Manual therapy workshops tend to skip over the nervous system entirely; explanatory and treatment models tend to focus on tissue instead. The reality is that the nervous system manages 100% of everything, is only 2% of the human body, and uses 20% of available oxygen and glucose to do so, day and night. Another reality is that there are 45 miles/72 kilometers of nerves in the human body, each millimeter connected with the vascular system; everything we do, manually, affects that neurovascular array, and the nervous system of the conscious person we treat. Can we learn to interact favourably with nervous systems in a treatment setting?  Dare we?

In this hands-on workshop participants will be introduced to the nervous system, current thinking on why it’s there, how it got there, what it is, what it does, what it needs, how to help guide it toward improved motor output and less pain.  Participants will be provided with visuals and downloads that will familiarize them with all spinal nerves and neural plexuses in the body, and will be guided through a novel non-tissue based set of assumptions about human pain and physical dysfunction – assessment and treatment approaches for cutaneous and motor nerves of the whole body, from C1 to the coccygeal plexus, from top of head to tips of toes.