24 CE FL LMT Renewal Home Study Package Sports Massage with Active Assisted Upper Body Stretching (AAS) with Sanitation Training Elective

PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE THIS NONREFUNDABLE, TIME-SENSITIVE COURSE UNLESS YOU ARE READY TO COMPLETE IT WITHIN 1-MONTH OF PURCHASE.  This course must be completed within 31-days of purchase, before it expires and your account is subsequently deactivated. Course access time starts from the minute of purchase.  Please do not wait until the last couple of days to start or complete training, because no training extensions are available for any reason, including tech issues. 

It is recommended to take this computer based training on an updated desktop computer or laptop. This training is provided via prerecorded video, with printed handouts that can be downloaded, as well as quiz(es) plus a course survey, to meet board requirements to issue CE credit.  If you're unfamiliar with our home study training, we recommend viewing this quick start video:

Our automated systems will send a course access link to your registered email address after purchase. You can also login to your paid training at lms.CeInstitute.com with your registered email address, and then use the "Forgot Password" link if you did not set up a password, or cannot remember it. 

This course is approved by NCBTMB and Florida board of massage. FL Board of Massage accepts 12 CEs of this home study course as its "regular" hands-on relevant to massage technique CE credit. If you are taking this for CE credit and unsure if this course meets your CE requirements for other states or licenses, please check with your own board to ensure you will receive the credit you need PRIOR TO registering or paying.  

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This 24 CE FL LMT renewal package includes everything required to renew an active Florida Massage Therapist license. All the mandatory subjects plus 12 CEs of hands-on/relevant to massage course training are included as follows:  

• 12 CE Hour Sports Massage with Active Assisted Upper Body Stretching (AAS) (this course fulfills Florida’s 12 CEs of "relevant to massage techniques" relicensing requirement)

• 5 CE Hours Germs, COVID-19, & Proper Sanitation for a LMT 

• 1 CE Hour Human Trafficking

• 2 CE Hours Ethics

• 2 CE Hours Medical Errors Prevention

• 2 CE Hours FL Massage Laws & Rules

Please immediately watch the first tutorial video in your private home study account after purchase. It will provide instructions on how to complete your training plus download your companion training materials (aka student files) and CE certificate. The school regularly reports CE hours to CE Broker within 1-week of your total package completion. Students must complete their entire 24 CE training package before it expires to receive CE credit. Our automated systems cannot provide partial CE credit or a certificate for incomplete training.  

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Your 12 CE Hour Hands-on, Relevant to Massage Techniques training will include: Sports Event Massage with Active Assisted Upper Body Stretching (AAS) starts with sports work taught by retired professional athlete, Selena Belisle. Training includes working with athletes and teaches a basic sports massage event routine and other athletically inclined work.  Half of this course is focused upon Sports Massage Event Training, including:

• Sporting Massage Event Intake Process
• How to setup for Sporting Event Massage
• How to Perform Quick Turnover & Sanitation Techniques at Sporting Events
• A 10-15 minutes Sports Massage Routine to be performed clothed at Sporting Events
• Review of Muscle Movement, Contraction & Stretch Reflex (or lack of in extreme athletes)
• How to Relieve Muscle Cramping with Hands-on Practice of Reciprocal Inhibition
• Review of Thermal Therapy & Cryotherapy Practices in Sports (includes how to make cyrotherapy packs from household goods for sports strains and sprains)
• Recognizing Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke in Athletes

The last half of this hands-on workshop teaches you an intensive, effective stretching protocol for the upper body, which is taught by Ben Benjamin, PhD. Active Assisted Active Assisted Stretching (AAS) energizes the body, enhances the health of the tissues, increases flexibility, protects the body from injury, enhances the healing process, re-aligns the fascia and makes building strength more effective. Active Assisted Stretching is especially good for athletes, the elderly, and the injured, and can also benefit the neurologically impaired.

What sets AAS apart from other stretching routines is it is not overly strenuous to the practitioner and it is easy to learn.

The client actively participates in the stretching process, with a gentle, timed, targeted assist from the therapist at the end of every stretch to increase range of motion along with many other benefits. These techniques are much easier on the therapist’s body than massage and bodywork. 

The upper body stretches include the neck, shoulders, arms, wrists and hands.

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About Your Instructor for Active Assisted Stretching: Ben E. Benjamin, holds a Ph.D. in sports medicine and was the founder and President of the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts for over 30 years. He has studied under Dr. James Cyriax widely known for his pioneering work in orthopedic medicine.  Dr. Benjamin has been teaching since 1970 and has been in private practice for over 50 years. He has created dozens of webinars that are viewed by therapists around the world. He is the author of dozens articles on working with injuries as well as the widely used books in the field, Listen To Your Pain, Are You Tense?, and Exercise Without Injury. He is also the co-author of The Ethics of Touch and Conversation Transformation.