This 16 hour seminar defines what Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® (BPM) is, how it works, and how it can be used by health professionals. A brief lecture covers the history of this modality, its inception and development. The importance of taking a person’s history is covered along with how to use it to determine a plan of treatment. Exercise and how it fits into Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® is explained.

"Quick Fix" Myotherapy is then taught with step-by-step instruction, demonstration, and hands-on involvement, with one instructor leading the work at the front of the room while another circulates around the room and helps the participants as needed. The whole body is systematically covered from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. Techniques designed to relieve backaches, headaches, shoulder & arm pain, hip & leg pain, hand and foot pain, and more are taught.

After each muscle group is detriggered, passive table stretches are taught to gently take the muscles through full range of motion. Corrective exercise designed to retrain the muscles to return to their full resting length and prevent the muscles from returning to a shortened position is taught after each body area is covered.

Also covered in this seminar is how to test key posture muscles for weakness and inflexibility which helps the therapist in determining which clients may be more susceptible to back pain and dysfunction. The Kraus-Weber test is taught along with specific exercises to do to correct any weaknesses and or inflexibility discovered.

Self-help and the prevention of pain and problems for health professionals is also stressed. How to work on yourself using Myotherapy tools is taught, along with what exercises should be done to prevent problems to begin with. Participants are brought through a fun and informative program of exercise for therapists, where daily movement is stressed and presented in an easy, amusing and entertaining way.

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In this seminar back pain and dysfunction are concentrated on. Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® definitions, history, and what it consists of are all reviewed.

In the hands-on section "Quick fix" Myotherapy for gluteals, low and upper back, abdomen, groin, hamstrings, and quads are all reviewed. "Basic Lines" are taught for gluteals, low and upper back, lateral scapula, hamstrings, and quads. "Clean Out" lines are covered for piriformis & quadratus lumborum.

After each muscle group is detriggered, the corresponding table stretches are covered, then after each section of the body corrective and adaptive homework exercises are taught. The Kraus-Weber test, corrective exercises, and its importance in back problems are reviewed.

In this seminar upper body pain, and problems are concentrated on including: headaches, shoulder problems, tennis elbow, whiplash, TMJD, carpel tunnel, and more. Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® definitions, history, and what it consists of are all reviewed.

In the hands-on section "Quick Fix" Myotherapy for upper back, shoulders, arms, hands, chest, axilla, neck, and face are reviewed, and "Basic Lines" are taught for these muscle groups as well. "Clean Out" lines are taught for Deltoid, Levator Scapula, Serratus Anterior, Scalenes, Subscapularis, pect minor and forearm.

After each muscle group is detriggered, the corresponding table stretches are covered, then after each section of the body corrective homework exercises are taught. Exercises specific to the upper body are taught along with resentence exercise for specific problems as well.

In this seminar lower body pain and problems are concentrated on including: hip problems, groin pulls, hamstrings and quad pulls, shin splints, leg cramps, plantar fascitis, long second toe, sprained ankles, pigeon toes and turnout, and more. Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® definitions, history, and what it consists of are all reviewed.

In the hands-on section "Quick Fix" Myotherapy for gluts, groin, thigh, leg, and feet are reviewed, and "Basic Lines" are taught for these muscle groups as well. "Clean Out" lines are taught for Groin, Quads, ITT, Popliteal Fossa, Peroneus and feet.

After each muscle group is detriggered, the corresponding table stretches are covered, then after each section of the body corrective homework exercises are taught. Exercises specific to the lower body are taught, along with a variety of exercise specific to walking using a wide variety of floor progression movements to achieve full range of motion in the legs and feet. These exercises are used to promote flexibility while encouraging balance, and strengthen weakened muscles.