Rebooting the Brain

Boulder School of Massage Therapy

$150.00

50% of all proceeds will be donated to the Boulder School of Massage Therapy

Concussions affect far more than the brain — they disrupt sensory processing, autonomic regulation, body awareness, balance, and movement confidence. This 2–4 hour continuing education workshop introduces massage therapists to a modern, neuroscience-informed framework for working with clients recovering from concussions or persistent post-concussive syndrome (PPCS).

You’ll learn how manual therapy can influence neural threat modulation, proprioceptive recalibration, and autonomic balance, and how to pair touch with vestibular, visual, and interoceptive training to accelerate recovery. Through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice, participants will explore assessment strategies, clinical reasoning, safe intervention progressions, red-flag screening, and scope-appropriate referral.

This course is ideal for therapists working with athletes, chronic pain clients, and those experiencing dizziness, balance issues, sensory overwhelm, headaches, or altered body awareness following head injury.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• 1. Identify common symptoms and neurophysiological changes associated with concussion and PPCS.

  2. Explain how manual therapy can influence sensory processing, threat modulation, and autonomic regulation.

  3. Perform basic propriosensory and vestibular drills appropriate for post-concussion care within massage therapy scope.

  4. Integrate interoceptive awareness strategies into treatment to support nervous system regulation and pain reduction.

  5. Apply a clinical decision-making model to safely progress manual therapy and movement-based interventions.

  6. Recognize red flags and appropriate referral situations (neurology, vestibular PT, neuropsychology, etc.).

  7. Develop a simple treatment progression combining manual therapy, sensory retraining, and client self-care practices.

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