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A Massage Therapist's Guide to Treating Neck Pain
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A Massage Therapist's Guide to Treating Neck Pain

A complete evidence based certificate course on treating your massage client's neck pain and pinched nerves
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • In this neck pain certificate course you will learn an evidence based approach on how to successfully treat neck pain and pinched nerves
  • You will no longer just give your massage clients a massage for their neck pain and HOPE that they feel better
  • You will understand the mechanisms that keep people's necks sensitized and painful and know EXACTLY what to do for them
  • You will have a complete skillset to competently treat your massage client's neck pain, disc bulges and pinched nerves

Course content

9 sections55 lectures4h 31m total length
  • Welcome to the course! Taking it to a new level2:01

    Welcome to the course!

  • How to get your own personalized certificate for your wall—or a CEU certificate!1:09

    How to get your own personalized certificate for your wall—or a CEU certificate! directly from me when you complete the course

  • This course will give you a massive advantage over other massage therapists!2:51

    Why you should be treating your clients like this.

  • Download your client's Ebook3:20

    Here are your Ebooks for your clients to email them

  • NEW! Convert your Ebooks into a word document so that you can modify them!3:38

    I have just realized that you can change the PDF documents in your resources to word docs with this free tool and then you can modify them if you want to add your own spa name, logos, website etc.

  • Why you MUST get your client to stop doing these things to really help them4:16

    This is probably the most important part of any neck pain treatments

  • The vast majority of your clients will have this problem causing pain5:25

    If you want to get great results you really need to educate your clients about the FHP.

  • What happens to the muscles and discs and how you can help them5:10

    Once you understand what's happening in FHP, you can then educate your clients and it will help them enormously.

  • If it hurts them it harms them keeping thus keeping them sensitized and in pain5:43

    You need to help these things first before you do any massage for your client with neck pain

  • What about if you are not sure, what do you do?1:51

    Checking for red flags. Always be safe and don't try to do something outside of your skillset

  • What to look for with a pinched nerve3:22

    These are thai hand reflexology things that you need to know when symptoms are radiating from the nerves in the neck

  • The 2 best exercises to remove their neck pain and pinched nerves8:15

    These exercises are simply THE BEST when used for your neck pain clients

  • If they have too much pain, this exercise should be given2:35

    What to do if your client cannot do the exercises from the last lecture

  • How to advance the exercises to get them out of pain3:22

    Here is another option that you can give them

  • Here is an exercise for pinched nerves and one-sided pain4:25

    Here is another option for you to give your clients. I explain when and why you would give these.

  • You may be able to diagnose this fault by knowing these symptoms2:31

    Here is something that you should keep in the back of your mind

  • What to do with a neck thats still really stiff3:29

    What to do for clients that have decreased range of motion in rotation

  • Walking-a great therapeutic tool.1:41

    Here is something that you should recommend to your clients

  • Should you advise your clients to use ice or heat?1:46

    This is a question that you will get a lot. What is the answer? Here I explain it simply

  • How to summarize all of that for your client5:04

    How to tell your client about the causes of neck pain and what they need to do in a couple of minutes

  • Do NOT be this massage therapist!10:12

    This is a major problem that the vast majority of massage therapists do which not only affects their business but also their success rates with healing their client's pain.

Requirements

  • Everything is included in this course for you.

Description

In a massage therapist's guide to treating neck pain certificate course, you will learn a comprehensive evidence based system on how to successfully treat neck pain, disc bulges and pinched nerves on your massage clients and also your OWN neck pain that will change the way your approach your massage client's pain.

Imagine the next time someone comes to see you for a massage complaining of having neck pain or a pinched nerve and you will confidently KNOW what is needed to treat them confidently and successfully based on the research of what we know works and what does not.

After doing this certificate course, you will have a complete skillset to competently treat your massage client's neck pain  and you will quickly become known as the massage therapist that is an expert in treating neck pain no matter how severe, acute or chronic it is.

You will no longer just give your massage clients a massage for their neck pain and HOPE that they feel better! Or worse still, recommend things that are in fact keeping them in pain.


I will take you step by step in a methodical evidence based approach so that whenever a massage client comes to see you with neck pain or pinched nerves in the future you will know EXACTLY what to do and recommend to them.

NO MORE GUESSWORK!

One of the biggest problems for massage therapists is not knowing how to treat both acute, chronic and episodic neck pain and pinched nerves successfully.

No more doubts or questions like these anymore:


  • What stretches should you give them?

  • What exercises should you recommend to your massage clients?

  • What things harm necks and what you need to tell them to avoid?

  • Which stretches should you NEVER recommend to your massage clients?

In this course, you will learn exactly what to do for your massage clients and for yourself no matter whether the pain is coming from disc bulges, facet joints or even spinal stenosis in an easy to follow systematic approach.


Become a master at treating neck pain and pinched nerves today!

Who this course is for:

  • For massage therapists that want to have an evidence based approach to treating neck pain and pinched nerves that is based on research. This course is for those that want to take the guesswork and the 'hit and hope' approach to treating neck pain no matter what the underlying causes are.