Treatment Planning For Clinical Massage

Course overview

Identify client goals in order to begin treatment planning. Demonstrate the ability to understand the importance of documentation and how to use it. Develop the ability to use an intake form and conduct an interview. Describe the two most common documenting formats. Explain how to assess a client’s pain. Describe the importance of a client’s medications and their influence on treatment planning. Understand a massage therapist’s scope-of-practice. Develop the ability to use several assessments and the process of treatment planning based on their outcomes. Describe the most common massage techniques employed in a clinical massage. Describe how to proceed at the conclusion of the massage.