Massage Training: Advanced 400 Massage Program Curriculum
Our Massage Continuing Education Advanced Neuromuscular Therapy Program, for those who have had prior training in massage therapy, and for graduates of the 744 program, is an advanced massage training in neuromuscular massage therapy. These graduates work with injury rehabilitation, pain management, and special needs clients in a variety of health care settings, and in private practice.
Graduates of the Advanced Neuromuscular Therapy Program will be able to evaluate and differentiate between myofascial pain or dysfunction, as opposed to injury, and to employ effective techniques to address these issues with significant client results. They will be able to work as Massage Therapists in Pain Management settings such as Hospitals, Doctors' offices, Physical Therapists' offices, Rehabilitation Centers, in high-end spas and resorts, with sports teams and Sports Medicine settings, and as private practitioners with independent or referral-based clients. Our Continuing Ed Massage Training takes therapists to another level of bodywork.
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Curriculum Descriptions
- Advanced Deep Tissue
- distinguish between "deep" as in "heavy pressure" and "deep" in terms of finding and feeling the layers of the muscles. Advanced massage training indeed.
- Cadaver Lab
- students get to actually see the "layers" of fascia and muscle they have studied, learn to distinguish arteries from veins, and see the body organs fully enveloped in fascia
- Critical Analysis of Client Needs
- learn to take the information clients give, assess it against your background of anatomy, and plan a customized session to address their concerns
- Injury Prevention
- explore how to work with a client's pain and dysfunction before it becomes an actual injury, explain the process to a client, and set up the appropriate number of sessions to get specific results
- Injury Rehabilitation
- learn to break down scar tissue, apply PNF stretches, employ lymphatic techniques, deep transverse friction, and post surgical massage to clients who have been medically diagnosed with a particular condition
- Longevity in the Massage Profession
- discover how to provide deep work without using much pressure, how to respond to client injuries, and achieve very real results
- Myofascial Therapy
- understand the connection between muscles and fascia so that you will be able to free the muscles from painful entrapment
- Neuromuscular Therapy
- distinguish between a tight muscle and a clinical condition, apply effective massage, and educate the client on how to engage the muscles in a healthy way
- Orthopedic Massage
- explore specific assessment tools to determine if massage is appropriate for a certain condition, or if you should refer the client to another health professional
- Pain Management
- obtain skills to assess if a muscle is the actual cause of pain, and apply appropriate massage
- Re-Invigorating Your Business
- add exciting new dimensions to your professional work, to increase your business, by collaborating with other health care professionals and being able to work with clients with special needs
- Skills for Clinical Sports Massage
- find out the causes of an injury in order to coach the client on what activities to avoid while healing, and design a series of sessions to initiate the healing
- Skills for Medical Massage
- learn in-depth client history-taking, strategizing, and collaboration with other health professionals
- Soft Tissue Injury and Healing
- study the physiology of soft tissue injury to determine what stage of injury the client is in. also learn the usual causes of soft tissue injury, and be able to educate clients on avoiding re-injury
- Somatics
- study posture and learn to re-educate the brain to start releasing long-held patterns through very specific exercises
- Trigger Point Therapy
- understand the real nature of a muscle "knot", the common name for a Trigger Point. distinguish between Active, Latent, and Satellite Trigger Points and how to relieve the pain they cause
Important information per the Code of Federal Regulations is available including the federal occupational profile, related occupations, graduation rates, median debt of graduates completing this program, program completion, placement, gender/ethnicity breakdowns, and more.
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