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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and ethical considerations (national and state/territory) for client assessment:codes of conductduty of careinformed consentmandatory reportingpractitioner/client boundaries privacy, confidentiality and disclosurerecords managementworking role boundariesworking within scope of practicepresenting symptoms that require referral to a medical practitionerwork health and safetyreferral options for massage practitioners, including: professional health services including complementary health modalitiescommunity resources and support services factors and barriers that may impact on massage assessment:physicalpsychologicalculturalfactors that affect individual health status:agegenderconstitutionlifestyledietpersonal and medical historyvalues and attitudesbalance of rest and activityphysical environmentsocial environmentclient information required prior to physical assessment, including:case historyclient expectationsconsiderations for performing physical massage assessments:environmentequipmentclient privacyclient instructionsphysical assessment techniques, how and when they are used, including:postural assessmentrange of motion (active, passive and resisted)palpationcontraindications to treatment and possible indications for referral, including: protracted pain or pain which is non re-producible or neural in origin fatiguecirculatory disordersinflammationlumps and tissue changesrashes and changes in the skinoedemamood alterationsinfectionchanges in habits such as appetite elimination or sleepbleeding and bruisingnausea, vomiting or diarrhoeatemperature-hot or coldmajor muscle anatomy, including:surface anatomyorigin and insertionpalpable bony landmarksreciprocal inhibition, antagonist/agonist, synergistsactions including individual actions, planes and synergistic groups of the following muscles:temporalis masseterfrontalissternocleidomastoidtrapeziuslevator scapulaelatissimus dorsisupraspinatusinfraspinatusteres majorteres minorsubscapularisrhomboidspectoralis majorpectoralis minorrectus abdominisquadratus lumborumpsoaserector spinae gluteus maximusgluteus mediuspiriformisquadricepstibialis anteriorperonealshamstringsadductor magnusadductor longusgastrocnemiussoleusdeltoidbiceps brachiitriceps brachiiflexor carpi radialusflexor carpi ulnarispalmaris longuspronator teresbrachioradialisextensor carpi radialissupinatorskeleton:bones of the bodymajor bony landmarks surface anatomy and palpable bony landmarksbone growth and remodellingjoints:joint classifications – fibrous, cartilaginous, synovial (glide, plane, ball/socket, saddle, hinge, condyloid, pivot) joint actionsphysiology:soft tissue:muscle contractionmuscle physiology (reflexes, chemistry, proprioceptors)tendons and ligamentsfascia hard tissue:bone growth and developmentabnormal bone growth recognition of in terms of contra-indications:inflammation (cardinal signs, physiology at cellular level)injury and wound healing (acute/chronic, stages, grades)pain typestendinopathy