Course curriculum

For established Level 4 therapists this course will increase your range of knowledge and skills, in turn enhancing your expertise to support your clients. you will learn skills and techniques that will enable you to plan, prepare, and apply a range of assessments and interventions beyond those included at Levels 3 and 4 in sports massage therapy, to further help clients recover from sports injuries and other conditions.

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Learner assessment record Level 5

    • Level 5 specification

    • Assignment terminology

    • Weekly tasks
  • 2

    Reading list

    • Reading list and useful websites.

    • Wrist, hand and elbow information
  • 3

    Live lessons

    • Lesson Gait

    • Lesson - Consultation process

    • Lesson Dermatomes/myotomes

    • Lesson - Ankle

    • Lesson - Knee

    • Lesson - Hip

    • Lesson- Shoulder

    • Pre-existing conditions / evidence based research
  • 4

    Live lessons group 2

    • Gait analysis

    • Consultation

    • Derma / Myotomes

    • Review of week 1-3

    • Ankle

    • Knee

    • Hip

    • Shoulder

    • Elbow, wrist, hand

    • Aftercare

    • Review week
  • 5

    Live Lessons Group 3

    • Gait

    • Gait Review

    • Assessment / consultation process

    • Assessment/consultation review

    • Dermo/Myo

    • Dermo/Myo review

    • Ankle

    • Knee

    • Hip

    • Elbow, wrist and hand

    • Spine

    • Evidence based practice
  • 6

    Gait analysis

    • Gait analysis. Video to analyse

    • Gait analysis sheet

    • LO 5 Gait & Posture

    • LO 1 Assessment of specific posture & gait.

    • Sample analysis sheets

    • Sample gait sheets

    • Assignment 1 Gait analysis

    • Video analysis task

    • LO5 Gait

  • 7

    Consultation process

    • Conduct complex assessment for sports massage

    • Red/yellow flags

    • Record of consultation

    • Practical assessment

    • Complex assessment methods
  • 8

    Dermatomes and Myotomes

    • Video links

    • Devise treatment plans

    • Neurological presentations

    • Neurological Presentation assignment
  • 9

    Foot and ankle

    • Pathophysiology and special tests

    • Assignment 4

    • AIS complex techniques

    • Ankle anterior drawer test

    • Ankle Mortins test

    • Ankle tiller tilt test

    • Syndamosis Ligament test

    • Calf Thompson squeeze test

    • Ankle Active isolates stretch

    • Calf Myofacial release
  • 10

    Knee

    • Myofascial release

    • Pathophysiology and special tests

    • Assignment 5

    • Knee patela femoral grind test

    • Knee hyperextention test

    • Knee valgus and varus test

    • Knee anterior drawer test

    • Knee McMurry test

    • Apleys grind:distraction test
  • 11

    PNF

    • PNF stretching glutes

    • PNF shoulder

    • PNF stretching Hamstrings

    • PNF Neck
  • 12

    Hip

    • Positional Release

    • Pathophysiology and special tests

    • Hip

    • Hip Passive circumduction test

    • Fabers test

    • Fulcrum test

    • Slump test for sciatic nerve

    • Cough test

    • Anterior and posterior distraction test

    • Straight leg raise

    • Positional release hip flexor
  • 13

    Shoulder

    • Pathophysiology Shoulder

    • PNF

    • Shoulder

    • Scarf test

    • Sulcus test

    • O Brians Labral test

    • Spring test

    • Shoulder apprehension test
  • 14

    PNF advanced stretching

    • PNF stretching glutes

    • PNF shoulder

    • PNF stretching Hamstrings

    • PNF Neck
  • 15

    Wrist and Hand

    • Patholophysiology wrist and hand

    • Aftercare

    • Wrist and hand assignment

    • Posterior Lateral rotatory drawer test

    • Passive extension test
  • 16

    Pre-existing conditions / Evidence based research

    • Pre-existing conditions

    • Evidence based research

    • Assignment - Pre-existing conditions / evidence based research