Desiree Nowaczyk, Physical Therapist Assistant, Yoga Instructor, ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Green Living Coach, and Holistic Life Coach

The information within the course was complete, useful and well supported. The pictures in the manual are amazing and compliment the overall layout of the course.  I appreciated the links which provided a means for additional learning. The authors presented the material in an organized, in depth yet, easy to understand manner. It has been a pleasure corresponding with Gina. She is compassionate, knowledgeable and professional as demonstrated through her materials, inspirational tips and prompt responses. Professionals and clients will benefit from tissue therapy as a means for postural enhancement, pain reduction, injury prevention and overall wellbeing. This course is certainly one I will recommend to fellow therapists and trainers.

I look forward to personally applying and educating others on the importance of Muscle Therapy. The fact that we can learn to manage our discomfort is empowering. It has been a true blessing gaining these new insights. I am grateful for this course.

I look forward to sharing the information with colleges and clients. In the future I intend to teach classes to share the knowledge I have obtained.

As a Personal Trainer, Yoga Instructor and Physical Therapist Assistant I have the privilege of working with a very diverse group. I train and treat individuals of all ages and abilities. The Foam Roller, Tiger Stick and the Back Knobber, along with other useful pieces of equipment will serve as great tools for my patients, clients and students.

I have gained an understanding of the complexity of the tissues within the body along with the ability to properly and conscientiously care for them.

The information has already proven to be of great importance in the Physical Therapy Clinic. Each day I work with individuals with various injuries and musculoskeletal complaints. I am now equipped to provide an explanation of the nature of trigger points, how to prevent them and provide self-care. Until this point I was manually releasing trigger points for my patients. Now I will encourage individuals to use foam rollers and massage tools as a means for proper management of their tissues.

Grace Power, General Manager and ACE/ACSM Certified Trainer, Corporate Fitness Site

A great tool I use all the time. The textbook is fabulous and easy to follow. Each time I use it I gain more insight and knowledge. I can apply the knowledge from this course to my daily work. This course gives trainers the additional tools they need to help their clients and members overcome their muscular issues. Once we help our members and clients get better they can return to normal function and back into the gym. I highly recommend this course. The topic is advanced, but every trainer and therapist should have this in their library.

Cori Morse, Massage Therapist and ACE Certified Trainer

Wonderful Course! A much greater understanding of how pain effects the body.

And how to get rid of that pain!! This stuff WORKS! It’s one of the best continuing education courses I have taken recently. I will use it on my massage therapy and personal training clients and I will educate my massage therapy and personal training clients in this type of self-care!

If more personal training clients were interested in incorporating this type of work into their sessions I think they would retain more clients. Giving your clients a great workout is only part of the battle. Personal Trainers have to bring something special to their sessions beyond just a great workout and solid nutritional education. They need to prove to their clients that that care about their entire wellbeing. This is a HUGE part of wellbeing and a HUGE way to show your clients that you truly care about them feeling their best and being pain free!!! Not to mention – you’re more likely to workout when you’re not in pain!

Alicia D’Alliessa, ACE Certified Trainer, Corporate Fitness Site

Great course, very educational with a lot of information on self-help and pain management. I enjoyed learning about trigger points and experimented with myself. I learned that my back pain may be triggered by my calves and that is a sensitive area for me. I liked learning about where the trigger points are located and being offered a few options as to where the pain may be coming from. I have learned that sometimes pain does not always stem from the area it is located. Pain can manifest in different parts of the body for many different reasons. I’ve gained the knowledge to help clients identify where their pain may be stemming from and how they can help them treat it. This course helped outline different approaches to identify trigger points in the muscles and treat pain non-invasively and with varied techniques (i.e. foam roller, tennis ball etc.).

Cassandra Henkiel, ACE Certified Trainer, Master Trainer

Great information for any fitness professional to add to their knowledge base regarding pain and trigger point with great techniques to self-care. This course has expanded my knowledge as a trainer to better educate my clientele about pain, trigger points and ways clients can help themselves with self-healing techniques. I gained knowledge about trigger points in what causes, how to identify and deactivate them. Also many effective ways of self-healing techniques.

Michael Anders, AFPA Certified Professional 

It has been very beneficial to dive deeper into the soft tissue issues that we trainers cannot access directly. I can provide my clients with tools that will help them manage knots, soft tissue issues better in between massage therapy or chiropractic sessions.

Robert D. Griffith, AFPA Certified Professional 

I gained tremendous knowledge and insight to how trigger point management can improve performance and spare further injury from the Muscular Performance SelfTherapy Specialist Course. I will use the knowledge gained for self-therapy, as well as demonstrate to others how they may do the same. Thoroughly enjoyed and learned a great deal from the course; could have truly used this 20 years ago. Today, I will be a voice of more experience with greater knowledge.

Monika Olson, NASM Certified Professional 

I gained a greater insight into causes of the myofascial pain experience by many of my clients. I will apply by educating my clients in self therapy to relieve myofascial pain. The course contains a lot of relevant material to my practice. I will also be able to use this information personally!

Dawn Crilly, AFPA Certified Professional 

I gained an understanding of trigger points and self-treatment for myself and clients. It’s common for clients to have muscular issues so it will be nice to be able to refer clients to methods that will improve their health and wellness. It was a good course and contained valuable and pertinent information.

Holly A. Dufour, AFPA Certified Professional 

I learned how to lessen/eliminate pain and speed up recovery from the Muscular Performance SelfTherapy Specialist course. I will be able to help clients greatly with pain reduction, thus allowing them to thwart off surgery and lessen or eliminate medication. As soon as I started the course, I found it useful for myself and wanted to help others with the material I learned.

Lauren Alexander, NASM Certified Professional 

I gained more knowledge about pain and stress management through self care techniques. The course material will help me in continuing to study and educate myself about trigger points and myofascial release therapy so that I may help others, including my personal training clients. The layout was very good. The book was well-written, and I liked that there were pictures and graphs b/c i am a visual learner.

Virginie Bruggeman, WITS Certified Professional 

This course will be extremely helpful to help clients treat specific pains in their body. I will suggest to my clients to buy the book and do trigger point therapy. Most useful course I have ever taken for my personal training certification.

Andrea Carlomusto, WITS Certified Professional 

I have learned new ways to implement techniques of stretch in accordance to trigger points. Already using trigger point, (not knowing it was an actual therapy) I have seen positive changes in myself and with clients while rectifying problems such as muscle compensation that leads to other ailments.

Mala Davis, WITS Certified Professional

Great course. Has help manage my pain on my shoulder. I can help my friends and family.

Isaac Nef, ACSM Certified Professional

I now know the specific areas to work on to help my clients. I now have another tool for treating clients that complain of pain.

Amisha Muljii, NASM Certified Professional 

Very informative. Easy to read and execute.

Jim Ogle, WITS Certified Professional

I learned the importance and relevance of trigger point therapy. I will let others know about trigger point therapy and how self-massage can help. Very interesting course with substantial content to utilize and share with others.

Alvin Massey, WITS Certified Professional

I feel much more knowledgeable about pressure points and different ways to deactivate them. I will rule out pain from pressure points before assuming that the pain is from something more serious.

Cindy Fagiano, ACE Certified Professional

A lot of good information. A thorough job explaining what the muscles do and how they respond to pain and how to alleviate. This was a new and different program and well designed.