBI Members)

This class offers 16 FL & National CE's for Massage Therapists
​FL CE Provider    50-7649        NCBTMB Provider  289729-00
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* Bruce will also be offering a Study Group on October 12,2020.   Click on our HERE for more info!

Working with Chronic Pain
Working with clients who have chronic pain can be confusing, challenging and intimidating for practitioners. Fortunately, neuroscience is uncovering new ways of understanding pain with new perspectives for addressing pain. We now know that pain isn’t just a sensation but it’s also a state of the nervous system. The techniques used in Ortho-Bionomy and the principles that we follow in approaching the body are ideally suited to address the dynamics of pain through the body tissues and nervous system.
In this course, we will cover:
The current understanding of the mechanisms creating and perpetuating chronic pain.
The many different types of pain and their potential causes.
How Ortho-Bionomy engages with the body to facilitate the reorganisation of pain signalling.
Techniques which allow us to avoid the pain response and increase functional responsiveness.
How to help clients understand the process of working with chronic pain and ways for us to work together with them to support long-lasting changes

At the end of this class you’ll feel confident to work with chronic pain conditions, have skills to address many different types of pain, understand the mechanisms which create chronic pain, and you’ll be able to communicate effectively with your clients ways to continue to progress and change the pain state.
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Bruce C Stark, BMus, BA, ROBP, CMT
Bruce has over 20 years experience in the field of therapeutic bodywork and as a Practitioner and Advanced Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy.  Bruce maintains a private practice at clinics in Rozelle and Woollahra and teaching Ortho-Bionomy in Sydney and  throughout Australia and New Zealand.  Prior to moving to Sydney in 2001 he was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin - Madison Medical School for 12 years where he taught medical interviewing and physical examination skills.  He also worked for seven years in the fitness industry as a fitness instructor and personal trainer. 
Bruce is an accomplished and sought-after speaker and has presented at several national conferences including the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), the Australian Association of Massage Therapists (AAMT) and many regional conferences for massage, bodywork and complementary health organizations.  He is a regular columnist on Somatics for Mostly Massage Magazine in Australia and has been a trainer with the Somatics College of Body Oriented Psychotherapy in Sydney and the Somatic Psychotherapy Institute of Australia.  Bruce also supervises bodywork and somatic therapists in Australia and New Zealand.

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LOCATION: Comfort Inn Oceanside 
                          50 South Ocean Drive
                          Deerfield Beach, FL  33441
                          Dolphin Conference Room, 1st Floor
                          Reservations:  (954) 428-0650

Class begins at 9:00 am sharp.

PARKING PASS - $5.30 per day for non0guests. $10.60 for overnight guests.

Please arrive at Comfort Inn Oceanside one half hour early on the first day to purchase the weekend parking pass upfront.

Display parking pass on your dashboard at all times as the parking lot is strictly monitored.

Rates for nearby hotels can be found here.

Ortho-Bionomy in Florida is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork  (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.