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Sign Up: Sports Taping and Kinesiology Taping Online Courses

Learn Essential Skills for Sports Taping and Kinesiology Taping from Expert Sports Rehabilitation Professionals, Dr Allan Munro, and Mike Carolan

Sterosport are delighted to announce a new series of online sports taping courses are now available through the Sterosport teachable platform.

Sports taping is an essential skill for therapists working with active people. Learning the principles of sports taping, when and how to apply a range of sports taping techniques will provide therapists with vital skills for work with sports teams, elite athletes and in clinic.

Learn sports taping skills from sports rehabilitation professionals, Dr Allan Munro, and Mike Carolan. Hosted online on the Sterosport teachable platform, participants can work through the courses and practice techniques for sports taping and kinesiology taping in their own time.

The Sterosport teachable platform enables therapists to access quality sports taping content with flexibility and control to learn at your own pace and time convenient to you.

The courses cost just £50 each or £100 for both courses including a free pack of Steroplast sports tapes. The courses are packed with information and content to suit all learners including resource packs and presentations to download, videos, assessment questions and course certificates. In addition, learners can attend free Q&A sessions with course tutors and fellow learners to share ideas, collaborate and ask the experts any questions about sports taping and kinesiology taping.

The sports taping course includes 15 essential sports taping techniques, covering the lower limb, trunk, and upper limb. The kinesiology taping course includes 16 techniques, also covering the lower limb, trunk, and upper limb. From hand to foot, the courses feature taping techniques for all body parts and different types of sports injuries.

Dr Allan Munro Said, “We have been planning this course for a long time and are delighted to have partnered with Steroplast to finally make it happen.
We hope it will benefit new graduates and those looking to refresh their taping skills. We even learnt some new skills from each other whilst we were filming!”

What do the Online Sports Taping and Kinesiology Taping Courses Include?

The courses cost just £50 each and include:

  • Resources to download
  • Step by step videos
  • Assessment questions
  • Certificate of course completion
  • Quality Steroplast sports tapes (Free when booking onto both courses)
  • Access to free Q&A sessions with course tutors

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The courses provide an overview of different types of sports tapes, which sports tape to use for different types of sports injury, and essential sports taping and kinesiology taping techniques for the upper and lower limb.

Expert Tutors

The expert tutors for the online sports taping and kinesiology taping courses are Dr Allan Munro and Mike Carolan. Both are respected sports rehabilitation professionals with experience in working with sports teams, elite athletes and in academic roles.

Dr Allan Munro

Allan is the Programme Leader for the flagship Sports Rehabilitation degree at the University of Salford. He completed his Sport Rehabilitation degree at Salford in 2007 and went on to complete his PhD focusing on the assessment and prevention of knee injuries, in particular the ACL. Allan retains a keen research interest in exercise rehabilitation, particularly of the knee and lower limb tendinopathies.

Allan has worked in Rugby Union since 2008 and has been the Head of the Medical Team at Sedgley Tigers for over 10 years. He is also Lead Sports Rehabilitator for the North of England Counties U-20s having also worked with England Handball & GB U-20s Basketball. Allan consults for several clubs across sports including football, netball and cricket through his clinical service, Manchester Sports Rehab.

Allan is also the Executive Committee Chair and CPD officer for the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators (BASRaT). Learn more about our Injury Rehab Network events with BASRaT.

Mike Carolan

Mike teaches across all aspects on the flagship Sports Rehabilitation degree course at the University of Salford. He completed his Sport Rehabilitation degree at Salford in 2006 and went on to complete his Masters focusing on the biomechanical assessment and prevention of knee injuries in 2010 from MMU. He has also completed post-graduate qualifications in Strength and Conditioning, Sports Performance Coaching and Nutrition.

Mike has spent 15 years working across all aspects of healthcare, rehabilitation, and sport, having spent nearly 4 years working in the MoD setting up a bespoke rehab program in Chester and previously working for Jaguar Land Rover in occupational health. He has also previously set up private practices with Allan Munro.

His sports work has seen him spend 6 years in National League Rugby Union with Macclesfield RUFC, he has consulted at several professional football teams and currently works for England and GB Basketball. In 2019 he worked across all age groups from the under 15’s through to the senior teams. He was lead Therapist and S&C supporting the men’s under 20’s to their highest ever finish at the European Championships in Israel. In 2020 he was part of a working group to keep athletes fit and engaged. Mike is also Lead Performance Coach for Andrew Robertson, the Great Britain 2017 and 2020 60m Indoor Champion.

Prerequisites

Learners should be studying or working in a sports rehabilitation/ therapy/ physiotherapy/ chiropractic/ osteopath/ massage therapist role.

Find Out More About the Online Sports Taping and Kinesiology Taping Courses

Further information and registration for the sports taping course is available here, information and registration for the kinesiology taping course is available here and information for registration for both courses, including a free pack of Steroplast sports tapes is here.

For more information and any queries about the sports taping and kinesiology taping courses, please contact Andrew Watson on 0800 978 8301 or email andrew@sterosport.co.uk.


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