Nova Scotia Massage Therapists
COURSE DESCRIPTION and approved CECs for MTANS
Optimizing Foot and Ankle Function: The Foot Core
12 hours of credit
Optimizing our foot and ankle function is ESSENTIAL to alignment, stability and propulsion. Find out how to activate the "foot core" and all about foot intrinsics. Help your clients reduce lower extremity injuries, improve gait and overall athletic performance. Feet at the foundation of the kinetic chain. Who knew there was SO much to learn about our feet?
Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function: Fresh Ideas for Management of Osteoarthritis and Hip/Knee Joint Replacements"
8 hours of credit
Feeling uncertain about how to best train clients with hip or knee replacements or osteoarthritis? Learn the latest total joint surgical procedures and the most effective prehab/posthab exercises. Correct common muscle imbalances, prevent dislocations, and improve gait in your clients with osteoarthritis or hip/knee replacements. With 1 in 5 people living with osteoarthritis, find out how the right neuromuscular exercises can help this condition and even prevent surgery! Learn about the new core stability
"wrap around your glut" technique!
Part 2: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function: Taking it to the next level.
*must complete Part 1 to attend Part 2
7 hrs of credit
Learn how to help your clients' achieve their life goals and effectively return to sport and work post joint replacement. Many in the younger population are undergoing joint replacement surgery and they have ambitious goals to live life to the fullest. This workshop covers post op musculoskeletal complications, return to work and sport exercises, targeted stretching and gait analysis and tips relevant to this active population.
Optimizing the Older Adult
16 hrs of credit
Do you want to feel confident when working with the 55+ population? Learn about what influences aging and how increasing age affects a person physically, cognitively and mentally. This course covers a variety of chronic health conditions (respiratory, cardiac, neurological, diabetes, dementia, cancer). Discover key components for exercise programs for the healthy older adult and the older adult with multiple health concerns. We need to work "upstream" to help this client population to stay out of the hospital and THRIVE! Become an expert in the older adult population, expand your clientele reach and help them to lead their best lives.
