Sports Massage, Ron Vaughn, AIM’s sports massage graduates have gone on to achieve great things including moving into allied professions such as osteopathy, chiropractic and physiotherapy, as well as occupying highly respected and rewarded positions working at the highest levels of professional sport. Once qualified these learners have been able to utilise these skills to either set up as a standalone sports masseur or to combine their sports massage work with their personal training – an excellent combination, and one which differentiates these individuals, both in terms of knowledge and skills. Sports massage involves the use of individual client assessment, massage, related soft tissue techniques and post-treatment advice to manage, manipulate and rehabilitate the various soft tissues of the body. It can be applied to alleviate a variety of aches and pains, whether they arise in a sporting or recreational context or simply from the stresses of modern life. Clinical issues – sports massage regulation, professionalism and ethics, Continuing Professional Development and communication skills, Anatomy and physiology of the major body systems with in-depth knowledge of the musculoskeletal system, Sports massage techniques, including: palpation and basic strokes, Soft tissue dysfunction and injury, Supporting soft tissue repair – aiding clients’ return to function. Sports Massage Therapy is designed to take a sports masseurs practice to the next level by advancing their therapeutic skills. Focusing on more advanced client assessment, advanced sports massage techniques and post-care advice skills the certificate prepares learners for the real life demands of client work. Students will also learn a range of advanced neuromuscular and soft tissue techniques that optimise treatment outcomes as well as how to plan and program client’s post-care work to best support any treatments given. Additional Course Contents: In depth assessment methods and techniques, Identifying injury and dysfunction, Advanced massage techniques including frictions, trigger point therapy, soft tissue therapy etc. Devising treatment plans and post care. Lecture Number 10