Workshops with Earle Abrahamson
Key Principles of Rehabilitation
for MSK Issues
This workshop is designed to support massage therapists in effectively providing rehabilitation exercises and advice to their clients. The workshop will cover principles of rehabilitation by carefully explaining how to develop, design and implement different exercises. In addition, participants will be able to consider when best to regress or progress exercise and develop an evidence-based approach to aftercare. The main focus will be on rehabilitation exercises for the knee, ankle, hip and shoulder. Through the workshop participants will be able to consider how effective their treatment and advice is in relation to injury management.
The workshop is open to all participants and will integrate theory with practice. Participants are asked to dress in shorts or comfortable clothing so that they can practise the techniques shown.
What Massage Therapists Need to Know about Bone and Joint Chronic Conditions
This workshop is designed to support massage therapists in thinking clinically and critically about treatment for chronic orthopeadic conditions. Most soft tissue work often relates to acute issues. This workshop uses a discussion and practice informed approach to consider a range of chronic bone and joint conditions. These will be presented with key guidance and guidelines for treatment and include (back pain, spinal stenosis, fibrous dysplasia, replacement surgeries, paget’s disease, marfans disease, scoliosis, osteogenesis imperfecta, osteonecrosis and rheumatoid disease). Participants will further development assessment techniques to enable effective decision making around client treatment and position. The workshop is largely theoretical with connections to treatment techniques and practices.
Bio
Earle Abrahamson is a teaching and learning specialist at the University of Hertfordshire. In addition, he is an internationally published author, therapist, psychologist, educator, consultant and teaching fellow. He has worked actively in education and complementary therapies, specialising in sport and exercise massage and rehabilitation. He is former chair of the Massage Training Institute (MTI), Chair of the General Council for Massage Therapies (GCMT) and registrant board member on the CNHC. He is a principal fellow of Advanced HE, National Teaching, Fellow of the ICNM and an inaugural ISSoTL fellow.
Earle is a practising therapist having previously served on the CNHC Massage PSB from its inception.
He has written numerous texts including: Sports Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention (2010); Making Sense of Learning and Teaching Human Anatomy (2016) and Muscle Testing: A Concise Manual (2019).
Earle has worked as a lead therapist at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In 2017, he was invited to provide soft tissue therapy services at the World Athletics Event. Earle was part of the sports massage service team at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games held earlier this year. Earle regularly contributes articles and vlogs to industry specific publications and outputs and campaigns for raising educational standards and practices within soft tissue and complementary therapies.
