Treatment Planning for Clinical Massage
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About the Course:
To begin massage treatment planning gather the client information including any medications that could affect the treatment plan, and understand that it is important to document all the information.
Learning Outcomes:
To begin massage treatment planning gather the client information including any medications that could affect the treatment plan, and understand that it is important to document all the information.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify client goals in order to begin treatment planning.
- Demonstrate the ability to understand the importance of documentation and how to use it.
- Develop the ability to use an intake form and conduct an interview.
- Describe the two most common documenting formats.
- Explain how to assess a client's pain.
- Describe the importance of a client's medications and their influence on treatment planning.
- Understand a massage therapist's scope-of-practice.
- Develop the ability to use several assessments and the process of treatment planning based on their outcomes.
- Describe the most common massage techniques employed in a clinical massage.
- Describe how to proceed at the conclusion of the massage.