HLTMSG007 - Adapt remedial massage practice for athletes

Unit code: HLTMSG007 | Study level: TAFE

Credit points

N/A

Location

City King St

Footscray Park

Werribee

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to determine the remedial massage needs of athletes and to adjust assessment and treatment to develop preventative and injury related treatment strategies for athletes and other sport active people. This unit applies to remedial massage therapists.

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate these required skills:

performed the activities outlined in performance criteria during a period of at least 200 hr of massage client consultation work;
managed at least 60 remedial massage assessment & treatment sessions - clients must include males & females from different stages of life with varied presentations, and;
assessed & treated at least 3 different sporting injuries to recovery stage.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate knowledge of:

roles and responsibilities of different people associated with the health management of the athlete;
legal and ethical considerations (national and state/territory) for client assessment and treatment;
relevant principles of human movement and sport biomechanics;
pre-event and post-event massage techniques and their application;
features of acute, chronic and overuse musculoskeletal injuries in sport, including referral potential, rate of recovery and how massage can assist the following: bone injuries; articular cartilage injuries; joint injuries; ligament injuries; muscle injuries; tendon injuries; bursa injuries, and; skin injuries;
types of cryotherapy or thermotherapy used for recovery from injury and techniques used to apply them;
indications, contraindications and considerations for use of cryotherapy;
indications, contraindications and considerations for use of thermotherapy, and;
uses and indications for taping and splinting that are within scope of massage practice.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.