Tampa Bay Chapter Meeting - September 15, 2022
Symbiotic Relationships:  Muscles & Their Effect on Balance with Florence Barber-Hancock (2 CEs)
FL CE Provider # 50-1413 | FL Course # 20-908452 | General Hours

Hybrid Meeting (LIVE & Zoom) - Erwin Technical College, 2010 E Hillsborough Ave, Tampa, FL 33610
Chapter Meeting starts at 6:00pm | CE presentation begins at 6:45pm  
No cost for FSMTA members | $30 for non FSMTA members

Symbiotic Relationships:  Muscles & Their Effect on Balance
This presentation focuses on symbiotic muscle relationships, what they are, how they can affect dysfunction & pain, how to use your current modalities & a NEW approach for specific treatment and how to evaluate symbiotic relationships to improve treatment planning. A brief review of the 4 Primary Righting Mechanisms (Vestibular, Ocular, Head-on-Neck Righting Mechanisms, and Proprioceptors in the Feet) will further understanding of the influence of these Righting Mechanisms have on posture & musculoskeletal pain. This class also includes a review of Major Posture-Related Muscles of the Neck (SCM, Upper Trapezius, and Muscles of the Sub-Occipital Triangle) and why dysfunction in these muscles is critical to function and balance.

About the presenter:
Florence ‘Flo’ Barber-Hancock, L.M.T., Ph.D specializes in neurosensory rehabilitation.  She has been an LMT in solo practice in Tampa, FL, since 1997.  Her therapeutic treatment is focused on pain relief, joint mobilization, and pediatric disorders.  Over the last 15 years, she has developed a new and unique cranial therapy – Facilitated Pathways InterventionSM  (FPI), the topic of her Ph.D. dissertation.  With her husband, Dr. Dallas Hancock, Flo has developed the CranioSomatic concepts and treatment approaches presented by their organization, Hancock CranioSomatic Institute.   She enjoys teaching and doing presentations in various settings.  She has taught her FPI therapy and other CranioSomatic techniques in several states and foreign countries over the last 24 years.     

For more information, please contact Tampa Bay Chapter President, Anna Allen, at [email protected].