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Pregnancy Massage

Pregnancy Massage

By The Medical Massage Lady Training School

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Highlights

  • Delivered Online or In-Person

  • Beginner level

Description

This course is intended for anyone who has already undertaken a basic body massage course and would like to extend their treatment range to include pregnancy massage.


LEARNING OUTCOMES

• to develop your understanding of the role, skills and qualities of a successful massage therapist in relation to the pregnant/postnatal client

• to extend your knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the human body during pregnancy

• to understand the physical and mental health benefits of massage therapy for the pregnant/postnatal client

• to familiarise yourself with pregnancy massage and the techniques used


The theory element of this course can be done online and once this is completed, a practical session must be arranged in Tunbridge Wells. This can be done by emailing sam@medicalmassagelady.com


Accredited by the IGCT. 14 CPD points.

Course Content

INTRODUCTION
  1. COURSE CONTENT
  2. LEGISLATION
  3. PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
  1. THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM:THE PELVIS
  2. THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM:THE ABDOMEN
  3. THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM:THE LOWER BACK
  4. THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM:THE HIP AND GLUTES
  5. THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM:THE THIGH
  6. THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
  7. THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
  8. A & P QUIZ
CHANGES DURING PREGNANCY
  1. STAGES OF PREGNANCY
  2. PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES WITHIN THE BODY SYSTEMS
  3. HORMONE LEVELS
  4. PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE MOTHER
  5. FOETAL DEVELOPMENT
  6. SYMPHYSIS PUBIS DYSFUNCTION
PREGNANCY MASSAGE
  1. PREGNANCY MASSAGE
  2. IS PREGNANCY MASSAGE SAFE?
  3. POSITIONING
  4. BENEFITS OF PREGNANCY MASSAGE
  5. CONTRAINDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS & CONTRA-ACTIONS
  6. MASSAGE TECHNIQUES
  7. BASIC PREGNANCY ROUTINE
ASSESSMENT
  1. PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES
  2. PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT
  3. FINAL ASSESSMENT

Location

59 Grosvenor Road, TN12AY, United Kingdom, TUNBRIDGE WELLS

About The Provider

The Medical Massage Lady Training School
I qualified in Swedish massage and Preheat treatments back in 1997, and while I continued to use my massage qualification, my main career was as a surgical nurse and then a midwife on a high risk unit. After another 9 years of working with mainly physically disabled children and...
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