Elite Sports Therapy
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Performance Enhancement

James Waslaski
Saturday, August 9 - Sunday, August 10, 2025
9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
16 CEs
Fee: $350

This unique course takes you far beyond the traditional event sports massage training. We will be looking at on-site sporting event work, injury prevention, injury rehabilitation, and performance enhancement techniques. Olympic and professional athletes realize the benefits of elite sports therapy to fit their specific needs. How do you customize your techniques to complement the work of the athletic trainer, sports medicine physician, physiotherapist, or chiropractor? Are you familiar with the biomechanics and common injuries of the various athletes? What about proper muscle firing patterns for optimal performance? You will know which techniques can harm performance if applied too close to the competition. You will analyze movements of multiple sports and eliminate overactive and underactive muscle activity to prevent sports injuries and enhance performance potential. This incredible course will set your work apart from the average sports massage therapist, and could pave the way to working at international sporting events or securing a career with your favorite professional sports team. Therapists will also look at spinal biomechanics and learn our amazing joint capsule work for hips and shoulders. The highlight of this class will be teaching our top 2-3 emergency go-to techniques for each body area, that take less than 5 minutes, to eliminate the primary cause of musculoskeletal pain in any part of the body.

For more information and to register, visit OrthoMassage.net

About the Instructor

James Waslaski integrates over 30 years of expertise in manual therapy to teach over 45 live seminars each year around the world. He is a published author and renowned international lecturer, teaching Chiropractors, Athletic Trainers, Osteopaths, Physical Therapists,  Physiotherapists, Physicians, Certified Personal Trainers, and Massage Therapists how to integrate their techniques to increase client outcomes. He is also a Certified Personal Trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine. James is an approved NCBTMB Provider. His textbook, Clinical Massage Therapy: A Structural Approach to Pain Management, was published by Pearson Publishing in 2011. He presents at state, national, and international Chiropractic, Osteopathic, Athletic Training, and Massage Therapy Conferences annually. James received the FSMTA International Achievement Award in 1997. He was inducted into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame in 2008. He was also nominated and awarded by his peers as Teacher of the Year at the Canadian Massage Conference in 2012 and the World Massage Festival in 2015.

Detailed information can be found on his website: www.orthomassage.net