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December and January workshops

 

Taping and Strapping

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Dry needling for pain management

 

Perfect short courses over the winter period

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Dry Needling for Pain Management

This course is endorsed by the Sports Fitness Academy  and will allow students to gain Professional Indemnity with Balens to practice dry needling therapy.

Students must be working towards or qualified in Level 4 Sports Massage Therapy or equivalent

This is a hands on practical course in dry needling for pain management.  

Dry needling is a fantastic treatment which can be used to effectively aid and improve a wide range of issues for your client.  

Through this qualification you will develop the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to apply dry needling methods competently to soft tissue injury and pre-existing conditions and will include a range of appropriate dry needling techniques suitable for each area of the body.  

You will also develop your subjective and objective assessment skills to include clinical reasoning.

Taping and Strapping

This Taping and Strapping Workshop is a one day course that will provide you with a full understanding of modern sports taping and strapping techniques.

Upon completion, participants will have the ability to identify the suitability of taping for specific soft tissue injuries.  Participants will also acquire the knowledge about the different taping and strapping materials available and gain the practical ability to apply safe, effective taping and strapping to joints and muscles.

This workshop is open to qualified therapists who hold a recognised Sports Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy or Physiotherapy qualification.

Course Pre-Requisites:
None, however a good understanding and knowledge of anatomical structures is beneficial.

 

 

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Taping and strapping

February 16th (Sligo)

 

Dryneedling:

June 15th & July19th & 20th (Athlone)

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Dry needling for Pain Management Only

Two payments of €370

Top features

 

  • Understand the history and background of dry needling
  • Understand what dry needling is and the needles involved in this treatment
  • Understand the effects of dry needling and pathophysiology of trigger pointing
  • Understand the anatomy and physiology of the nerve.
  • Know the precautions to dry needling and managing adverse effects
  • Understand common conditions.
  • Be able to provide assessment and dry needling treatment of the upper body (shoulder, arm, hand, head and neck muscles)
  • Be able to provide assessment and dry needling treatment of the lower body (trunk, abdominal and low back muscles, hip, leg and foot muscles)
  •  Total price: €760
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Taping and Straping workshop

1 payment of €179

Top features

Learn how to better serve your clients

  • Learn a wide range of strapping methods for a variety of injuries
  • Develop your taping skills to successfully support your clients
  • Additional anatomical knowledge will be delivered relating to the taping
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  • Total price €179
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Testimonial with Sander: Sports Massage Student

 

Sander

This was a fantastic course and Arleen is very knowledgable about dry needling

Sinead

I really enjoyed the course and am looking forward to adding it to my practice

Seamie

Brilliant course and I learned so much.  This is really going to help my business expand now that I can offer this