Adaptive massage

This week in Intermediate massage we'll be looking at ways that you can adapt your massage to suit clients with different requirements. More specifically we'll be considering elderly clients as well as clients with disabilities and chronic illness.

Weekly tasks

• Elluminate - Thursday, 29 October - 10-12
  Adaptive massage
  
  
• If you haven't already started, now would be a good time to start working on revising your notes for intermediate massage in preparation for the exam.
  

Introduction to trigger points

This week in Intermediate massage, I'll introduce you to the theory behind trigger points, which should help to prepare you for your practical block with Ash.

Weekly tasks

1. Elluminate - Thursday 10-12
   Introduction to Trigger points
   

Pain & subjective assessment

This week in Intermediate massage, we'll be having a look at pain - types of pain, what causes it, why massage can be useful in relieving it, and we'll also have a look at client interviewing for pain-related conditions.

Weekly tasks

1. Go to the Intermediate massage page, download the assessments & have a look at them.
   
   
2. Read through the principles of deep tissue massage
   
   
3. Read through the effects of deep tissue massage & complete the worksheet.
   
   
4. Elluminate session - Monday 1-3pm
   Understanding pain
   
   
5. Elluminate session - Thursday 10-12
   Assessment for therapeutic massage
   

A few more case studies

Hi all,

No more new content this week, just a few case studies to help you with your studies.

• Stress 7
• Disability 1
  

Case studies

Case studies for the week

• Pregancy 1
• Soft-tissue injury (part 1 | full version)
  It's recommended that you work with part 1 before you continue on to the full version
• Stress 2
  

Case study

Every week on this blog until the end of the semester, I will release details of one or more case studies. These case studies will be made available to you so that you can study by applying what you've been taught to specific cases.

These cases are not intended to provide a comprehensive set of clients. You will still need to study material which falls outside of these cases.

Cases for this week

• Elderly 1
• Stress 4

Assessment & medications

I know I said that last week would be the last post for Intermediate massage for a while, but there are two things that I need to work through with you.

Firstly, the Intermediate massage assessment has been posted.
Have a look through the assessment & make sure you understand what you'll be assessed on. The most significant thing to realise which I talked about briefly during an elluminate session week before last was that you will need to be medication savvy. In your assessment if a client presents with a set of medications you must be able to determine the actions of these medications and the implications of these to massage practice.

Given that there are no good resources for this which relate medications to massage practice, I've suggested that it's a good idea for us to develop a quick reference sheet.

Some people have said that they would be happy to learn how to edit wikipages so that we could build a page on Wikipedia. Others have said that they would prefer to build the content on a Google doc. The wiki page option seems clearly better in the long term because the material that you create can be developed on on an ongoing basis which is clearly what is needed. If this is in the too hard basket for you, I've created a google document which you can use in the meantime. I'll then transfer the content to the wikipage.

There are free wiki-editing workshops which are run from time to time at Otago Polytechnic. I'll keep you posted as to when they are.

Here is a link to Massage, medications and interactions. On this page you will find a link to the process you should go through to find out about medications, and a link to the wiki page with content. There are also videos describing how to use and contribute to the project.

Here's a link to the Google document.