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Sports Injuries in Teens

Sports Injuries in Teens

By The Medical Massage Lady Training School

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Highlights

  • On-Demand course

  • Intermediate level

Description

This course is intended for anyone who has already undertaken basic body massage/sports massage training and wishes to work with teenagers, or anyone working with teens in a sports environment, who would like to further their knowledge of common sports injuries that affect teens, which may lead them to book a treatment. Alternatively this course could be used to introduce you to teen sports injuries prior to undertaking a sports massage course or working with teens in a sports environment

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • the benefits of teenagers playing sports

  • how puberty can influence sports injuries

  • how to reduce the risk of injuries in teens and deal with them when they happen

  • to extend your knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of teens

  • to develop your knowledge of the common sports injuries that teens may present with,

  • to know the causes and risk factors and to recognise the symptoms

  • to identify preventive and rehabilitative self help measures that you can suggest to clients

  • to offer massage treatments with a more medical/sports focus

IGCT accredited. 10 CPD points.

Course Content

INTRODUCTION
  1. COURSE CONTENT
  2. LEGISLATION
  3. PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
  1. MUSCULOSKELETAL:THE LEG
  2. MUSCULOSKELETAL:THE ARM AND SHOULDER
  3. THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
  4. THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
  5. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
  6. ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY QUIZ
TEEN SPORTS:THE BASICS
  1. BENEFITS OF SPORTS IN TEENS
  2. TYPES OF TRAINING
  3. TIPS FOR PREVENTING SPORTS INJURIES
  4. TYPES OF SPORTS INJURIES
  5. EFFECTS OF PUBERTY ON SPORTS INJURIES
  6. WHEN TO SEE A DOCTOR
  7. RETURN TO PLAY
COMMON SPORTS INJURIES IN TEENS
  1. CAUSES OF KNEE PAIN
  2. PATELLOFEMORAL SYNDROME
  3. OSGOOD SCHLATTERS DISEASE
  4. SEVERS DISEASE
  5. CHRONIC EXERTIONAL COMPARTMENTS SYNDROME
  6. SHIN SPLINTS
  7. LITTLE LEAGUERS ELBOW
FINAL ASSESSMENT
  1. FINAL ASSESSMENT

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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