The North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork(NCSAB)
At NCSAB, We Will Start YOU on Your Path to Become An EXPERT In Medical Massage Therapy, including Neuro-Musculo-Fascial Bodywork
WHY A Clinical / Medical Massage Therapy & Myo-Structural Bodywork School?
. . . Because . . .
From CDC Weekly / April 14, 2023 …During 2021, an estimated 20.9% of U.S. adults (51.6 million persons)bhb inexperienced chronic pain, and 6.9% (17.1 million cc TV persons) experienced high-impact chronic pain (i.e., chronic pain that results in substantial restriction to daily activities)
Rikard SM, Strahan AE, Schmit KM, Guy GP Jr.. Chronic Pain Among Adults — United States, 2019–2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2023;72:379–385. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7215a1.
From NIH News Releases / May 16, 2023 … Overall, the study found that the rate of chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain (HICP) among adults is approximately 21% and 8%, respectively. Chronic pain is pain that is experienced on most days or every day in the past three months; and HICP is pain that limits life or work activities on most days or every day during the past three months. The links between the widespread burden of chronic pain and the country’s opioid epidemic underscore the urgency to understand and address the issue of pain.
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OUR MISSION is to Educate & Support YOU In Becoming a Leading Edge Therapist in Medical Massage Therapy, Structural Balancing & Musculo-Fascial Therapy
… HERE’S HOW WE DO IT …
Myo-Structural Factors in Posture, Pain & Dysfunction
The NCSAB believes there is a fundamental lack of understanding of how postural distortions directly and negatively impact the human body. Many people are not aware that poor posture very often leads to musculoskeletal pathology, including neuromuscular, myofascial, and various myo-structural issues.
“Myo-” refers to the muscular system, including the muscle fibers, the musculo-fascia, and the nerves controlling them.
Yet in OTHER cases, but no less important, it is the opposite. …
Musculoskeletal pathology and pain can affect structural & postural balance and distortions. Either way, these factors are critical to recovering and optimizing the Health & Function of the Human Body & Mind of your Clients.
And while Pain is very often an indicator of such “soft tissue issues,” at other times, their Postural Distortions are far MORE important than where the pain is. Sometimes, the pain distracts you from where your Client’s problems really are.
In Our Medical Massage Therapy & Myo-Structural Balancing School …
… we teach you how to distinguish the many, and often little-known, differences in determining & treating what your Client’s TRUE source of pain or dysfunction really is. Our advanced medical massage training sets you apart from the “standard” training in most massage schools “out there.”
Our Clinical / Medical Massage Therapy School uses Structure & Posture as a Core Focus for your Therapeutic Education, helping you develop your Strategy & Tactics for recognizing, analyzing & treating such conditions.
* Kinesiology is the Science … of how and where bones move when one or more muscles pull on them. … There is the simple one muscle, one bone interaction. Then there are the more complex actions of multiple interactions between more than one muscle and one or more bones. …
At the SAB, you’ll study Kinesiology so you can more precisely evaluate which specific muscles are most responsible for a Client’s or Patient’s pain or dysfunction. This provides a more efficient & effective approach to tracking down soft tissue issues many, if not most, therapists have trouble resolving.
Passing the MBLEx: The North Carolina Licensing Exam
An important criterion in determining the school offering you the best education is the pass rate on the Massage & Bodywork Licensing Exam (MBLEx). We maintained a 100% pass rate for 5 years. Most states require a passing grade on this test to qualify for licensure, which affords you the privilege to practice in that state. It is offered at testing centers all over the country including 3 in the Charlotte area.
Your NCSAB instructors are highly experienced practitioners and are living and breathing experts and specialists in soft tissue therapeutics.
Even if you have no background in massage therapy, our staff will take you step-by-step through the process of learning the basics. Upon graduation, you’ll understand and be competent and efficient in treating the most common soft tissue pathologies experienced by the vast majority of Clients.
TO OBTAIN AN APPLICATION:
Please Be Our Guest and Observe A Clinical / Medical Massage Therapy Class
Attending one of our Kinesiology* Lectures (Wednesdays) will help you Understand & Determine whether our approach is something You want to learn and work on within your Career.
WE ASK ALL PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS TO ATTEND A KINESIOLOGY LECTURE ANY WEDNESDAY
JUST SHOW UP at 9 AM OR 5:30 PM ANY WEDNESDAY
You may stay 20 minutes or the entire class.
820 Tyvola Road, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28217
There is no Better Way to Choose a School than to Participate in a Class. You are Welcome to attend any Wednesday Kinesiology Class, where you’ll see the most important elements of what makes us different.
Once we have determined we are a good fit, we will offer you our application and walk you through the enrollment process.
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We Want You as Fully Informed as Possible. …
Though it is Optional to Read, further below is a Detailed Description of our School: Who we are, What we are offering You, How it all works, and What we are Educating You to do for after you Graduate. …
Yet if you are pressed for time, The Essentials are in the Previous Paragraphs, above. But if you want more SPECIFIC DETAILS, keep on reading below, or use the Table of Contents (in the Menu to the Right), taking you to each section of information you’ll find on this page.
Thank You for Exploring What the NCSAB has to Offer You.
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You Too Can Become An Expert At Structural Balancing:
Relieving Pain, Lost Range of Motion, “Weakness,” Poor Posture, and Many Other Dysfunctions by Resolving Postural & Myo-Structural Imbalances
Utilizing Clinical / Medical Massage &Myo-Structural Balancing
Structural Balancing: A Clinical Approach … is the 380-page, Primary Textbook for the Neuro-Musculo-Fascial Theory & Therapy classes at the Schools of Advanced Bodywork in Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida.
Structural Balancing & Postural Evaluation
Structural Balancing refers to the overall analysis of the Client’s Personal “Big Picture.” It includes various elements of their health history, what kinds of exercise or stretching they do, what accidents they’ve been in, and so on. …
Postural Evaluation is a highly specific examination of where their bones are in space, and relative to each other. This helps you understand which are the most over-shortened muscles. These are very often where a Client holds the most tension, stress, and even trauma, and are usually the very first muscle(s) to address in a proper Myo-Structural Balancing Therapy Session. …
The “Myo-” refers to the actual treatment of the muscle(s), which by traditional definition INCLUDES the Myo-FASCIA, to bring the Client’s physical structure back into proper balance.
Our advanced approach to myo-structural bodywork and medical massage therapy at our school in Charlotte, NC includes addressing and eliminating postural distortions caused by muscular tension and myofascial imbalances. We believe the body’s inefficient opposition to gravity can cause many forms of musculoskeletal pain.
You will discover how the body’s inefficient opposition to gravity can cause musculoskeletal pain and many other problems people face on a daily, hourly basis.
In other words, gravity forces the body’s weight to shift off the bones and onto the muscles. This shifting, altering, and compensating often leads to the formation of local pain points, trigger points (referral of pain to distant areas), deviations (un-evenness) in hip & leg lengths, distortions in the pelvis and spine (misalignments), depressed or elevated shoulder girdles, collapsed (stooped or slouched) upper body, forward neck & head positioning, and many other ailments.
Our objective is to have students focus on musculo-fascial units that are overly “locked short” from C.E.M.&.N.T. (Chronic, Excess, Muscle & Nerve Tension & Stress), specializing in resolving muscular imbalances linking poor posture, musculoskeletal pain, a wide variety of dysfunctions, and restriction of body movements.
Yet sometimes, pain from other causes distorts the posture. Learning to SEE and Understand these many factors sets YOU apart from other practitioners.
AND, YOU will KNOW how to Recognize those differences, and What to DO about them.
This is one of THE most common postural distortion patterns many people have, and YOU will know what to do about it.
Here is Kyle C. Wright (his hand, anyway) treating a Client’s psoas muscle, as well as a side view of the psoas muscle and one of the more common pain patterns psoas is in many cases responsible for.
Hands-On, Clinical / Medical Massage & Bodywork Therapy
Our unique approach to Skillful Resolution of Chronic Muscle Tension & Stress (AKA “tight muscles”) and the many problems it causes is the primary skill you’ll be developing at the North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork.
With the addition of this Clinical / Medical Massage Therapy School in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city regains the teachings of one of its early contributors to the enhancement of clinical and structural bodywork, Kyle C. Wright, LMBT
Many of our Clients* over the years have been to many forms of therapy — including various kinds of massage and bodywork such as Rolfing®, neuromuscular, myofascial, deep tissue therapy, acupressure, etc. — searching for relief from a variety of soft tissue and musculoskeletal related problems.
Yet they had not found sufficient or complete relief until they experienced our unique approach to soft-tissue therapy, originally brought to Charlotte (and Jacksonville, Florida) by Mr. Kyle C. Wright in 1994 and further developed over the years since.
We take your relationship with Your Clients very seriously. To that end, here is a Great Definition of a CLIENT:
* Client: One who is under Protection of another.
~ Webster’s Dictionary
Compare that to the definition of a patient:
able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious: be patient, your time will come.
a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment
This distinction should be obvious and hopefully encourages you to take a much higher perspective on how important you are to your Clients.
This skill — and the related knowledge — is what will set YOU apart from many, if not most, of the therapists out there today. We encourage our students to work at a higher standard of Professionalism and Interaction with their Clients.
What we find is so many of the conditions and Soft Tissue Issues people — Your Clients — suffer from is Chronic, Excess Musculo-Fascial & Nerve Tension & Stress. This is, of course, a long way of saying:
“Tight Muscles”
But Relaxing, Releasing & Relieving “Tight Muscles” is NOT just about The Muscle. Every muscle fiber group in the body is controlled by a nerve pathway emanating in the Central Nervous System (CNS) and/or Brain and traveling down the spinal cord to the “cord level” sensory / motor circuits that receive information from the muscles, and respond with command to either contract or relax.
When the CNS & Brain are sending too much Nerve TONUS to the musculo-fascial units, the muscle stays chronically contracted and tight. All kinds of problems emanate from that. It is not till that nerve tonus is reduced that the muscle(s) can relax.
The Primary Objective of our work is to use conscious, manual contact with skin, muscles, and fascia to “talk to,” to engage your Client’s CNS & Brain — and in many cases their Mind — such that those neural structures can calm down and reduce their excess activity.
THAT is what makes your Client’s muscles RELAX.
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In Our Highly Specialized Program, You’ll Soon Be Learning To Reduce or Resolve Such Chronic Pain Problems.
ForMore Details on how we work with each of the conditions described in the column to the right, you can go to THIS PAGE.
Conditions You’ll Learn to Treat:
Sciatica
Headaches
Low Back Pain
Plantar Fasciitis
Stooped Posture
Knee/Elbow Pain
TMJ Issues
Forward Head Posture
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Neck & Shoulder Pain
And Many More Chronic Pain Issues For Which Many Have Not Yet Found Relief.
A Deeply, REALLY Relaxed Kitty!
DEEP, Radical Relaxation Solves MANY Problems!
How Would It FEEL? …
How Would It Feel? … For Your or Your Client’s Body To Have Every Single Muscle Fully Relaxed and Resilient, Ready for Action, All of the Time?
How Peaceful and At Ease would you be? What would happen to your Stress Levels?
How Would It Feel? … For Your Muscles To Be INSTANTLY Able To Act & React with No Resistance? … That Your Mind’s Intentions Immediately and Precisely Create Your Body’s Actions? … How confident and ready for anything would you be?
How Would It Feel? … For Your Body To Be Perfectly Upright, with Effortless Great Posture, and Full of Energy? … How differently would people see you? How would they respond to your very presence in a room?
Yet, even with all the strength & power you could have (and maybe already do), the MOMENT you’re done with any movement or action, your Muscles instantly return to their Fully Relaxed State, quietly resting & rejuvenating, waiting for your next command to action?
And you do this without drugs or being hooked up to special gizmos or electronic devices.And what if you accomplished all this NOT by killing yourself in the workout room?And that you don’t even have to break out into a sweat to accomplish most of this?
