Sports Massage course in Brighton ITEC Diploma

ITEC Diploma in Sports Massage

This course will provide you with the skills for treating not just sports injuries but also a whole range of soft tissue problems; muscle imbalances and to aid the recovery of your clients.

Topics covered within the course include:

Understanding the muscles’ origin, insertions and actions more clearly to give you enhanced confidence about treating them. Also, to enable you to massage and stretch appropriately.
Understanding how joints move and the range of movements possible.
The effects of stress on muscles and joints during exercise.
Understanding how particular sporting activities can affect muscle groups.
Understanding the principles of injury prevention.
Learning how to advise a stretching routine to client.
Working and recording case studies 5 clients, 3 treatments each.
Particular emphasis will be placed on using a range of Muscle Energy Techniques (MET); Neuro-muscular Techniques (NMT); Soft Tissue Release (STR); Connective Tissue Massage (CTM) and Proprioceptive Neuro-muscular Facilitation (PNF).

The tutor, Michael Gibbons, has a particular interest and experience in working with these forms of stretching and uses them regularly in his private practice. If you want to enhance results with your clients, these are certainly techniques that you should be using.

About The College of Classical Massage

We run a variety of massage training courses which cater for varying requirements. Courses are held in Brighton at weekends and on weekdays.
We offer high quality tuition with specialist tutors, in a supportive group setting.

About Michael Gibbons MAO, MJMA, BCMA, IHBC, IIHHT, IIST.

I qualified as a massage therapist in 1991 and work using many styles: Sports, Relaxation, Remedial, and Thai Yoga Massage. I am trained in Biodynamic Cranio Sacral therapy and Classical Manipulation inspired by the work of John McTimoney.

I am trained as an Adult Education Teacher and teach Sports Massage, Advanced Massage and on the Foundation Degree in Complementary Healthcare, for Sussex Downs College and validated by the University of Brighton. Iam also Director and Principal of the College of Classical Massage Ltd established 1999.

In 1996 I undertook a 4 year course in Body Manipulation at a college in Oxford, graduating with a Diploma. Because I choose not to register with the emerging legally regulated professional body, the General Chiropractic Council (GCC), I am unable to disclose the real course title or the college I trained at.

From all my different trainings I consider myself a well rounded body therapist and from it I now practice what I call Structural Rebalancing, which is a term I feel encompasses all that I do.

I love the work that I do and it gives me great pleasure to be able to impart my knowledge to others and play an important part in the development of their skills. People have often asked me don’t I get bored with doing massage. To me massage is all about expression and as long as I continue to express it as an artform it will continue to be one of the biggest passions in my life along with all the other forms of work that I do.

Please contact us with any questions