Balance, Movement & Vulnerability: Massage Approaches & Ethical Considerations with Aging Clients

9am - 5pm

8 CE hours (Includes 3 Hours Ethics)

Course Description:

Learn how to address your client’s flexibility, strength and balance with Massage while being mindful of ethical considerations.

Achieving optimal movement requires a balance of strength, flexibility, and rigidity. Many factors affect our client’s pliability and mobility: aging, lack of or poor movement patterns and injury. This course will explore techniques that enhance the interplay between muscles, connective tissues, tendons, ligaments, and joints to improve overall movement quality.  By integrating client movements into treatments, this course will equip you to help clients become more pliable, fostering stronger and healthier daily activities. We will also address the unique ethical considerations with aging clients (3 hours).

Learning Outcomes: 

Students will be able to help clients address their movement limitations using the clients movements to optimize healthy mobility with a focus on ethical practices.

This course will teach you:

• 1. Define and differentiate between stretching, pliability, and mobility.

• 2. Learn to identify and analyze aging client movement patterns to identify restrictions caused by loss of balance, muscle tension and other soft tissue tightness.

• 3. Apply active and passive movement techniques during massage treatments to improve client mobility and flexibility.

  • Ankle region

  • Hip region

  • Thoracic region  

• 4. Identify and navigate ethical challenges with aging clients;

  • Client Autonomy vs. Beneficence (Over-Protectiveness)

  • Boundary Issues & Dual Relationships (Vulnerability & Isolation)

  • Misjudging Physical Fragility (Over-Treatment or Under-Treatment)

• 5. Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate a case study and prescribe appropriate massage techniques to improve a client’s functional balance and mobility.

Cancellations made more than 14 days prior to the course date will receive a full refund minus a $50 cancellation fee. 

Cancellations made within 14 days of the course date are subject to a 100% cancellation fee and are non-refundable. 

Participants who cancel may apply the amount paid toward a future course scheduled within 6 months of the original course date. Credit must be used within this time frame and is non-transferable.