Balanced ligamentous tension course / TMJ

BLT Course attendance certificate

This course was unexpectedly brilliant! I only went because a colleague kept telling me how amazing it would be and I was scared to miss it, but I wasn't really convinced. UNTIL NOW! It was along similar lines to the balanced membranous tension techniques we had been discussing in IMS recently. I could really feel structures unwinding as both practitioner and patient. Sadly, I was absolutely shattered (two days after the OSPE / end of the manic spring term) and faded fast after lunch, but managed to hang on half heartedly until the end. I definitely want to learn more of this. It is  very gentle way to work and would be lovely for the pregnant ladies and the old folks! For anyone in fact. I had happy hands again.


We were given a manual about TMJ in technique and I can't describe how much this pleases me, so here it is; a prime example of what I have spent all of this time trying to create for every area of the body. This is going to save me lots of time and I might even become quite adept at treating the TMJ as a result, as I've got something to work from straight away when practising! For the second time this year, I pleaded with a tutor to be given any written information at all for technique, but there is nothing available yet. I keep hearing how I am meant to be able to work it out for myself at this level. Fair enough, but what level I wonder - I'm certainly not on it yet! Below it is an example of my hastily scribbled notes from fourth year technique class, that I struggle to decipher afterwards and this year am finding particularly difficult to split into the individual techniques / modifications (as I try to work it all out for myself)!

A manual - just what I need!

                 Notes from technique class