B2R internship: Testimonials
Ben Goodall, Chiropractor.
The internship has been so great, and I can't believe that 12 weeks have gone so unbelievable fast! After the internship, I now feel more confident than ever on how to deliver a package of care for persistent pain clients.
All the way from useful tools to gather important information about for example unhelpful thoughts and beliefs that need to be challenged and reconceptualized. Skillset on how to deliver pain neuroscience tailored to the clients needs based on information gathered and of course how to help a client to set goals and together set a plan for the goal! (Shared decision making)
The movement classes with Sam have been brilliant!
It has been a pleasure to explore the variety of movement our body can do, and how to prescribe it using different cues like imagination, verbal cueing, external objects and coordination!
I would highly recommend this internship to anyone and I cannot clarify it enough. Thank you so much to the B2R team and every guest lecturer, it has been a pleasure!
Dag-kjetil Kristiansen Norway
PT, Rehab Trainer
“From the perspective of a personal trainer, the B2R Internship gave me tools to help my clients move with less fear and with more hope and confidence.
It offers movement professionals the means to address movement reluctance or fear in ways that invite clients to experience in their own bodies what might be possible. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”
David Wilson Canada
Movement Coach
“As a chiropractic student intern, the program filled a lot of holes that traditional education can not. It provided me with multiple lenses to look through regarding patient care beyond the standard biomedical model.
The most important aspect for me was confidence in the practical application of the lessons. This confidence has been represented in my patient care, I can communicate concepts far better and have gained better compliance as a by product. Truly grateful for the B2R team and continuing to navigate the material!”
Abanoub Guerges USA
Doctor of Chiropractic Candidate 2022
The B2R internship has helped me on so many levels. It bettered me both clinically and personally. It gave me clarity, and confidence in dealing with certain types of patients as well as dynamically, variability, and fun with exercise programming.
Contents range from pain science, behavior change, goal setting, play, non-linear pedagogy, dynamic systems theory, load management.Spectacular guest speakers. All was presented in an easy to digest way, yet very thorough. The support from Sam and Luke is outstanding.
An extensive syllabus is provided, full of additional movement sessions, lectures and research papers. All evidence-based. An amazing community of like-minded people. I could not have expected anything better than this. I highly recommend this course to any professional both in the healthcare and fitness industry. We are all in “the behavior change game”
Dr Giovanni Frapporti
Chiropractor. Italy
The Back2Roots Internship has given me an immense amount of confidence in prescribing a huge range of movement programs for clients.
I feel much more equipped to help people along the way of discovering their own path to a more active and healthful life.
Lee Dickerson USA
For the last 12 weeks my practice has been centered around lower back pain management and the complexity and plasticity of the central nervous system. My teachers @samemanuel and @lukeB2R have guided me through research, evidence and various ways to help others develop more fearless, thoughtless, confident movement.
Supported by the latest peer reviewed research and with my own personal experience working through it, this program hits on so many levels of human rehabilitation.
The material we worked through (and that I am continuing to work through) has already enabled me to bring new dimensions to the way in which I help clients. Sessions involve tasks, games and imagery that allow the mind to forget some of the inhibitions that may have developed with persistent pain and clients are regaining activities and ranges of motion, as well as the confidence to continue living without fear of detriment.
I can’t thank @samanthaemanuel23 and @luke_b2r enough for putting on such a spectacular internship on a subject that as Americans we continue to battle with on a regular basis. (Over 80% of Americans have experienced lower back pain) It has been a top notch educational experience.
Sam is an amazing teacher that I have been following for some time and the research and development of @b2r_health is ahead of the curve. The combination of the two has given me a deeper understanding of human movement and the power that is held within its variability.
I highly recommend this program and would be happy to chat with anyone that is over dealing with persistent pain or those looking to better understand the true potential of their ability to heal and move through this world without fear.
Ben Dickerson USA
This IS the way forward to being a truly authentic, evidence based, present pain practitioner. Stacks of relevant, easy to digest information, with well paced meetings and videos.
Easily implementable and exciting movement based practises for you and your clients/patients. But what makes it really special is the ability to discuss all your thoughts and implementations with your colleagues on the internship. Luke and Sam are more than information providers, they are your coaches and cheerleaders. I have found my tribe of professionals - thank you!
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Rebecca Johnson, Chiropractor
“The B2R Internship has been an amazing experience and learning circle for me. To have “found” a group of like minded individuals who are always looking and searching for more so that they can help guide others is an amazing feeling. These 12 weeks have been like no other and have made me feel mentally and physically alive in ways that I thought I had lost. I am so grateful.
The content on this Internship has been extremely well thought out, put together and executed. I have been exposed to and learnt so much. The guest speakers have been brilliant, knowing their individual crafts inside out. I have loved every chuffing minute of it!! 😊😊 As such I have signed up for the Loading Course starting in January 2022. I cannot wait!!
I am especially grateful to you Young Sam. I feel so lucky to have found you and that you agreed to help me work through my own personal pain journey. To show me how to move with/despite the pain and then how that movement and your amazing visualisations make me “forget” about the pain has and continues to be a joy.”
Tracey Morgan Personal Trainer UK
“So, I’m not sure where to start on how the internship has helped me. However what I do know right now, is that I no longer feel lost in the world of movement / pain and one dimensional approaches to movement and training. I have a focus.
I’m a trainee yoga teacher, but I also love strength training. I came into the internship feeling like I had a heavy weight on my shoulders; ‘you can’t lift weights in the gym if you want to be a yoga teacher’ - said many people in the yoga sphere.
The B2R internship has given me the confidence, and the know how to say, ‘you absolutely can do that!’ I have been introduced to so many inspirational people all over the world, and of course Sam and Luke. How lucky to be guided by such pioneers within the industry.
I will be the Yogi, weightlifter who has fun, but with a very serious narrative underpinning my teaching. The only weight I’ll have on my shoulders now, will be the ones I put there myself in training 😉.
Thank you for encouraging me to find my alternative.”
Danielle Jenkinson UK
“The B2R Internship was and still is a great experience. Luke, Sam and Paul (and the rest of the team) are wonderful hosts and very authentic in what they are doing which makes the whole experience even more intense and fun.
From my point of view they are absolute geniuses when it comes to practical application of contemporary evidence based medicine. As a student I always struggled to implement the theoretical content of papers, books, studies and guidelines into my practical work with patients.
B2R showed me a great way to do that. I could write a whole essay about the Internship and its many gems but to make it short:
If you are interested in working contemporary, evidence-based, meeting wonderful people and having more fun in your work as a trainer and/or healthcare professional, then the Internship is the place to be :)”
Ben Schreiner Osteopath Berlin Germany
“I signed up for the Internship knowing that I want to work with Back to Roots through the lense of Occupational Therapy and pain rehabilitation in a whole person approach. I want to work with people and actually make a REAL difference, not just slap a band-aid on it and close the case because that's what my supervisor said I should do.
I had some knowledge of pain education through my own OT studies, research and being exposed to Lukes work, but what I lacked was a more in-depth understanding, a structure that would make sense to me, something that I could link the movements to science. I wanted to be a part of something that was bigger than me, to learn and connect with others in a way that I knew I wouldn't be able to get from learning on my own. I wanted to have a library of movements that I could use to help people- and interesting movements that meant something, not just for the sake of doing an exercise.
Sam and Luke have 100% delivered EVERYTHING I wanted. I have yet to get through all the material and this was the only thing I wished were different, having more TIME. I would have liked to digest all the material and movement classes and then talk about it with the other students each week, but this was an impossible task with my schedule. But I know I can still connect with the others on the internship and continue to develop my understanding through slowly applying it with my own work. I have been able to draw upon my learning and apply it to some patients on my OT placement which has ignited my excitement that I had at the start.
Thank you again for being excellent teachers. It has been a wonderful experience to be a part of.”
Occupational Therapy Student