SHBBSPA007 - Provide stone therapy massages
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Prerequisites
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to provide full body massages with hot and cold stones.
It requires the ability to establish priorities with clients, and to select pre-heated stones, design massage and provide a stone massage treatment. Stone massage therapy can be an individual treatment or form part of a series of treatments.
This unit applies to beauty and spa therapists who work in day, destination and resort spas, and beauty salons. In this environment they work in a team but are responsible for individual client recommendations and treatment.The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & 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 the following required skills:
• provide five safe and appropriate stone therapy massages of at least 60 minutes each for clients of differing height, weight and age
-design, record and update treatment plans and records for each client using correct anatomical terminology and specifying details of:
-client feedback
-contraindications and conditions
-outcomes of previous and current treatment
-massage details and stones used
-post treatment lifestyle and product advice
-products used
-recommended future treatments
-relevant medical history and medication
-treatment duration, areas treated and areas not treated
-treatment objectives
• provide five safe and appropriate stone therapy massages of at least 60 minutes each for clients of differing height, weight and age
-design, record and update treatment plans and records for each client using correct anatomical terminology and specifying details of:
-client feedback
-contraindications and conditions
-outcomes of previous and current treatment
-massage details and stones used
-post treatment lifestyle and product advice
-products used
-recommended future treatments
-relevant medical history and medication
-treatment duration, areas treated and areas not treated
-treatment objectives
• maintain temperature of stones to suit each client’s temperature tolerance
• sequence stone therapy routine to maximise benefits for each client
• adapt massage routine to stone therapy and each client needs
• during the above treatments comply with health and hygiene regulations and requirements.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• state or territory and local health and hygiene regulations and requirements relevant to providing stone therapy massages
• organisational policies and procedures relevant to providing stone therapy massages:
-client record management
-equipment use and maintenance
-incident reporting
-linen use and laundry procedures
-personal hygiene and presentation
-presentation of treatment area
-waste disposal
-water use minimisation
-work health and safety
• legal and insurance liabilities and responsibilities regarding stone therapy massages
• scope of practice:
-when to refer clients to other practitioners
-importance of not stating a diagnosis of a contraindication
-limitations of stone massage
-role of complementary therapist and medical practitioner
• factors likely to affect suitability of treatments for client needs:
-budgetary and time constraints
-outcomes of previous treatments
-physical attributes
• effects and benefits of:
-each type of massage movement and technique
-each type of stone
-variations in stone temperature
-stone placement and sequencing
• effects of stone therapy on body systems:
-circulatory
-integumentary
-lymphatic
-muscular
-nervous
-skeletal and articular
• common disorders of body systems and their relationship to stone therapy massage
• variations in sensory perception and its relationship to stone therapy massage
• history of stone therapy massage
• properties of different materials for stones
• contraindications that prevent or restrict treatment or require clearance from a medical professional to proceed and relationship to stone therapy massage:
-abdominal hernia
-asthma
-bacterial, fungal, parasitic and viral infections
-cancer
-heart conditions
-loss of skin sensation
-low blood pressure
-intoxication or drug use
-people prone to blood clots
-post chemotherapy or radiation
-post herpetic neuralgia
-post surgery
-pregnancy
-recent fractures
-skin lesions
-skin trauma
-sunburn
• adverse effects to stone therapy massage and appropriate remedial action:
-dizziness
-headache
-nausea
-skin irritation
• lifestyle factors and benefits of lifestyle changes
• sustainable operating procedures for the conservation of product, water and power
• effects and benefits of aftercare advice, products and future treatments to maintain client stone therapy massage objectives.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):