MTX 1090 - Swedish Massage

Clock Hours: 60

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
Swedish massage will teach each student the basic strokes that can be used to complete a full body Swedish massage. The stroke categories that will be taught are: effleurage, petrissage, friction, vibration, and tapotement. Along with these basic foundational strokes the students will also learn Swedish gymnastics (stretching) that can be done during a full body massage, or for therapeutic reasons as well. Appropriate draping of the body will be covered at the beginning of this course so that the students keep all clients modestly covered at all times with the exception of the area that they are working on.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate and describe each of the primary massage methods based on mechanical force application with appropriate variations in depth of pressure, drag, direction, speed and duration while keeping the client’s safety in mind at all times. (CSLO 20; PSLO 2, 5, 7)

Demonstrate the ability to appropriately and safely drape the clients body
Touch (near touch, passive resting)
Glide/stroking (digital, palmar, and knuckle)
Kneading (superficial kneading/fulling) (deep kneading: digital, palmar, skin rolling, wringing, chucking, fist and petrissage)
Friction (static, stripping, cross‐fiber)
Joint movements (passive, assistive, resistive, and joint stretching)
Percussion (tapping, hacking, splatting, beating, cupping, slapping, and clapping)
Vibration (shaking, digital, deep, lateral, knuckle, and superficial)
Stretching - Swedish gymnastics (passive and active stretching of muscle and connective tissue to achieve normal resting length.)