This course is intended for people who have had no experience in the past 3 years of Moving and Handling based on the Neuromuscular Approach to Human Movement (NMAHM)®

 

Aim:

• To enable participant awareness of the causes of musculo-skeletal injury
• To enable the participant to gain knowledge/skills associated with client moving/movement
• To enable participants to implement safer practise in the workplace
• To offer participants opportunities to improve their own health and well-being through changes to their habitual movement pattern

 

Objectives:

• Participants will gain skills/knowledge to allow then to assess individual/personal risks within movement situations
• Participants will be aware of Condemned/Controversial Practices
• Participants will be aware of Laws & Regulations relating to Moving & Handling
• Participants will develop Moving & Handling Problem Solving skills

 

Course Content:

• How musculo-skeletal injury occurs
• How to prevent/minimise injury
• Risk Assessment
• Condemned/Controversial Practices
• Laws and Regulations
• Problem Solving Activities
• Demonstration and Supervised Practise

 

HNMS Moving and Handling courses are person-centred and empowering: promoting awareness of manual handling risks, solutions for safer movement and therapeutic benefits to self-health & well-being.

 

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