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Advanced and Deep Tissue Massage - Practitioner Accredited Diploma Course
Advanced and Deep Tissue Massage - Practitioner Accredited Diploma Course

Advanced and Deep Tissue Massage - Practitioner Accredited Diploma Course

£165.00

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Course Accreditation

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ACCREDITATION

This course is insurable, accredited or approved by the professional bodies, ABT - Associated Beauty Therapists, Towergate, Thinktree, CTHA, The Federation of Holistic Therapists, FHT.


Trusted, Recognised & Insurable Courses on Government/Councils Approved Accredited list.

COURSE INFORMATION, VENUES AND DATES AVAILABLE

The full course information, Course Reviews and 'Frequently Asked Questions' can all be found on this main course page below.

Please take your time to read this as it will cover all the questions that you may have.

After reading the full course information, to view the venues we offer for this course and the dates available, simply click on the 'VIEW DATES/BOOK NOW' purple button above, to be taken to that section.

Click on the link below to read the entry requirements

Course Information

🚩 You must have a level 3 in Full Body Massage or a Level 3 in Sports massage to be accepted, which is an ITEC, VTCT, BTEC level 3 or similar qualification. Unsure? CLICK HERE TO CHECK ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

✅ Accredited and Insurable Courses
✅ Trusted & Recognised Courses on Government/Councils Approved Lists
✅ Expert Tutors- Passionate, Kind & Caring
✅ Award-Winning, Leading National Accredited Training School for Over 25 Years

Venues in London and across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland


🧑‍🎓 This one day accredited diploma course is for existing therapists only
🙌 Small classes, ensuring individual attention
💷 Instalment payment options available for balance payment

🏅 Award-Winner Voted 'Best Training School' 5 Years in a Row

Course Information - Professional one day accredited Practitioner training course in Advanced and Deep Tissue Massage. This course also includes Trigger Point, Palpation, Neuromuscular Techniques and Hands Free safety techniques, all for the full body.


This course is a must for any massage therapist looking to enhance their skill set and increase their potential client base. It has been by far one of our most popular massage courses for many years as it teaches you so many techniques and is a popular affordable alternative for those of you who cannot afford the Sports therapist course.

Learn with passionate and caring tutors. A professionally recognised course, on the Government/Councils approved lists, making it insurable, allowing you to offer this therapy to your clients and charge.

Payment Instalments Available on Course Balances

We help you to budget with payment options if needed.

We also offer many FREE course reference videos and helpful after-course material.

Course Times

10.00am – 5.00pm on weekday and weekend dates.



On our one day courses, you will receive a 45 minute lunch break and a short afternoon break.

Worried that one day's training may not be enough?

We have you covered. We make sure you are confident in what you will learn with us, for our one day courses held at our venues, you can return to repeat the course at no charge!

On successful course completion, you will receive your certificate on the day of training.

Click on link below to continue reading the full course details and the venues/dates available ...

Course Entry Requirements

🚩 You must have a Level 3 in Full Body Massage or a Level 3 in Sports massage to be accepted, which is an ITEC, VTCT, BTEC level 3 or similar qualification.

Do you want to check if your massage qualification will be accepted for you to attend this course?

We are happy to help - Click on link below to continue reading the requirement details and who to contact if you require help ...

Course Content

Course Aims:

This Course Will Teach You How to Apply Deep Tissue and Advanced Massage Techniques

The Deep Muscles of the legs including Hamstrings, Ilio-Tibial Band & Quads
Muscles of the lower leg such as the Gastrocnemius
Muscles of the Back
Muscles of the Arms and Shoulders
Feet

Outcomes

Participants will have a good understanding of:
Adopting correct working posture for deep tissue work and hands free massage techniques
Observing client posture
How to develop their palpation skills
Recognising trigger points and how to apply the correct techniques for treating them
Utilising Neuromuscular Techniques and other advanced massage techniques to treat specific areas
How to perform a massage routine incorporating advanced massage techniques.

The course aims to help you develop advanced massage techniques which will enable you to be more confident and specific in your treatments.

This gives the potential to expand your client base as you will be able to offer more than just a relaxing massage. You will be able to treat clients with muscular pain and tenderness and lack of flexibility with more confidence.

Our Advanced and Deep Tissue Massage Course Includes:

Deep Tissue and Advanced Massage Techniques
Neuromuscular Techniques
Palpation
Trigger Point
Hands free techniques
Comprehensive manual

Unlike classic massage therapy, which is generally used for relaxation, this technique enables the therapist to focus on and treat specific problems. The general public is increasingly requesting deeper and more advanced techniques due to their effectiveness in treating a host of specific issues, the most prevalent being back and shoulder pain.

What conditions is deep tissue massage used for?

Chronic pain
Limited mobility
Recovery from injuries (e.g. whiplash, falls, sports injury)
Repetitive strain injury, such as carpal tunnel syndrome
Postural problems
Osteoarthritis pain
Fibromyalgia
Muscle tension or spasm

Learn how to improve your techniques

Palpation
Careful examination of soft tissue to identify areas of possible damage is obviously very important for the therapist. Just prodding your finger into a tender spot does not give you much information, other than that it is probably tender!

We'll look at how to improve your palpation skills so that you may more easily identify changes in texture, tension or damage in soft tissue, therefore you will have a better idea of how to treat the area.

Trigger points
Trigger points are highly irritable and localised areas within muscle fibres. These areas can vary from the size of a pea to a large lump. They are often tender and painful to touch and will frequently cause referred pain and discomfort.

Trigger points are tender points in the muscle fascia; these can be difficult to locate. The rationale behind using trigger point therapy is that it creates localised ischemia (lack or reduction of oxygen to the muscle tissue) which starve the trigger point of oxygen and nutrients needed to sustain contraction.

Neuro-muscular techniques (NMT) NMT can be employed to alleviate these areas and so reduce knots and adhesions. NMT is an extension of deep friction & pressure techniques; it is applied with thumbs, fingers, fists or elbows, and is a diagnostic palpatory tool designed to help assess and deal with chronic pain.

Hands Free Massage
Hands Free Massage techniques are a blend of Eastern and Western styles, ideal for all massage therapists and body-workers, whether recently qualified or experienced.

This course will teach you correct body position and working posture helping to maximize the effectiveness of your massage whilst minimizing injuries. Sadly, we often see therapists having to give up work due to burnout, poor posture, backache and repetitive strain injuries.

As therapists, we need to look after ourselves as well as offer wonderful therapies to our clients; after all, our bodies are our tools of the trade.

Course Times

10.00am – 5.00pm on weekday and weekend dates.



For our one day courses, you will receive a 45 minute lunch break and a short afternoon break. 

Award-Winning School - Excellent Tuition & Aftercare

To book a course, choose the venue and date you want from the list below, then click on the 'Book' button and you will be taken to the checkout.

Deposit & How to Pay the Balance

1. The deposit comes off the price of the course - No hidden extras, manuals, certificates and VAT are all included in the price.

2. How to pay your balance & instalment payment options, the venue address & directions - This will all be sent to you by the tutor, when you book.

3. If there are no dates showing for the venue of choice, please choose another venue that you can travel to (using the location option button on the left-hand side, above dates). Alternatively, email us to be put on the waiting list for further dates.

4. We have been offering award-winning courses for over 25 years, so when you book with us, you will receive a first-class course, taught by our expert, passionate and caring tutors.

To view dates & venues on offer, please scroll down this page and choose a location from the drop-down list.

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IN-HOUSE BOOKINGS

Venue & Tutor Info

The tutor will send you the full directions and times for the course you book.

Come and learn with our really friendly tutors. They are not only experts in teaching and extremely knowledgeable, but also very passionate, kind and patient.



Venues in London and across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Join the thousands of students we train each year. We have a long-term proven history and our feedback speaks for itself.



We also look forward to hearing how you got on once you have completed a course with us.

We love what we do and have passionate tutors who very much look forward to welcoming you on a course with them soon.

To read more about venue addresses and directions click on the 'Expand to Read More' button below ...

What do I need to bring?

- Students should bring pen/pencil, paper and own lunch. Loose/comfortable clothing should be worn.
- If you are booking a massage course - because massage will be undertaken, normal standards of cleanliness will be expected including short fingernails.
- All products that you use on the day whilst learning will be provided on the day of your training for massage, beauty and spiritual courses and are included in the price of your course, including towels and all equipment.
- The tutors will be able to advise you on the best and most affordable equipment and/or kits to buy when you train with them so you can use these with your clients, or if you wish to buy them before you train you can!
- We do have a product page on our website which offers discounts on many products that the tutors use, which you can check out any time.



Places - Waiting list options

All dates and availability are updated live as you book, once the deposit has been paid online. Please note the numbers available (which are showing when you visit our site) are correct on a minute to minute basis and will show full as soon as the course date becomes fully booked.

If the venue you selected says there are no dates available please choose a different venue you can travel to or you can email us to be put on the waiting list for any cancellations and we are happy to let you know as soon as one becomes free.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Read below why we're a top-rated, nationally accredited training school with over 25 years of excellence, as endorsed by our students and business clients.

Customer Reviews

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Carol Musgrove
Di Wilson

Di is a knowledgable professional tutor who ensures you are clear on technique and delivery of the skills being taught before you leave the workshop. I have completed many cpd training days with Di and always return to her fabulous place of practice. The skills taught by Di on the Advanced Deep Tissue Massage helped me relieve a family member - after one treatment - of chronic pain from multiple types of headaches. I am so grateful for these skills, and will continue to use these techniques in my practice.

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Amanda fryer-harris
Sue Cross

A fantastic course, we got through so much on the day & Sue teaches in such an easy way to understand. Her clinic is lovely & I met a lovely group on my training day. Only 6 of us which was great. Looking to book my next course with Gateway very soon & of course with Sue.

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Kat Buchanan
Karen Hastings

Really excellent day of learning from Karen! The group size was perfect to take in the info and receive one to one support. I sometimes struggle to take stuff in especially on a short course but she made it so accessible and memorable, the guide and video help too. Thanks Karen!

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N.J.
Laura Little

This was a great course and delivered perfectly by Laura.I really enjoyed it and and felt very comfortable the whole day.Laura is a lovely lady and very knowledgeable and I appreciated everything she taught us and also loads of good tips.I will definitely be booking more courses soon.

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Lesley Kerr
Laura Little

I attended your course in Glasgow a few Sundays ago for deep tissue. I started practicing straight away and have had some really lovely feedback about the treatments that I have been able to offer. I’ve had a mixture of runners/athletes, body builders and recreational gym goers and can’t thank you enough for the really thorough days training that you provided. Even the big guys have been super complementary about their treatments, I was worried about having the strength to deliver to them but the techniques you showed seem to just hit the spot.

Thank you, very appreciative and hope to do more courses in the future!

Recently the Head Trainer from Champney's Booked our Courses and her Feedback was the Following:

Name: Laura Tatlow
Champneys


Tutor feedback: Tutor was great, really informative and knowledgable, really enjoyed the course and looking forward to my next course with gateway.

Did the course you booked live up to your overall expectations: Yes

Would you consider another course with us, if not tell us why: Yes

Course feedback: already booked on 3 more!

Would it be ok for us to feature your comments on our feedback page of our web site: Yes

Why Learn With Gateway?

- Established for Over 25 Years

- Accredited, Certified, Insurable Courses

- Award-Winning Training School

- Winner 5 Years in a Row!

- Thousands of Happy Students

- Industry Leading Tutors

- Supporting You Whilst You Learn

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Trusted By

We have trained many professional therapists and make-up artists from large professional salons, hotels and spas at: Gleneagles 5 star hotel and Spa Scotland, Champneys Health Resorts, Bobbi Brown UK & Ireland.

We also train Make-up Artists at Large Filming Companie and at Hollyoaks for Channel 4, Top Spas like The Mandarin Oriental Spa at Knightsbridge, John Lewis Spa, Dior, The Sanctuary, Cliveden Hotel and Spa and many other leading companies.

Other clients include: NHS, National Pharmacies & Rehabilitation Centres Across the UK, Thousands of Therapists - For Professional Client Use And the General Public - For Personal Use. 

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