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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

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