The ONLY course for occupational therapy practitioners that guides you in applying the SCIENCE of FASCIA to YOUR practice.
Fostering Expansion, Innovation, and Excitement in Your Practice
with Fascia Science
Benefits to Integrating Fascia Science into Your Existing Expertise of the Human Body
Answer Client Questions with Confidence: When clients inquire about fascia, you’ll be well-equipped to provide clear, accurate information.
Guide Clients in Fascia Treatment Choices: Effectively direct clients seeking fascia treatment, ensuring they receive appropriate and beneficial care.
Handle Myofascial Pain Referrals with Expertise: Begin treatment confidently when referrers send clients with myofascial pain which is becoming more and more common.
Make Informed Decisions on Skills Addition: Select and integrate new fascia-related skills into your practice with confidence.
Enhance Existing Interventions: Adjust current interventions to specifically target fascia, improving their effectiveness. Fascia is the environment of every other body system. We must address it.
Revolutionize Pain Management: Adopt a new perspective on pain management, informed by fascia science.
Empower Clients with New Strategies: Equip your clients with innovative strategies to manage their health and well-being.
Gain a Professional Edge: Stand out among colleagues with specialized knowledge in fascia science.
Adopt a Truly Holistic Approach: Incorporate a comprehensive, fascia-informed perspective into your care practices.
Foster Innovation in Your Practice: Build a strong foundation for ongoing innovation and advancement in your practice area.
My Journey
For much of my early career I thought myofascial release was the only way to affect the fascial system. As I learned more about fascia science, a whole new world of assessment and intervention strategies opened up and most of them don’t require the use of any manual techniques.
If you are a therapist like me, who has learned myofascial release to help clients, that's fantastic—but it's only the beginning. Stopping at learning just one technique means missing out on many other hands-on and hands-off assessment and intervention strategies available to you and your clients. With a truly fascia science-informed approach, you can address a wide range of issues beyond just pain and mobility.
Believing that hands-on myofascial techniques are the only way to affect the fascia is a misconception. While these techniques can be extremely effective when applied skillfully, the real missing puzze piece in healthcare is the fascial system itself, not any specific technique.
My mission is to make the inclusion of the fascial system in our evaluation and intervention planning as commonplace as the inclusion of the muscular or nervous system. By broadening our understanding and approach, we can unlock new potential in client care and improve outcomes across the board.
Fascia Science is the fastest way to drive innovation, expand your treatment options, and reenergize your practice.
First you learn the anatomy and physiology. Then you learn how to put it into practice.
Curriculum Preview
- The Anatomy and Physiology of Fascia
- The Many Functions of Fascia
- Fascia Provides the Framework and Environment for Our ENTIRE Body
- Fascia Provides Structural Support Creating a UNIFIED System (0:37)
- Fascia Distributes Force and Creates Coordinated Movement
- Fascia Supports Efficient Movement and Provides Protection
- Fascia is a Major Player in Proprioception
- Fascia is a Huge Contributor to Interoception
- Much of the Pain We Experience is in the Fascia
- Fascia is Part of the Immune System
- Reflection
- The Birth of "Fascia-Informed™ Wellness"
- Diaphragmatic Movement and Fascia Wellness (1:30)
- Implications of Stress on the Fascia (3:54)
- Hydration, Nutrition, and Supplementation for Fascia Wellness (3:08)
- Sleep and Fascia Wellness (1:28)
- The Deep Connection Between Posture, Body Alignment, and Fascia Wellness (8:42)
- The Delicate Balance Between Fascia and Our Stability and Mobility (3:20)
- The Right Kinds of Movement, Stretching, and Exercise Keep the Fascia Well (9:37)
- Professional Hands-On Fascia-Focused Manual Therapy Techniques in the OTP Domain (4:27)
- Safe Fascial Self-Care Options for Our Patients AND Free Access to Our Self-Treatment Workshop (3:03)
- Reflection
If you were to take the time to read and digest this content, you'd spend weeks, months or even years processing this information costing you more in time than you likely have to spare.
We're providing you with the details you need to know and blending them with my 30+ years of teaching and practice experience. If you hired and paid me for the hours put into the development of this course, it would cost you thousands!
My mission is to create fascia-informed therapists so I'm putting it out there at a VERY reasonable investment, so it is accessible to as many OTPs as possible.
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Full 90-Day
We know you are busy, so we’ll give you three full months to get through the course.
If after you complete the course, you haven’t learned something new that you can apply to yourself or your practice, we’ll give you a full refund. We are so sure you’ll learn something you’ll use from this course that we’ll give you 100% of your money back.
100% of practitioners who enrolled in this course (and all our courses) would recommend them to a colleague.
"I really enjoyed learning more in depth what the fascia system is, and just how important it is. I think it is fascinating how our fascia holds everything together, and how disruptions in the system can lead to many different issues. It really continues to reflect just how interconnected our body systems are to each other. I really enjoyed the video examples provided, as they give me a good visual/interactive component to learning, which really helps me personally remember content better. "
Course Enhancement #1
How many CE courses come with a built-in community to connect and ask questions?!?
Connect with like-minded practitioners.
Innovate with practitioners in your practice area.
Ask questions and get answers!
Course Enhancement #2
We've added four months of live mentoring in a group membership format FREE! (A $92 value.)
You can jump on a Zoom call once per month to join the live Q and A and discuss new information in the world of fascia and fascia science and its application. Members can also submit questions and topics for me to research for upcoming sessions.
We want to help you integrate this information into your practice!
Course Enhancement #3
You'll get our framework for creating a simple and easily understood public-facing fascia science presentation.
We use this framework when speaking to groups, at our workshops and when talking with referral partners.
With this course AND the framework, you'll gain confidence in sharing what you know!
Course Enhancement #4
Huge Discounts on Practitioner Facing Courses in Our Library
When you enroll in this course, you'll be offered huge discounts on all our other courses you can use any time. You'll also get a discount to continue your membership in the live mentoring sessions!
We are so sure you'll love this course that you'll want more ways you can elevate your practice and improve your outcomes via fascia science!!
Course Enhancement #5
Because we know your brain will be on blast with all this new information we want to give you a way to relax and chill out.
We're giving you a replay of our two-hour myofascial self-treatment workshop taught live with real participants (permission provided for filming). You can follow along and hear how we explain fascia science to the public and teach self-treatment while you chill out and self-treat.
You also have the opportunity to add INDIVIDUAL Mentoring and Coaching in addition to your course!
This option includes two hours per month of individual coaching in any length of sessions you choose. Yes. You can get a certificate for your individual mentoring time!
Our mentoring and coaching program is still in development and should be ready for enrollment this fall.
EXPANSION
Most practitioners have heard of myofascial techniques, but few are aware of the current research related to the fascial system and all it is responsible for in the human body!
This course will EXPAND your expertise in how the human body functions and all the many intervention options we have to influence fascial health!
INNOVATION
The National Institute of Health is spending millions of dollars on innovating methods to objectively measure the health of fascia.
WE can use fascia science to innovate new assessment and intervention strategies in all practice areas across the lifespan in OUR practices.
As you integrate the science in this course with your existing expertise you will find yourself on a course of innovation!
EXCITEMENT
We love creating professional development that provides unique opportunities to grow you AND your practice.
Professional development should do more than just meet your license requirements.
We don't just read the research.
We put it into action!
Yes. We attend conferences and webinars led by researchers from all over the world.
Yes. We travel all over the country speaking to practitioners about how to apply the science.
And YES, we APPLY the science in our practice with real clients every day!
Current Research
My passion is keeping up with the latest research on fascia that relates to OT practice.
In this course I share the research you need to know to support your practice choices and be able to confidently explain them to your patients and your referral sources.
Practice
I integrate the knowledge of fascia into my clinical practice daily.
In this course I will show you how the science of fascia can guide and support our professional practice choices.
Teaching
Teaching other professionals about fascia and how it can influence our practice is my mission.
My goal is for you to enjoy this course and feel reenergized with a new way to view the human body and your practice.
This information fills in the gaps of our understanding of the human body!
Education has made huge advances in HOW we teach but lag behind in WHAT we teach.
Limited Understanding of Fascia’s Dynamic Role: Traditional teachings often overlook fascia’s critical roles in communication, proprioception, and immune function.
Emerging Research: Recent studies highlight fascia’s involvement in chronic pain, systemic inflammation, and overall mobility, yet these insights are not widely taught.
Integrated Approaches: The integration of fascia science into holistic approaches, combining manual therapy, movement, and lifestyle modifications, is rarely covered in current curricula.
Interdisciplinary Benefits: Understanding fascia can enhance collaboration between different healthcare disciplines, leading to more comprehensive patient care.
Technological Advances: Innovations like ultrasound elastography and fascia-focused MRI are revolutionizing our understanding of fascia but are not commonly included in educational programs.
Patient Education: Empowering patients with knowledge about their fascia can enhance compliance and outcomes, an aspect often neglected in traditional teaching.
Why did I create all this?
Fascia and Fascia Science Changed the Trajectory of My Occupational Therapy Career
Thirty-two years ago I was taught myofascial techniques by a senior colleague. This experience confused me since fascia was something we threw away during our dissection lab and we were not taught anything about its relevance to our practice. My experience with fascia set me on a 30-year journey in understanding what it is and how it can help us achieve better health and function.
Fascia science is so much more than a technique. I have learned so much and want to continue to propel my profession and all the professions we work with forward in our understanding of the human anatomy and function.
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Learning Objectives:
After the completion of:
Integrating Fascia Science into Occupational Therapy Practice: Elevating Our Understanding of the Human Body and Improving Our Outcomes
Learners will be able to:
- Identify and describe the anatomical structures and physiological functions of fascia.
- Explain how fascia contributes to force distribution, coordinated movement, efficient movement, protection, proprioception, interoception, pain perception, and immune system function.
- Implement skills in observing and assessing the condition of the fascia, understanding the implications of fascial tension.
- Develop skills in explaining fascia and its interrelationship with other body systems as means for communicating with patients and other healthcare providers.
- Apply professional and self-care techniques within the occupational therapy scope of practice that focus on fascial health and wellness and support functional outcomes.
Quiz at completion with a certificate for 10 hours of CE.
Continuing Education Credit FAQ
How many CE hours will I get for completing this course?
We estimate this course will take approximately 10 hours to complete. This includes all the readings, activities and videos.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes! Once the course and the quiz are completed, you will atomically receive a certificate.
Can I use this course for NBCOT renewal?
Yes! Our courses meet the requirement s for NBCOT Certification Renewal Requirements ID #18 or #19.
Can I use this course to renew my state license?
Our courses meet state licensure requirements. However, these can change, and it is up to each participant to know their requirements. You can find your state by logging into AOTA or searching "your state, occupational therapy, licensure renewal requirements".
The state of Nebraska example:
008.01(B) WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, WEBINARS AND CONFERENCES. The content of the continuing education activity must relate to occupational therapy whether the subject is research, treatment, documentation, or education management, and includes monitored videotapes, and in-service programs. Documentation must include a certificate of attendance and a program outline or objectives. One hour for each hour of attendance.
Are your courses AOTA approved?
Not at this time. Being an AOTA approved provider is not a requirement for CE credit (and it is a very expensive process). As a small CE provider, we do hope to go through this process in the near future but for now we want to keep creating great courses!
We have many courses that will elevate your practice and further expand your ability to apply fascia science!
