Advanced Diploma of Myotherapy
Melbourne, Australia
Advanced Diploma
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This Advanced Diploma of Myotherapy prepares you to become a myotherapist specializing in assessment, treatment and prevention of musculoskeletal conditions. You'll use clinical skills to locate symptom sources and identify dysfunction, combining myotherapy with dry needling, cupping and TENS. The course covers anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, biomechanics and pathology, showing how myofascial, muscular and connective tissues relate to other body systems and linking theory to hands-on practice.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as clinical myotherapists, remedial therapists, sports rehabilitation clinicians or injury prevention specialists in private practice, allied-health clinics, sports teams, wellness centers, pain-management clinics or community health settings nationwide.
Myotherapy course will prepare students to become a Myotherapist specialising in the assessment, treatment and prevention of musculoskeletal conditions to enable them to use clinical skills to location the sources of the symptoms and identify dysfunctions. Dry needling, Cupping and Tens machine are used in conjunction with Myotherapy techniques to treat clients. Underpinning knowledge of Anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, biomechanics and pathology is required to understand the relationship between the myofascial and also how the muscles and connective tissues relate to other systems of the body.
