Your career as a massage therapist depends not only on you r education and skills training but also on your ability to use wisely the tools of the trade. As with any other skil led arti san, the massage therapist will use tools to express or imple ment massage.
Student Objectives
- Define Pathology, and give example of pathology agents
- Discuss the role of feedback mechanisms and how they help maintain homeostasis
- Contract and compare disorders with disease
- Contract and compare the terms signs and symptoms
- Contract and compare local and systemic diseases
- Identify characteristics of healthy boundaries
- State the types of diseases and disorders
- Discuss how infectious diseases can be transmitted
- Outline the suggestions for providing an environment that meets high sanitation standards
- List the guidelines for providing a safe massage
Course description
the students will receive an overview of the Integumentary System, the Skeletal System, and the Fascial System. In addition, the students will receive an Orientation to the Human Body, and the Muscular System. In massage application, the students will learn the rest of the basic massage strokes, and how to plan a session. Pre-requisite is course FM 101.
