Introduction to Body Praxis

3 Hour Seminar

Are you among the growing number of dental professionals suffering from shoulder, neck, and/or back pain? Does your daily routine cause numbness and tingling sensations or chronic pain that impacts your ability to adequately treat patients? Body Praxis offers an exclusive structural redevelopment and wellness program to address the serious musculoskeletal disorders that afflict many dentists, hygienists, and other team members. We will review clinical observations, muscle recruitment, spine segmental mobility, and breathing techniques to restore function and alleviate pain. A unique training regimen will be introduced to address specific injuries and dysfunction caused by repetitive workplace positions and movements. This session will include a live assessment of those in participation and offer tips to maintain a healthy, pain-free body.

Course Objectives:

  • Develop self postural assessment, positioning, stabilization, and realignment to ensure correct biomechanics when sitting, standing, reaching, etc.
  • Learn advanced techniques and Pilates principles to retrain the body through oppositional movement patterning.
  • Learn the importance of muscle recruitment and balance, spine segmental mobility, and breathing techniques.

If you did not have an opportunity to fill out the evaluation form at the seminar, fill it out here:

Seminar Evaluation Form

A 7-hour full-day interactive seminar is also available!

BODY PRAXIS INTERACTIVE STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELLNESS WORKSHOP

Overview:

This seminar will address the serious musculoskeletal disorders that afflict dentists, hygienists, and other team members. We will review clinical observations, muscle, and spine anatomy, and introduce a unique training regimen using small apparatus. The sessions will include individual assessments of participants and will teach the importance of balanced muscle recruitment, spine segmental mobility, and breathing techniques to restore function and alleviate pain. The participants will be given a comprehensive home program with all the necessary equipment, including a Body Praxis Home Workout Kit.

Utilizing advanced techniques and Pilates principles, we will explore self postural assessment, positioning, stabilization, and realignment to ensure correct biomechanical alignment when sitting, standing, and reaching. We will explore a training regimen designed to address specific back, neck, shoulder, hip, and arm pain, as well as other injuries common to the dental profession caused by repetitive workplace positions and movements.

Call (716) 639-0200 today to schedule a Body Praxis workplace ergonomics seminar or to inquire about our CE courses available.

*Regionally Approved PACE Program

SEMINAR INFORMATION

UPCOMING SEMINARS

  • Westin PA Dental Society – November, 2024
  • Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Farmington, PA – 2024

PAST SEMINARS

  • Henry Schein ThriveLive May 2nd-5th, 2024
  • Henry Schein ThriveLive Las Vegas – 2023
  • Academy of General Dentistry Missouri – 2023
  •  Monongahela Valley Dental Society – 2023
  • Mid-Continent Dental Congress 2022
  • Florida Dental Association 2022
  • Dental Professionals of WNY 2022

PARTICIPANT COMMENTS

  • “Course Content excellent!”
  • “Practical and useful information”
  • “We understand for the first time why dentists experience pain and what they need to do to correct it”
  • “What I learned today has already made a difference in how I feel”

Read Some of Our Body Praxis Seminar Testimonials From Dental and Medical Professionals…