Rockford, IL
OCTOBER 25-26, 2025
Rockford, IL OCTOBER 25-26, 2025
Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques®
Brain-Based bodywork for chronic pain (16CE)
This popular workshop features special video animation, anatomy dissection, and several head-to-toe techniques to enhance your skills as a manual therapist. The workshop presentation is stimulating for visual learners, while relaxed practice sessions with highly skilled teaching assistants will delight all you kinesthetically attuned therapists.
You will learn Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques® to assess and correct:
- Nerve mobilization
- Foot & ankle issues
- Plantar fasciitis
- Knee & hamstring issues
- SI joint & pubic symphysis
- Piriformis issues
- Sciatica
- Low back pain
- Greater trochanteric bursitis
- Thoracic spine
- Cervical spine restrictions
- Spinal stenosis
Our goal is to enhance your skills, improve your results, and build your practice to a level of excellence that goes beyond the standard expectation of what can be achieved through traditional bodywork training. Be prepared for outstanding results, even with long standing chronic conditions!
Upgrade your skills, increase referrals and elevate your clients to a new state of health… the MAT way!
Upon successful completion of this workshop, you will earn CE hours for your bodywork licensure, recognized by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB), Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) and most State Licensing Boards. You will have also taken a step toward completing your Master Myoskeletal Therapist (MMT)® Certification.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Jane Detert has been a physical therapist assistant for 25 years and has been teaching massage for the past eight. This dedicated practitioner takes pride in helping clients, whether it is chronic back pain or helping an athlete perform at their optimal level. After studying MAT, getting her Master Myoskeletal Therapist (MMT)® certification and successfully implementing MAT in her personal practice, she is eager to share her knowledge and teach advanced techniques to other practitioners, whatever their background.
WORKSHOP LOCATION
Rock Valley College
3301 N Mulford Rd.
Rockford, IL 61114
HOTEL RECOMMENDATIONS
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Rockford-Loves Park, an IHG Hotel
7552 Park Place Road, Loves Park, IL 61114 US
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SURROUNDINGS
ROCKFORD, IL
Rockford is a city in northern Illinois. Downtown, the Burpee Museum of Natural History features a dinosaur exhibit. Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum offers rotating exhibits in a Victorian home. Rockford Art Museum exhibits regional American works. The sprawling Anderson Japanese Gardens is across the Rock River. Northeast, Rock Cut State Park shelters muskrats, raccoons and waterfowl. Rockford, IL
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
Day 1 – October 25, 2025
7:30am Registration and Set up
8am – 5pm Workshop
Day 2 – October 26, 2025
8am-5 pm Workshop
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- Bring a massage table, face cradle cover, and sheets.
- *If arriving by air please let the educator know you may need a massage table and they can arrange one for you
- Dress in comfort, sportswear recommended
WORKSHOP CANCELLATION POLICY
If you need to cancel your registration for a MAT workshop, please contact Kim Miller at [email protected] as soon as possible.
The Freedom From Pain Institute offers a refund for cancellations made up to 30 days prior to the workshop start date, minus a $100 administrative fee. Cancellations made within 30 days of the workshop start date are non-refundable. Please note that the workshop fee is subject to change.