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Understanding Upper Limb Injuries

Understanding Upper Limb Injuries

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  • On-Demand course

  • Intermediate level

Description

This course is intended for anyone who has already undertaken basic body massage/sports massage training:-

  • to further their knowledge of common conditions that affect the upper limbs which may lead clients to book a treatment, with self help measures that they can suggest to their clients

  • to introduce them to upper limb injuries prior to undertaking a sports massage course

  • to gain further insight into upper injuries from a more medical viewpoint after undertaking sports massage training

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • to extend your knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the upper limbs and chest

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

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

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

  • to recognise the benefits of breast massage


Accredited by the IGCT. 14 CPD points.

Course Content

INTRODUCTION
  1. COURSE CONTENT
  2. LEGISLATION
  3. PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
  1. MUSCULOSKELETAL:THE CHEST
  2. MUSCULOSKELETAL:THE SHOULDER AND THE UPPER BACK
  3. MUSCULOSKELETAL:THE ARM
  4. THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
  5. THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
  6. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
  7. A & P QUIZ
SHOULDER INJURIES
  1. DELTOID MUSCLE STRAINS
  2. SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT
  3. SLAP TEARS
  4. SHOULDER DISLOCATION
  5. ADHESIVE CAPSULITIS (FROZEN SHOULDER)
  6. WINGED SCAPULA
  7. THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME
ARM INJURIES
  1. ARM INJURIES
  2. TENNIS ELBOW
  3. GOLFERS ELBOW
  4. TYLER TWIST EXERCISE
  5. CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
CHEST INJURIES
  1. CHEST MUSCLE INJURY
  2. PEC GAP
  3. RIPPLING MUSCLE DISEASE
  4. BREAST MASSAGE
NECK INJURIES
  1. TORTICOLLIS
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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