Course

September 24 - 26, 2027

Instructor

Petr Bitnar, DPT PhD.

Course Payment and Organization

James Park, PT, Ph.D

+82 51 583 9645
+82 10 4433 4106(Cell Phone)

Complex Therapy for Trigger Points and Global Reciprocal Patterns

Introductory lecture:

a) Pathophysiology of TrPs                             

b) Clinical manifestations of TrPs                              

c) Basic chains of TrPs

d) Palpation and assessment of TrPs

e) Treatment of TrPs with a focus on global reciprocal inhibition

Practical session: 

Day 1:  

a) Assessment and palpation of TrPs

b) Local twitch response  and its importance during functional assessment              

c) Global reciprocal inhibition to treat TrPs

d) Joint restrictions related to TrPs       

e) Visceral dysfunction related to TrPs

f) TrPs and headaches – Overview of clinically significant TrPs, global reciprocal inhibition 

Day 2:  

a) Cervicocranial and cervical syndromes            

b) Cervicobrachial syndrome and painful shoulder syndrome

c) Thorax pain, breathing problems and diaphragm dysfunction 

d) Functional abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, prostatodynia and painful defecation

Day 3:  

a) Low back pain syndrome

b) Knee pain syndromes

c) Distal lower extremity pain syndromes

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