Treating the Athlete: Understanding Sport Massage

Treating the Athlete: Understanding Sport Massage offers a detailed introduction to sport and athletic massage therapy training. It covers a wide range of crucial aspects, including theory, practical application, and considerations for pre-event, inter-event, and post-event treatments.

Discover the rich history of sport massage and its significant benefits for athletes. Following, delve into essential factors for an on-site sport massage, including general considerations, specific event details, and hygiene practices. Learn key questions to include in an athlete's assessment and the protocol for effective communication with athletes. Finally, explore the importance of attending to the therapist's own well-being during strenuous events.

Additionally, the course addresses event-specific considerations that influence the sport massage treatment plan. This includes factors like the timing of the event(s) and scheduling, the athlete's unique characteristics, the sport's physical demands, and when and how to integrate complementary modalities.

Treating the Athlete: Understanding Sport Massage will give you a solid foundation in sport massage treatment considerations. This foundational understanding is essential for a deeper exploration of pre-event, inter-event, and post-event massage therapy.

This sport massage therapy training is a collaboration between Dexterity PD and the Canadian Sport Massage Therapists Association (CSMTA).

The CSMTA provides the world's most rigorous training and certification for working with athletes. It is an Allied Health member of the World Federation of Athletic Training & Therapy (WFATT). This online training is comparable to the Theory & Professional Considerations content of the CSMTA Allied Practitioners 1-day course "Sport Event Massage".