Muscle Memories

Muscle Memories: Strengthening Your Musculoskeletal Knowledge

Instructor, Dave Campbell BA, LMP

Student Comments:

"I would take this class over and over again and highly recommend it to others!" ~Student, 2008

"Even though I've taught Kinesiology for 10 years, I learned some new things!" ~Student, 2008

"I learned many new tidbits of information I never before knew! I also learned some great techniques to use on the massage table." ~Student, 2008

"An inspirational refresher on the fascinating way we're put together." ~Student, 2008

Want to refine the precision and depth of your practice? Applying muscle knowledge quickly and accurately is one important way to do it.

Let's face it - many of us learn the muscles in massage school and then slowly lose precision in our command of this important foundation. Yet fluently applying our knowledge of the musculoskeletal system is a must - not only as a baseline for effective technique, but also as a means to refine the subtlety, depth, and power of one's work.

This class will re-energize your knowledge of the musculoskeletal system and how the body moves so that you can effectively apply it in your day-to-day practice. In so doing, you will refresh and deepen the foundation underlying all of your current bodywork techniques. Our focus will be to revive and reorganize your hands-on knowledge of muscles, joints, and bones in a way that naturally brings recall while you're doing your hands-on work.

This class, based on Dave Campbell's book Mastering Muscles & Movement - A Brain-Friendly System for Learning Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Basic Kinesiology, will provide you with a clear and do-able path to rebuild your command of this body of knowledge. Dave's dynamic, precise, and strategically organized approach will set you on a path to quickly amp up your command of this important foundation of knowledge. The book is also designed to be a easy in-office reference for personal review and client education. To get a better idea about the book and associated materials, please go to www.musclesandmovement.com

In this class we will:

• Review all structures, using a brain-friendly approach.
• Support all learning with visual and verbal materials, demonstrations, games, and hands-on practice Explore a variety of hands-on bodywork techniques for the neck, shoulder, hip, and other structures as examples of how to apply this brain-friendly method of learning and recalling musculoskeletal knowledge.
• Dissect and evaluate your current favorite bodywork techniques to better understand the neuromusculoskeletal implications of your work - Come to class with comments and questions about your current modalities.

You will leave this class with:

• A re-energized appreciation for functional anatomy
• An improved ability to recall and apply musculoskeletal information while your hands are on the body
• A clear path to continue on your own to master the system of muscles and movement
• A lattice-like muscle memory structure in your brain, on which to continue building and reinforcing your fluency with musculoskeletal recall and application

While learning, you will be able to:

• Support your brain in doing what it does best: Compare and contrast, see patterns, perceive interrelationships, and "come at" the information from different directions.
• Anchor the information in your brain with multiple "hooks", providing the rich cross-neuronal connections that are essential for fluent recall and use.
• Support your learning from many directions: visual, verbal, relational.
• Use the book's precise and uncluttered presentation to clarify common misunderstandings, and to illuminate facts and relationships that are often overlooked.

About the Instructor/Author/Illustrator:

Dave Campbell (LMP, NCTMB, CTP) is a licensed massage therapist and an instructor of kinesiology and cadaver anatomy at the Spectrum Center School of Massage in Lake Stevens, WA since 2001. He has been in practice for over 20 years and has an enduring fascination with the intricacies of the human body, mind, and spirit.

He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California and is a certified Trager® practitioner. Campbell, a former key engineer at the Fairchild Research Labs in Palo Alto, CA, developed his brain-friendly approach to teaching muscles and movement based on years of experience in the study of human perception, artificial intelligence, and graphic representation of scientific information. Dave maintains a full-time practice in Bellingham specializing in Trager Work and Craniosacral Therapy, augmented by a variety of other gentle neuromusculoskeletal release techniques.