Course Overview
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)®. It is also the Core Module for people wishing to develop their skills in specific areas. See the Course Pathways for more details.

Aims:

• To enable participant awareness of the causes of musculoskeletal 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 assess their own health and well-being through analysis of 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 musculoskeletal injury occurs
• How to prevent/minimise injury
• Risk Assessment
• Condemned/Controversial Practices
• Laws and Regulations
• Problem Solving Activities
• Demonstration and Supervised Practise
• Neuromuscular Conditioning