📅 IASTM Fascial Manipulation Course Thursday 16th July 2025, Glasgow
🏴Sports Therapy Scotland🏴
First Floor
116 Elderslie St
Glasgow
G3 7AW
👉🏻Glasgow.Early Bird £450 saving £100 from £550 list price - includes our superb medical grade MKT tools, (2 x Early bird spaces available) ⏱
✅ Our courses are delivered by David Jenkins BSc(hons), Sports Therapist - to Undisputed World Boxing Champion- Josh Taylor 🌎🥊 and Jordan Edgar BSc Sports Therapy BSc Sports Rehabilitation.
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We run our Certificated Glasgow courses with 6 candidate spaces maximum - this ensures maximal social distancing and also ensures an optimal learning experience of small candidate courses.
✅ A policy that has been brilliantly received and we will keep.
✅ Why learn and use Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation (IASTM)?
Objectives of IASTM Course
✅ Sports Therapy Scotland education and MKT tools are a form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilisation (IASTM) therapy. The four stainless steel instruments were designed for the unique programming taught in our education.
✅ Demonstrate a working knowledge of the MKT instruments, MKT treatments and potential effects and benefits
✅ Identify and discuss the indications, contraindications (relative and absolute) of IASTM.
✅ Review and develop a better understanding of soft tissue injury, healing and potential reactivity to instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilisation (therapeutic and adverse)
✅ Develop skill and competence in the MKT application of IASTM to the major regions of the spine and extremities
✅ Why learn and use Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation (IASTM)?
Mechanical Conditions that reduce mobility-
1. Joint Mobility dysfunctions (JMDs)
2. Tissue extensibility dysfunctions (TEDs)
- Scarring & Fibrosis
- Fascial Tension
- Densification of Tissue layers
- Neural Tension
- Muscle Hypertonicity
- Hypertrophy
- Trigger Point Activity
(ref - Cook, Grey Movement 2011)
How can we treat the above using MKT IASTM?
Break up abnormal densities in tissue
Stimulate the nervous system
Reinitiate first-stage healing in the body via proliferation
Course Outline -
Over the course we will demonstrate the safe and effective use of MKT, IASTM on the following areas,-
Foot
Ankle
Lower leg
Knee
Upper Leg
Pelvis /SI Joint
Spine
Shoulder
Elbow
Wrist
Our fantastic heavy duty medical grade Move Kinetic Tools are included for you to use and keep and is included in the course fee of £500 which can be paid in instalments at no extra cost. Please get in touch for this option.
Please get in touch with any questions.
Thank You
Team STS
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