Advanced Program – Orthopedic Massage

**10% discount for TLC students/grads**

Orthopedic Massage Techniques and Assessment designed by our faculty and inspired by the work of  Whitney Lowe will give you the skills to resolve 50 different conditions.  Improve your understanding and competence in treating musculoskeletal problems. Assessment, even basic evaluation, is increasingly considered to be a critical tool in understanding a client’s problem, and then finding the most effective treatment forthat condition.

Learn how soft-tissues function in health and injury, what roles tissue play in the body, and the primary ways in which soft-tissues are damaged. Techniques include range-of-motion, manual resistive, and special testing, as well as how to utilize problem-solving with deep massage, myofascial release, trigger points, deep tissue work and active release techniques.

Jan Hutchinson, BS, LMT, MTI, CNMT, CZB graduated in March 1969 from the University of Minnesota with distinction in Physical Therapy. Her massage therapy training was completed at The Third Coast School of Massage Therapy and licensed in November 1986. Jan has been certified in Neuromuscular Therapy from Judith Walker in 1991 and in Zero Balancing from Dr. Fritz Smith in 2001. She is a Massage Therapy Instructor and teaches courses in pathology, pharmacology, advanced deep tissue, Myofascial release and postural analysis. After 20 years, Jan enjoys consulting with massage therapists actively problem-solving long-standing structural/musculoskeletal problems with their clients. She has had a private practice in Northwest Austin since 1992.