- Multiple-choice question paper
- Worksheets
- Practical demonstration
- Coursework including a portfolio of evidence and assignments
This course starts in September 2024 and will take 26 weeks to complete. If you already hold a Level 3 qualification, you can study Level 4 in February 2025.
This sports massage therapy package combines all of the qualifications you need to work successfully as a sports massage therapist and includes both the Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Sports Massage Therapy and the Active IQ Level 4 Certificate in Sports Massage. This qualification package will provide you with the knowledge skills and abilities for advanced client assessments, enhanced massage practice and more detailed post massage advice.
Barnsley College offers this highly popular and comprehensive qualification to enable you to gain the practical and theoretical skills necessary to provide sports massage therapy. It will provide you with the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills to work in an unsupervised capacity as a sports massage practitioner with non-pathological (non-injured) tissue, as well as those needed to be able to treat and/or seek to correct common patterns of dysfunction and suitable pre-diagnosed injuries.
The course will be predominantly delivered through face-to-face theoretical and practical workshops. A variety of flexible delivery strategies will be used to accommodate individual learning styles. You are also required to study from home.
You will study the following units:
Sports Taping – you will study the following:
Manuals and learner assessment portfolios are provided. As a student within the Department of Sport and Public Services, you will be expected to wear appropriate and professional clothing at all times. Jeans and non-regulation tops are not allowed. You will also require all necessary writing materials and stationery.
Honeywell Sports campus
Honeywell Lane
Barnsley
S75 1BP
Successful completion of the qualification will allow you to become self-employed and run your own sports massage therapy business. You may also wish to seek employment within a fitness centre, spa, sports club, hotel or other leisure outlet. This qualification is also complimentary to the Active IQ Level 3 Diploma in Personal Training.
This course costs £2400. You can apply for an Advanced Learner Loan to cover the cost of this course. Please see the drop-down option below for more details. There is no other funding available for this course.
This course may be eligible for an Advanced Learner Loan. Contact our friendly Information Team on +44 (0)1226 216 123 or email info@barnsley.ac.uk. about eligibility and how to apply. You can also visit the Advanced Learner Loan page.
We have a state-of-the-art fitness village, Honeywell Sports Village where students can make use of our fitness suite, spinning studio and classes for competitive rates.
If the course is listed as full fee payable, you will have to pay for the course.
For further information please contact our friendly Information Team on +44 (0)1226 216 123 or email info@barnsley.ac.uk
Please note we reserve the right to change details without notice. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.