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Understanding Lower Limb Injuries

Understanding Lower Limb Injuries

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  • On-Demand course

  • Advanced level

Description

This course is intended for anyone who has already undertaken basic body massage/sports massage training, who would like to further their knowledge of common conditions that affect the lower limbs, from a more medical viewpoint, with self help measures that they can suggest to their clients.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • to extend your knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the lower limbs

  • to develop your knowledge of the common lower limb injuries that clients may present, to know the causes and risk factors and to recognise the symptom

  • to identify preventive and rehabilitative self help measures that you can suggest to clients

  • to offer massage treatments with a more medical/sports focus

Accredited by the IGCT. 21 CPD Points.

Course Content

6 sections27 lessons
INTRODUCTION3 lessons
  1. 1COURSE CONTENT
  2. 2LEGISLATION
  3. 3PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY5 lessons
  1. 1THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
  2. 2THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
  3. 3THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
  4. 4THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
  5. 5A&P QUIZ
CALF INJURIES4 lessons
  1. 1CALF STRAINS
  2. 2CHRONIC EXERTIONAL COMPARTMENTS SYNDROME
  3. 3CALF HEART ATTACKS
  4. 4CALF START UP PAIN
MISCELLANEOUS6 lessons
  1. 1QUAD INJURIES
  2. 2HAMSTRING INJURIES
  3. 3WHY THE BACK MAY NOT BE THE CAUSE OF BACK PAIN
  4. 4PLANTAR FASCIITIS
  5. 5SHIN SPLINTS
  6. 6MASSAGE FOR THE AMPUTEE
KNEE INJURIES8 lessons
  1. 1COMMON CAUSES OF KNEE PAIN
  2. 2IT BAND SYNDROME AND LATERAL KNEE PAIN
  3. 3VASTUS LATERALIS V THE IT BAND
  4. 4MENISCUS TEARS
  5. 5RUNNERS KNEE
  6. 6TORN KNEE LIGAMENTS
  7. 7KNEE VALGUS
  8. 8KNEE VARUS
FINAL ASSESSMENT1 lessons
  1. 1Final Assessment

About The Provider

I qualified in Swedish massage and Preheat treatments back in 1997, and while I continued to use my massage qualification, my main career was as a surgical nurse and then a midwife on a high risk unit. After another 9 years of working with mainly physically disabled children and...
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