This course examines diabetes and explains the steps you should take as a massage therapist when treating clients with diabetes. Learn about the types of diabetes, how they affect the body and ways to (in a massage therapy setting) manage complications both from the disease and the medications prescribed to patients.
This course includes short videos to enhance the text content.
When you finish this course, you will be able to:
- Describe how massage therapists can assist the growing number of those with diabetes.
- Define types, symptoms, causes and possible controls for types 1 and 2 diabetes.
- Describe the etiology, signs, symptoms and treatments for types 1 and 2 diabetes.
- List contraindications for massage therapy for those with diabetes.
Julie Goodwin, LMT, is a longtime massage therapy educator, the author of Touch & Movement: Palpation and Kinesiology for Massage Therapists, and creator of TxPlanner.org. She is a 2018 Inductee into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame.
Course Expiration
Please note that you must complete each AMTA online learning course and pass the exam one year from the date of purchase. If you do not complete the course and pass the exam within one year, you will be required to re-purchase the course.
Online courses expire one year from the date of purchase. When a course expires, you will no longer have access to the course materials and will be required to re-purchase the course.
Course Approval Code(s)
LCEU0003703, MSP #229
Copyright
This course contains information that is proprietary. None of the material contained within this course may be used without the express written permission
of AMTA unless otherwise indicated in the course. As a reminder, before practicing any new modalities or techniques, check with your state’s massage therapy
regulatory authority to ensure they are within the state’s defined scope of practice for massage therapy.
Refunds
Online courses are non-refundable. AMTA will not cover fees incurred from duplicate payments, insufficient funds, stopped payments or credit/debit cards over
credit limits.