Natural Health Academy - NHA Australia

NHA Australia’s ‘Natural Health Academy’ has been delivering Complementary Health Science qualifications throughout Australia for over 3 decades (since 1984) and within this time it has graduated thousands of students. NHAA’s commitment to the future and success of all its students (and the health industry) provides only the highest standard of health education. NHAA (one Australia’s premier providers of Natural Health education) is continually offering up-to-date, in-depth Certificate and Diploma courses that not only meet but exceeds industry demands and requirements.

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Trigger Point Therapy 2

The Level 2 training course is presented as a hands-on workshop, giving the student extensive experience working with the client and commonly presented injury areas. This course will provide the student with an excellent opportunity to expand their existing skill base and knowledge of injury and remedial massage while using trigger point therapy. We will be learning about specific injury areas, using techniques to assist you and your client with releasing soft tissue injury. The focus of this training will be on Advanced Trigger-Point Therapy, including Deep Tissue techniques, therapeutic stretches, referred pain patterns and Sports Massage techniques. A comprehensive course manual is also provided.…

Trigger Point Therapy 1

A trigger point is a hypersensitive area in a muscle that, when compressed, is locally tender and often related to referred pain. Systematically working on these points can effectively reduce pain and correct muscle spasm. This remedial course teaches you about trigger points, locations and pain patterns. Trigger Point therapy is extensively used to treat sport injuries and chronic pain and dysfunction. The course will focus on common musculoskeletal disorders including neck and back problems. • Trigger Point Philosophy • Treating Common Complaints • Trigger Point Anatomy • PNF Stretching • Trigger Point Pathology…

The NurtureLife™ Practitioner of Pregnancy Massage

The Practitioner of Pregnancy Massage course will advance your massage knowledge and skills, including developing further your understanding of the many complex presentations of pregnancy. We will review in greater detail high-risk conditions unique to pregnancy and how to treat each of these conditions through each trimester. We will consolidate your understanding of the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, particularly in relation to complex musculoskeletal changes unique to pregnancy. How to apply orthopaedic assessment and the adaption of these skills through each trimester to determine appropriate treatment plan. You will learn how to adapt your treatment plans to suit the individual needs of your clients, through massage, gentle breathe, stretching and visualisations unique to pregnancy. You will explore massage techniques for use in labour, active partner training, and postnatal massage so you can create a unique NurtureLife® experience for your clients. – See more at: http://pregnancymassageaustralia.com.au/courses/#sthash.WLEwF4G3.dpuf…

Thai Massage

This is an introduction course and is designed to give you an insight to the work of Thai Massage Therapy. It will take the participant through the history, fundementals and basic techniques that make up a Thia Massage routine. It is designed for anyone that is interested is seeing if Thai Massage is for you. …

Supervised Student Clinic 1

Supervised Clinic 2

Structural Anatomy 1

Sports Massage 2

Sports Massage 2 takes the participant into a deeper understanding of Sports Massage, this will in turn give them greater knowledge skills to work with sporting injuries and ailments more proficiently. This course is for anyone that is looking at working within the sporting arena and wants to specialise in areas such as: tennis elbow, corked thigh, twisted ankles or shin splints. Sports massage provides relief from discomfort and aids rehabilitation and recovery and is used throughout the world from general every day injuries to elite levels of sport injuries.…

Sports Injuries 1 & 2

This progrqm had been specifically designed for students who wish to deal with musculoskeletal disorders/sports injuries as seen in a clinical practice. Students must have experience in applying remedial techniques such as Myofascial Release and Trigger Point Therapy to soft tissue injuries (these techniques are used extensively in the rehabilitation of soft tissue dysfunctions). Some examples of conditions covered are: Neck: acute wry neck and whiplash Shoulder: frozen shoulder, rotator cuff dysfunction Wrist/hand: tenosynovitis, carpal tunnel syndrome Lower back/hip: sciatica and back pain Lower Back Pain: acute/chronic Elbow: golfer’s or tennis elbow Knee: ligament/tendon disorder Ankle/foot: shin splints, sprains, groin pain, plantar fascitis…

Sport Massage – Deep Tissue Massage

Pre-requisites – Massage 2 plus Supervised Clinic / Clinical Experience or equivalent This 4 day course is ideal for those who aspire to work in a sporting environment. Sport Massage assists athletes to maintain consistent, injury-free training and helps to improve recovery time. You will learn how to perform a full body sport massage, specific deep tissue massage techniques, and the applications of Sport Massage. Upon completion of this course you will be eligible to obtain professional indemnity insurance to practice massage.…