Class Info

Non-DIRI Affiliated courses are offered by non-faculty members who have completed their Advanced Training. Certificates are issued by the member for Elective CE Credit. Inquire with the member regarding NCBTMB approval.

Details

In this course, you will learn to assess and treat fibrotic changes in synovial capsules, including joint capsules, bursae, and tendon sheaths, and also some non-synovial joints.

Joint capsules, bursa walls, and tendons get stuck to things they should glide on. In addition to becoming stuck to things they should glide on these structures can lose elasticity and may be pulled short. These adhesions and contractures create movement restrictions and alignment problems, often severe ones. All of our clients have numerous fibrosities of these two types. In this course, you will learn to identify and correct these adhesions and contractures precisely. Assessment is often done on a 1 mm scale, allowing precise placement of gentle forces to restore elasticity and glide.

This is a three-module course.
Module 1 Concepts, Methods, and Application of These methods to all synovial structures in the Upper Limb. Feb 6-9, 2025
Module 2, Lower limb, May 22 - 25, 2025
Module -3 Axial August 7-10, 2025

Tuuition $800 per module

About the instructor

Jeffrey Burch received a BA in biology from the University of Oregon in 1975. He then trained at The Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® in Boulder, Colorado, and received his Certification as a Rolfer in 1977.
Jeffrey Burch received his Rolfing Advanced Certification in 1990, after which he again began studying at the University of Oregon where he received a second BA in Psychology in 1993 and a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology in 1995. His Master’s thesis reseach “Alexithymia and Dissociation” demonstrated correlation between two psychlogical concepts related to psychosomatic conditions.

Jeffrey has been a member of the Rolf Institute Board of Directors. He served for many years on the Rolf Institute Ethics Committee. He founded the International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI) Yearbook journal. He is a member of the Rolf Institute research committee.
In 1998, Jeffrey began intensively studying CranioSacral Therapy through the Upledger Institute, Cranial Manipulation with French Osteopath Alain Gehin, and Visceral Manipulation with Jean-Pierre Barral and his associates. Jeffrey completed the apprenticeship to teach visceral manipulation. He teaches internationally and offers foundational and advanced courses in assessment and treatment methods.
Starting in 2010, he began developing groundbreaking new methods to assess and release adhesions and contractures in joint capsules, bursas, and tendon sheaths. He now teaches these methods.

He has authored a book titled.
Assessment and Treatment Methods for Manual Therapists,
The Most Effective and Efficient Treatment Every Time
published by Handspring Publishing