Content Outline

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Learning Objectives

1. Communicate how massage can enhance athletic performance, including the evidence for its efficacy.
2. Describe the application of specific techniques with active movement, including the cautions and contraindications.
3. Identify specialized massage techniques used in sports massage, including recovery, remedial and rehabilitative massage applications.
4. Contrast the techniques, guidelines and goals of pre-, inter- and postevent sports massage.
5. Describe the symptoms of, and first aid for, hyper- and hypothermia and muscle cramps.
6. Recognize common problem areas for athletes in different sports, including remedial applications for different body regions.
7. Identify common sports massage body mechanics problems and how to correct them.
8. Identify how to plan for a season of sports massage, including how athletes and coaches can participate in a sports massage program.
9. Recognize how sports massage is offered at athletic events, health clubs, in private practice and in sports medicine clinics.
10. Achieve at least 80% correct on the course test.

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Sample Text

"ATHLETIC ORGANIZATIONS

Many professional and amateur athletes hire their own massage specialists. This is a common practice in individual sports such as running, tennis, figure skating, boxing, and cycling, sports in which athletes have their own coaches, athletic trainers, personal physicians, and other support staff. Sometimes tournament managers (e.g., on a professional tennis circuit) provide a massage specialist for all players. An Olympic team may have its own massage specialist who travels with the team to training camp and to the Games themselves.

Some professional sport teams hire team massage therapists to provide massage to all team members. This assures that athletes will at least receive regular postevent massage, maintenance massage, or both. The logistics of providing massage in those circumstances is similar to in schools (i.e., creating a master schedule, allocating space, providing equipment, and making travel arrangements)." (Understanding Sports Massage by Patricia J. Benjamin & Scott P. Lamp, 2nd ed., 2005, p. 123-124)

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Sample Test Question

How do professional sport teams assure that the athletes receive regular maintenance massage?

1. they call local massage practitioners in the cities of the upcoming events and arrange massage sessions
2. they make it a mandatory rule that athletes must supply proof of receiving weekly maintenance massage
3. they hire team massage therapists to provide massage to the team members
4. none of the above

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