Saskatchewan
Massage Therapy Association of Saskatchewan
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS and approved CECs for MTAS
Optimizing Foot and Ankle Function: The Foot Core
12 CECs
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
12 CECs
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
Optimizing the Older Adult
16 CECs
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.
Optimizing Shoulder Function
7 CECs
Covers shoulder anatomy, function, and critical role of the scapula. Learn the most effective exercises for shoulder injuries (impingement, rotator cuff tear, bursitis, adhesive subluxations, dislocations) and how to prevent them! Become the expert on the most mobile joint in the human body!
Optimizing the Kinetic Chain
8 CECs
Learn how you can help your clients "optimize" their kinetic chain. This course is more than "proper posture". In this 8 hour self-paced online module, you will find out how an optimized kinetic chain is the key to improved function and reduced pain in your clients. Find out all about assess and prescribe ideal exercises for common malalignments. Discover how "breathing" places a big role in stabilizing the thoracic cannister and how to incorporate pelvic floor and transverse abdominals in stabilization. This course will also highlight functional movement patterns with slings and hip hinging and compound exercises. Learn how to help your clients all along the continuum (from sedentary or frail to athletes) be their best selves!
Part 1: Optimizing Hip and Knee Function: Fresh Ideas for Management of Osteoarthritis and Hip/Knee Joint Replacements"
8 CECS
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 CECs
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.
Finding Balance: Dual Task,Cognition and Vestibular Exercise Workshop
8 CECs
Learn the latest research on how best to incorporate thinking, vestibular, and dual tasks into your exercises to improve balance
and selective attention. What is vertigo and how can you recognize it? Help your clients reduce risk of falling and improve
function in the real world. All participants leave with a toolbox full of activities they can implement immediately into their
practice (1:1, small group, and larger classes).
