Essential Massage Skills: Integrative Healthcare, Soft Tissue and Sports Therapy

Course description

This 18-week course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to progress onto further and higher academic qualifications in:

• Integrative Healthcare
• Complementary Therapies
• Soft Tissue Therapy
• Sport Therapy

This course is suitable if you have an interest in hands on therapies and/or integrative healthcare or if you are looking to enter the healthcare sector whether you:

• are a school leaver
• are returning to education
• are looking for a career change
• have an interest in hands on therapies
• have an interest in Integrative Healthcare

Special features:

• You will study a variety of subjects preparing you for further study
• You will gain practical skills in body massage treatments
• You will gain knowledge in health, nutrition and anatomy of the body
• An ideal starting point for returners to education.
• There is an opportunity for volunteering during the time of study.

You will have the opportunity for field trips and external engagement during the course.

Course content includes:

A variety of units will be studied, providing you with underpinning knowledge of many aspects of

• complementary therapies
• soft tissue therapy
• sports therapy
• nutrition and wellbeing
• academic and study skills
• clinical skills, resilience, and self-awareness

The core units of this course link with the BSc (Hons) Integrative Healthcare degree, the HNC Soft Tissue Therapy, and the HND Sports Therapy programmes, enabling a smooth transition if you wish to progress into a higher education course.