TRAINING PROGRAMS:
A series of training programs are offered for various educational opportunities.

APPRENTICESHIP
Jo-Ann Wilson has had extensive professional work in education, and has learned that people have different learning styles. Some learn better in a private or semi-private relationship, and may feel educationally saturated after a week or more of intensive study. This program allows the trainee to study with Jo-Ann privately or semi-privately for one to four days and to focus on areas of the program that they feel necessary to support their practice. Therefore, Wilson and Meagher Sportstherapy offers the apprentice the best educational and cost effective mechanism to learn the Meagher method.


The bulk of the program consists of hands on work with many competition horses and/or amateur human athletes and some human clients with chronic structural and neurological problems. The apprentice will be able to engage in feedback and questions with trainers, riders, human clients,etc. The program occurs within a real-life situation under Jo-Ann's direction and teaching. Trainees may return from their own practice at any time to the apprenticeship to renew or expand their clinical work. Working at competitions is possible.

Since this program is designed to meet the individual needs of the apprentice, an apprentice may elect to focus on all of the components of the program, or only on those which the apprentice feels is needed in their stage of professional development.

Components of Apprenticeship Program

1. Anatomy and physiology as it pertains to motion in both humans and/or equines.
2. Problems in motion and their potential causes.
3. Accurate application of Meagher method of sportsmassage.
4. Aquisition of observation skills regarding the movement of a horse or human and acquiring the ability to determine where the client may be tight and how that tightness relates to performance.
5. Conditioning and strengthening program for clients in order to improve their overall capacity for their required performance work.
6. Listening to an equine trainer, rider, or a human client's concerns of limitations in movement and then knowing where to work for improvements.
7. Body mechanics and fitness program for the therapist.
8. The effects of tack, saddle, draw reins, lungeing, etc. on muscular tightness and motion for equines.
9. Communicating with the lay person and other professionals.
10. Ethics and standards of treatment.
11. Contraindications for both horse and human.
12. Developing a solid business.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPRENTICESHIP

1. Graduate of an AMTA accredited massage therapy school
2. Hands-on work in massage therapy with humans
3. Other professionals such as OTR and physical therapists are welcome to apply