Sports Massage

Course Description:

This course instructs on injury prevention and how to recognize and treat non-acute sports-specific injuries. You will accomplish this by utilizing sports massage therapy and stretching techniques to assist with muscle recovery from the athlete’s sport.

Sports Massage techniques are used to promote an increased range of motion, flexibility, and strength training principles to achieve a specific goal.

In order to reach that goal, the massage therapist should have a good understanding of the basic anatomy and kinesiology of the body and it’s movements. Treatments for specific sports injuries will be addressed, describing the mechanism of injury and how the injury should be treated while in both the acute and chronic phases using massage.

Sports Massage supports the body's ability to perform, enhances recovery from activity, and shortens recovery time for a person who participates in an activity, whether amateur or professional.

Learning Outcomes: 

1. Describe the benefits of Sports Massage
2. Review the basic large muscle anatomy groups 
3. Recognize signs and symptoms of common muscle  and ligament injuries 
4. Perform Active and Assisted Stretching techniques.
5. Perform pre-event and post-event massage
6. Demonstrate recovery massage assessment procedure.
7. Develop specific treatment plans for common sports injuries.

Prequesites: None

Learning Objectives:

1. List the 1 goals of Sports Massage.
2. Define Performance
3. Identify the Quadricep Muscle Group
4. List 3 things you need for an event.
5. Explain the appropriate massage timing in pre-event massage and what should be assessed in the intake.
6. Use and apply the type of massage techniques needed to be applied in pre-event massage.
7. Define and perform the Active Stretch for the neck
8. Identify the 3 grades of muscle strain.
9. Learn and develop sport specific treatment plans based on information and techniques learned.
10. Differentiate between Chondromalacia Patella and Jumper’s Knee.
11. List 3 contraindications.
12. Explain what is RICE
13. Determine when should you perform Cross-fiber friction
14. Perform Recovery massage protocol.