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Advanced Massage Techniques (AMT)

Available as Online (Distance-learning) and In-house Training.

Tutor: Jane Rose

In-house Location: Dorset

Distance-Learning Moderator: Jane Rose

Summary: Broaden your range of remedial skills in bodywork - refer less to other practitioners. Our Advanced Massage Qualification consists of 5 individual training days. Each of these is also a Post-graduate Qualification Course in its own right. In addition, if/when all 5 days are attained you are awarded with an Advanced Massage Qualification. To book any of the days, please look for the individual course links below.

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Distance-learning: CPD/Qualification
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Overview

Please follow the course links below to view details and to book on the individual days.

Individual days: Deep Tissue Massage (DTM), Strain/Counter Strain Techniques (SCS), Hands-Free Massage (HFM), MET & STD (MET), Trigger Points Massage (TRI).

This 5-day course is for those Massage and Bodywork Therapists who wish to update their knowledge. It assists Students to broaden their range of skills in Bodywork and facilitates increased awareness of issues of health and disease (physical and mental) in relation to the application of Bodywork Therapies.

For Bodywork & Massage Therapists

Course Content

Studies commence at 9.00 a.m. and finish at 5.30 p.m.

Please note that some of the topics listed below are given as home-study.

Strain/Counterstrain

Cautions and Contra-indications
Strain/Counter-strain Technique Demonstrations
Strain/Counter-strain Practice
How to incorporate into existing routines
Massage - Limitations & Boundaries
Muscular System
Philosophy of Change
Chinese Self-Massage

Muscle Energy Techniques

Palpation
Cautions & Contra-indications
Muscle Energy Technique Demonstrations
Muscle Energy Technique Practice
Soft Tissue Manipulation
Neuro-muscular techniques
Introduction to Scar Work
Stretching Exercises
Therapeutic touch
Main Muscles of the Body

Deep Tissue Massage

Soft Tissue v Deep Tissue - what is the difference?
Deep Tissue Techniques - when to use them
Palpation and how to find the problem(s)
Cautions and Contra-indications
Fascia Release Demonstrations and Practice
Deep Tissue Demonstrations and Practice
How misaligned vertebrae can affect the body
Working on the Back and how to adapt the techniques shown to use on any part of the body
How to incorporate the techniques into existing routines.
Review of the Muscular System

Trigger Point Technique

Palpatory Assessment
Cautions & Contra-indications
What causes Trigger Points
How to locate Trigger Points
How to treat Trigger Points
Stretching Exercises for Trigger-point Pain
Trigger Points for Fibromyalgia
Chinese Self Massage

Hands-Free Massage

Cautions/Contra-indications
Postural Analysis/Physical Assessment
Palpation
Spinal Analysis
Hands-Free Massage Techniques Demonstrations
Hands-Free Massage Techniques Practice
Incorporating into existing massage skills.
Carrier Oils

Please note: This Course is a Post-graduate qualification course during which, for each of the 5 days, the student is assessed for competence.

Certificate of Qualification awarded to successfully completing Students

Many Associations accept our courses for CPD including the IFPA (30 category A Points).