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About our in-house medical massage
therapy training program Hands On Health offers a unique opportunity for our licensed massage staff; all our practitioners participate in advanced, integrative, and supervision based medical massage therapy training.
Licensed massage therapists graduate from
massage school with a minimum of 500 hours of
education and a basic background in applying a
variety of massage therapy techniques.
Traditionally, therapists have depended on
accumulating a series of 25-hour continuing
education courses to learn advanced techniques
such as orthopedic massage, neuromuscular
massage therapy, advanced sports massage, and
medical massage.
Although valuable in their own right, continuing
education courses lack five valuable learning
tools that Hands on Health is able to provide to
our therapeutic massage practitioners:
comprehensive supervision, one-on-one
instruction, case studies, real-life experience,
and
I-NMT
testing and certification.
During medical massage training, our therapists
work one-on-one and in groups with an advanced
therapist and, at times, a willing patient. They
learn to apply technique, create a plan of
action for each session, anticipate results,
create an overall treatment plan, study postural
distortions, and communicate with the medical
community.
Recent graduates from massage therapy school may
practice at Hands on Health as therapeutic
massage practitioners. This means that they may
apply any skill that they learned in massage
school with the intention of helping someone
gain pain relief or enjoy reconnecting with how
it feels to be relaxed. While they are
practicing as therapeutic massage practitioners,
they may practice medical massage techniques and
frequently provide follow-up or maintenance
sessions for the patient when the medical
massage therapist is unavailable or the patient
is no longer in need of intensive treatments. At
any time, these therapists have access to
advice, direct and indirect supervision, and new
technique suggestions from the more advanced
medical massage therapists.
Within the first 6 months of their arrival at
Hands on Health, a new practitioner must observe
a treatment session, receive a sample of the
session, and be observed using treatment
routines for the following conditions or
complaint area of the body:
TMJD (Temporal Mandibular Joint Dysfunction) -
Internal/external jaw muscle release
Suboccipital/Atlas/Axis muscle release
Anterior neck treatment including longus colli,
anterior scalenes, and hyoid muscles
Lumbro-sacral pelvic stabilization
Ilio-tibial band release from lateral femoral
muscles
Anterior shoulder strain treatments
Within 2, the supervisors and trainee will
decide if it is best or desirable to pursue more
medical massage training and the practitioner
will be eligible for the more comprehensive
training,
Integrative Neuromuscular Myofascial Technique,
a certification program developed by Laura
Landsiedel, one of the owners of Hands On
Health.
Read more about Laura Landsiedel by linking to
history and vision
and
owner bios.
Please contact Laura Landsiedel at
continuingeducation@handsonhealthnc.com
if you have any questions about our
practitioners, instructors, or about the program
in general.
At
Hands on Health, Raleigh and Cary massage
therapy, we strive to bring all that is possible
in the practice of massage therapy and wellness
into your treatment session!
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3701 NW Cary Parkway at Dunn Physical Therapy 919.388.0111
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