Sports Massage: Enhancing Training, Participation, and Recovery for Today's Athlete, 2nd Edition and Treating Connective Tissue Conditions with Muscle Release Techniques, 2nd Edition

About the Treating Connective Tissue Conditions Course
Designed to introduce massage therapists, athletic trainers and wellness professionals, this course shows learners how to effectively manipulate adhesions, scar tissue, and trigger points to improve patient outcomes.  The purpose of this course is to promote awareness of restrictions in muscle and fascia and tissue adhesions as well as resulting pain and dysfunction. We will explore safe, effective techniques shown to reduce tissue restriction and restore optimum function.   

Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

• Explain the epidemiology of muscular and myofascial trigger points 
• Name common syndromes associated with presence of trigger points  
• Define referred pain 
• Define adhesions and their effect on motor function   
• Identify the three layers of muscular fascia and implications for movement restriction  
• Explain the elements of sliding filament theory and their roles in trigger formation  
• Distinguish between trigger points and acupressure points 
• List the benefits of muscle release techniques. 
• Distinguish self-myofascial release from myofascial release administered by a therapist.  
• Differentiate active from passive tissue release. 

About the Sports Massage Course 

This course explores massage needs and methods unique to sports, with a focus on how the body responds to training and competition and the role that massage plays in both performance and recovery.  Therapists learn how to assist athletes before, during and after competition through the use of massage. 

These courses are approved by the Florida Board of Massage Therapy as a hands-on credit, relevant to and focused on massage therapy techniques, skills and protocols.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to:  

• Demonstrate techniques to maximize performance prior to, during and following an event.
• Distinguish between active and passive flexibility.
• Differentiate static from dynamic flexibility.
• Assign specific flexibility techniques to pre-, mid- and post-event.
• List several important benefits of warm up.
• Describe the specificity principal.

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