Accredited course details

Current

Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA) (external link)

01/Jan/2017 

30/Jun/2024 

 

Victorian Registration and Qualification Authority 

Completion of this course enables qualified Remedial Massage Therapist to practise as a Myotherapist in their own practice, or as a member of a health clinic
The vocational outcomes of the Advanced Diploma of Myotherapy are to:
• Establish and manage a myotherapy practice; including business skills and legal compliance.
• Manage health risks in a myotherapy environment; including aspects of health risk analysis, personal and premises hygiene, as well as infection prevention and control.
• Work effectively within a myotherapy framework; including working within clinic and regulation guidelines, achieving quality standards, preparing client education and health strategies, as well as ongoing performance development and working with other services/networks.
• Perform myotherapy clinical assessment; including accurately gathering and interpreting information to assess a client’s condition in order to provide myotherapy treatment.
• Plan myotherapy treatment strategy; including negotiating with the client.
• Provide myotherapy treatment according to the techniques and practices of a myotherapy framework.
• Provide myofascial dry needling treatments.
• Source and evaluate relevant research information and apply findings to own myotherapy clinical practice
• Employ communication techniques to establish, build and maintain relationships with clients, colleagues and other stakeholders.

22316VIC Advanced Diploma of Myotherapy supersedes, and is equivalent to 22248VIC Advanced Diploma of Myotherapy.

Nominal hours 855.