Take the 8 hour classroom refresher course designed for Drivers age 50 and over.  Participants could earn a discount with their auto insurance.  Consult your insurance agent for details.

Checks will be made payable to AARP on the first day of class. 

$12.00 for AARP Members
$14.00 for Non-Members

Students are provided with the tools and problem solving methods for systematically assessing musculoskeletal conditions of their clients allowing them to take a medically oriented approach to soft-tissue pain and dysfunction. Palpation skills, discussion of structural compensations for accidents, illness, repetitive work injury, athletic activities, postural analysis, gait analysis, muscle testing, and measurements of range of motion are covered here in more depth. These skills will assist a therapist in determining how massage should be used, methods of condition management, and methods of evaluation to obtain measurable results. Included in this course are advanced skills such as Cyriax friction, factilitated, passive, active, and resisted stretching, trigger point therapy, strain/counter strain, and joint mobilizations. This section is the combination of the upper and lower body. The course can be taken as a whole, or taken as two separate sections (lower and upper body).

Instructors guide students in modifying and utilizing the therapeautic massage routines taught in previous classes to effectively assist in the treatment of specific medical conditions for clients. Students increase their knowledge of pathologies limiting mobility and sensation, and how massage can benefit these disorders. Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the ability to converse with, receive and make referrals to other health professionals. This course will allow a comprehensive look at endangerment sites and tissue injury and repair.