Posted by Joe Rongo on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 @ 05:44 AM
ki·ne·si·ol·o·gy
n.
1. The study of the anatomy, physiology, and mechanics of body movement, especially in humans.
2. The application of the principles of kinesiology to the evaluation and treatment of muscular imbalance or derangement.
Thomas Myers’
“Anatomy Trains”
with Peter Ehlers
Location: La Quinta Inn & Suites 2000 S. Lakeside Drive
Bannockburn, IL 60015
Hotel Reservations for ASIS Anatomy Trains Participants: 1-847-317-7300
August 20-22, 2010
Friday 5:00-9:00 pm
Sat & Sun 9:00am – 6:00pm
Anatomy Trains is a revolutionary new way of looking at the body
developed by author and Rolfer, Tom Myers.
This three-day course is the basis for all advanced work and offerings of Tom Myers’, Kinesis, and KMI Structural Integration Professional Certification.
In this 3-day Anatomy Trains intensive you will:
· Explore the nature of the fascial web
· Learn how the fascial web is organized into Anatomy Trains
· Learn how the Anatomy Trains distribute strain and cause pain far from the problem
· Build skills in ‘body-reading’: global patterns in posture & movement
· Develop manual & movement strategies for resolving these patterns
· Learn soft-tissue techniques for lengthening myofascial structures.
This course is designed for all manual and movement therapists, from chiropractors and osteopaths, to PT’s and massage therapists.
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Posted by Joe Rongo on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 @ 06:40 AM
"Physical therapy’s purpose is to restore neuromuscular functioning after some damage,
whereas massage therapy has systemic effects.
It influences your immune system, your endocrine system, your cardiovascular system."
Deepak Chopra
Posted by Joe Rongo on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 @ 03:52 AM
NCTMB Exam & ASIS Massage Education
Mr. Rongo,
This is Mr. Michael Harling a recent graduate of ASIS Rock Valley College writing to you. I recently had an appointment to take my National exam Saturday the 25th. The reason for this message is to inform you that I passed the test and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you, ASIS, and the wonderful instructors for my educational experience. As I was completing the test, I realized that all of the anxiety was a complete waste of time. My instructors had me prepared for all to come, especially the Kinesiology section of the program/test. Once again thank you for my educational experience and how well it prepared me for the "BIG TEST".
I would accept any offers in the future for furthering my education through your reputable program. I would relish the experience to meet additional instructors as talented as; Mr. Frazier, Mrs. Debenedeto, Mrs. Landers, Ms. Boehning and especially Ms. DiMaria. You certainly have done your homework in your search for positive role models for this chosen profession. I will get back to you if I have a change in my current finances. Joe, thank you again for what has turned out to be one of the better experiences of my life.
Respectfully,
Michael S. Harling
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What are the content areas of the tests?
Each exam is comprised of 160 questions. The content area(s) and their associated weights for each respective examination program are detailed below.
National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCETMB)
Major Content Areas and Percentage Weights |
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Subject Area |
Percentage of
Examination |
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General knowledge of body systems |
16% |
| II. |
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Knowledge of anatomy, physiology and kinesiology |
19% |
| III. |
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Pathology |
13% |
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Therapeutic massage and bodywork assessment |
18% |
| V. |
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Therapeutic massage and bodywork application |
22% |
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Professional standards, ethics, business and legal practices |
12% |
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TOTAL |
100% |
Posted by Joe Rongo on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 @ 05:56 AM
ASIS would like to offer a big thank you to our friends and
teaching faculty at our Illinois Campuses...
This makes 3 successful years!
College of Lake County
Rock Valley College
All Schools are currently enrolling students!
Thank you Lynn Destry for the photos
Posted by Joe Rongo on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 @ 04:42 PM
Have we found the basis for empathy and altruism?
Like most great scientific breakthroughs, the discovery of the human mirror neuron system (MNS) was a complete accident. What may end up being the most important neuroscientific discovery of the twenty-first century was uncovered serendipitously because of an ice cream cone.
In 1995, scientists at the University of Parma in Italy were studying monkeys’ brains with electrodes — small wires that could detect if neurons in the outer layers were giving off electrical signals. As the monkeys ate peanuts, the cells would fire in sequences, showing activity of the mouth and tongue (chewing and tasting), the hand and arms (reaching), and the fingers (cracking the shell and handling the food). One afternoon, the experiments were running late and the research technician realized that he might miss lunch, so he left the monkey hooked up to the electrode recorders and headed to his favorite bistro. Pressed for time at the end of the meal, he grabbed a gelato and took it with him back to the lab. While he rechecked the instruments, getting ready for the afternoon’s studies, he licked away at his ice cream cone. The monkey hooked up to the recorder followed him around the room with its eyes.
When the technician returned to the cellular tracings, he was shocked. Even though the monkey had only been watching him eat the ice cream, the neuronal firings recorded in the primate’s cortex were what one would have expected to see if the monkey had actually been licking and eating the dessert. The macaque showed the same electrical patterns in its brain as those that would have appeared in the technician’s cortex. In other words, the monkey’s brain was “mirroring” what was happening to the technician as he ate his ice cream.
The accidental discovery was puzzling. Why would a person’s (or a monkey’s) brain fire as if it were experiencing something when it wasn’t? The team decided to investigate further. They fed the monkeys peanuts and measured how much the cells of the motor cortex fired. Then they had the monkeys watch as the technician ate a peanut. The results were the same whether the monkeys were eating the peanut or watching it being eaten. And there was another twist: if the monkeys simply heard the sound of a peanut being cracked open, even when it was out of their sight, their brains showed the same firing pattern as if they were cracking open and eating the peanut themselves.
The question remained: What purpose could such an “imitative” neuron system have? Researchers began to look at baby primates. They watched as young monkeys imitated both the mouth movements and facial expressions of their mothers. The same phenomenon was known to occur in humans: babies smile when they begin to imitate the expressions on their parents’ faces. As the communication abilities of the human ancestors developed, individuals also had to learn to imitate the movements of the lips and tongue of the older individuals in the troupe. In this way, the young hominids learned to make similar sounds — and gradually acquired language. They also learned to closely imitate with their hands. They watched others throw spears and start fires. The watching caused their brains to start firing as if they were actually doing the actions themselves. The action they saw was mirrored in their brains so they could more easily learn to do it themselves.
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Posted by Joe Rongo on Fri, Jul 23, 2010 @ 01:53 PM
Psychology is an applied discipline that involves the scientific study of human or animal mental functions and behaviors. Psychologists are classified as social or behavioral scientists. They attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring underlying physiological and neurological processes.
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Structuralism: These psychologists believed the chief purpose of psychology was to describe, analyse, and explain conscious experience, particularly feelings and sensations. The structuralists attempted to give a scientific analysis of conscious experience by breaking it down into its specific components or structures. The structuralists primarily used a method of research called introspection. In this technique, subjects were trained to observe and report as accurately as they could their mental processes, feelings, and experiences.
Behaviourism was introduced in 1913 by the American, John B. Watson. Watson and his followers believed that observable behaviour, not inner experience, was the only reliable source of information. This concentration on observable events was a reaction against the structuralists' emphasis on introspection. The behaviourists also stressed the importance of the environment in shaping an individual's behaviour. They chiefly looked for connections between observable behaviour and stimuli from the environment.
The behaviourist movement was greatly influenced by the work of Ivan P. Pavlov & B. F. Skinner.
Gestalt psychology believes that human beings and other animals perceive the external world as an organized pattern, not as individual sensations. The German word Gestalt means pattern, form, or shape. Unlike the behaviourists, the Gestaltists believed that behaviour should be studied as an organized pattern rather than as separate incidents of stimulus and response. The familiar saying "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts", expresses an important principle of the Gestalt movement.
Psychoanalysis was founded during the late 1800's by the Austrian doctor: Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis was based on the theory that behaviour is determined by powerful inner forces, most of which are buried in the unconscious mind. According to Freud and other psychoanalysts, people repress desires or needs that are unacceptable to themselves or by society. The repressed feelings can cause personality disturbances, self-destructive behaviour, or even physical symptoms.
Psychology today has continued to develop in several directions:
A group of extreme behaviourists called the Stimulus-Response School believe all behaviour is a series of responses to different stimuli. According to these psychologists, the stimulus connected with any response can eventually be identified. As a result, stimulus-response psychologists regard behaviour as predictable and potentially controllable.
Another group of psychologists, who are known as the Cognitive School, believe there is more to human nature than a series of stimulus-response connections. These psychologists concentrate on such mental processes as thinking, reasoning, and self-awareness. They investigate how a person gathers information about the world, processes the information, and plans responses. Noam Chomsky helped to ignite a "cognitive revolution" in psychology when he criticized the behaviorists' notions of "stimulus", "response", and "reinforcement".
Social Learning Theorists argue that the child's environment could make contributions of its own to the behaviors of an observant subject.
Humanistic Psychology believe individuals are controlled by their own values and choices and not entirely by the environment, as behaviourists think, or by unconscious drives, as psychoanalysts believe. The goal of humanistic psychology is to help people function effectively and fulfill their own unique potential.
Many psychologists do not associate themselves with a particular school or theory. Instead, they select and use what seems best from a wide variety of sources. This approach is called Eclecticism.
Existentialism pioneered a new breed of psychology, which included existential therapy, in the 1950s and 1960s. Existential psychologists differed from others often classified as humanistic in their comparatively neutral view of human nature and in their relatively positive assessment of anxiety. Existential psychologists emphasized the humanistic themes of death, free will, and meaning, suggesting that meaning can be shaped by myths, or narrative patterns. Austrian existential psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl drew evidence of meaning's therapeutic power from reflections garnered from his own internment.
Body Centered Psychotherapy is a distinct branch of psychotherapy with the intent of bringing awareness to the client’s own felt sense. At the same time, it involves a different and explicit theory of mind-body functioning that takes into account the complexity of the intersections of and interactions between the body and the mind, with the common underlying assumption being that a functional unity exists between mind and body. Although many other approaches in psychotherapy touch on this issue, Body Centered Psychotherapy considers this principle to be fundamental. Hakomi is a form of body centered psychotherapy. Wilhelm Reich can be included in this movement with his early work on Character Analysis. This concept is accepted by Psychoanalysis and most other modalities of psychotherapy, yet his Characteranalytic Vegetotherapy, which involves direct contact and touch with the body of the patient, is definitely not accepted by most in the profession.
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Posted by Joe Rongo on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 @ 10:13 AM
The first Good Samaritan Law was enacted in 1959 in California, specifically to protect from liability "persons licensed, who in good faith, render emergency care at a scene of an emergency... for civil damages as a result of any acts or omisions."
Most states have immunity laws of their own! generally, a Good Samaritan law protects a person who is not being paid for their services from liability or gross negligence.
Posted by Joe Rongo on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 @ 06:33 AM
IN ROCKFORD ILLINOIS
Become Certified to teach Infant Massage to parents and caregivers! Participants receive in-depth training in the implementation of infant massage instruction.
This is a parent education program based on family strengths using nurturing touch and massage to promote the physical and emotional well-being of babies and young children. Parent instruction occurs in small parent-baby classes, in private sessions or in community parenting programs.
Requirements to become a Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM) include participation in the four-day workshop, and completion of a home study course which involves practice-teaching with five parents and successful completion of an open-book, written exam.
What students need to bring:
Doll to use when practicing and demonstrating the massage strokes. A doll with flexible limbs that is at least 20 inches long is recommended. If you are planning to purchase a doll, the LaBaby (brand name) newborn doll is recommended. This doll is usually available at Toys-R-Us for $25-$30. Infant Massage USA sells a variety of dolls through their website, including dolls with Hispanic, African, Asian and Caucasian features. The website is www.infantmassageusa.org <http://www.infantmassageusa.org/> Please have your doll looking as lifelike as possible; dressed appropriately, including diaper, with receiving or thermal type blanket. It is recommended to bring socks to cover feet during teaching the parent classes.
DeAnna Elliott, International Trainer, and Documentary Film Producer DeAnna has been training in Infant Massage for over 28 years, since 1982. She is producer of a documentary film: Cellular Echoes: Environmental Influences in the Journey from womb to the world. This film is about imprinting from preconception into the early years. It includes contemporary scientific information and tribal birth wisdom in a cross-cultural exploration of this phenomenon in animals and humans.
Olga Morris, Family Nurse Practitioner, Nationally Certified Massage Therapist
Olga is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Massage Therapist in a local family medical center. She integrates massage modalities in a nurturing and supportive manner and has introduced Infant Massage in a health care setting. Olga brings over twenty years of clinical medical practice and application, as well as an enthusiasm and honor for the process of relating the structure and function of the human body to the practice of massage.
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Call to Register: 928-639-3455
or toll-free ~ 866-334-3348
CEUs: 28 for the 4 day course, additional 28 for the home study, for massage therapists through NCBTMB and for Registered nurses through the California Board of Registered nurses.
Additionally accredited for occupational therapists through AOTA.
Cost: $650.00,
NANMT members may have a discount bringing tuition to $595.00
Posted by Joe Rongo on Sun, Jul 18, 2010 @ 05:23 AM
Although it was reported as a wholesale victory for Monsanto, the recent Supreme Court decision on "Roundup Ready" alfalfa has actually put food activists in a good position to maintain the ban on Monsanto's genetically engineered GMO seeds.
The court ruled that the planting of GMO alfalfa is still illegal, but it assigned authority to the USDA to determine whether to allow some provisional planting to go forward as soon as next spring. The responsibility for maintaining a total ban on the GMO seeds -- and protecting organic crops from likely contamination -- now falls squarely on the shoulders of USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.
The court supported farmers' claims that the USDA illegally allowed Monsanto to sell its seeds before a full environmental review could be completed, but Monsanto knows that it can use its power within the USDA to speed up the review process. The company has already requested that the USDA permit a so-called "partial deregulation" that would allow some plantings of Roundup Ready alfalfa before we know the full risks.
A landmark element of the recent Supreme Court ruling was its recognition that the USDA must take into account economic harms from genetic contamination of conventional seed by genetically engineered seed - things like the loss of export markets or loss of organic certification, as well as the risks to the environment of this "gene flow" effect. Monsanto wants the agency to ignore those risks and let them plant now.
We can't let them. Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman Peter DeFazio delivered a letter signed by over 50 lawmakers demanding that the USDA not legalize GE alfalfa....
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Posted by Joe Rongo on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 @ 01:00 PM
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Part psychoanalyst, part detective, Dr. O’Mahony had to listen to the cues and decide what to do next.
Most doctors do not excel at delivering bad news, decades of studies show, if only because it goes against their training to save lives, not end them. But Dr. O’Mahony, who works at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, belongs to a class of doctors, known as palliative care specialists, who have made death their life’s work. They study how to deliver bad news, and they do it again and again. They know secrets like who, as a rule, takes it better. They know who is more likely to suffer silently, and when is the best time to suggest a do-not-resuscitate order.
Palliative care has become a recognized subspecialty, with fellowships, hospital departments and medical school courses aimed at managing patients’ last months. It has also become a focus of attacks on plans to overhaul the nation’s medical system, with false but persistent rumors that the government will set up “death panels” to decide who deserves treatment. Many physicians dismiss these complaints as an absurd caricature of what palliative medicine is all about.