OPTM18 Sports Massage

Level: 6

Credits: 5

Directed Learning hours: 20

Self Directed Learning hours: 30

Total Learning Hours: 50

Aims
This course aims to provide students with advanced sports massage skills and knowledge of the sporting context, exercise physiology and common sporting injuries.

Pre-requisites

 * OPTM9 Intermediate Massage
 * OPTM12 Anatomy 2

Co-requisites

 * OPTM22 Pathology

Content

 * Sports training and conditioning
 * Exercise physiology
 * Advanced sports massage techniques
 * Sports injuries

Attendance Requirements
Students are expected to attend 90% of practical classes. If in the opinion of the programme manager students have a valid reason for non-attendance, their total attendance may be permitted to drop to a minimum of 80%. Non-participation in these classes is treated as non-attendance. Students are required to attend all clinical- and work- placement activities except when the programme manager judges that there are extenuating circumstances. Students will be expected to engage with online discussions and activities and in some instances, participation may be required.

Completion requirements
Students must achieve competency in all assessment tasks for completion of this course. Students attendance and participation must also comply with the attendance requirements of the course.