Sports Massage for Treating Lower Extremity Injuries

Course overview

Sports massage techniques are widely used to address musculoskeletal complaints of the lower extremity and are a valuable adjunct to the repertoire of any massage therapist interested in treating injuries. This 8-hour seminar focuses on these chronic injuries that respond well to clinically-oriented sports massage Chronic ankle sprain Achilles tendinopathy Fibularis tendinopathy Hamstrings strain and tendinopathy Patellar tendinopathy The hands-on portion of this seminar includes a range of applications, including compressive effleurage and petrissage, broad cross-fiber work, longitudinal stripping, pin and stretch techniques, isolytic contractions, deep transverse friction, and facilitated stretching. The information and treatment protocols presented in this live seminar are adapted from Sports Massage for Injury Care released in 2019 by Human Kinetics Publishers.