ADHD & Massage
Lær at planlægge og afvikle et specialiseret massageforløb, til særligt sensitive børn og unge med eller uden diagnoser. Tilmeld KursusThe ADHD and massage course provides knowledge that the body’s tactile senses can be a shortcut to increased well-being for particularly sensitive children and young people – with or without diagnoses.
The tactile sense (sense of touch) is a complex sense with many functions that are important for psychological and social contact with others, precision of movement, survival (sensing cold/heat), etc.
One of the biological functions activated by tactile touch is that the brain releases the hormone Oxytocin – also known as the ‘love hormone’. Oxytocin plays an important role in how people connect with each other. Oxytocin also helps regulate the body’s sense of happiness, stress levels (cortisol), concentration, etc. tactile senses
Testimonials
“Dear Anja,
I attended an ADHD massage course in the fall with you and jI just want to tell you that it has worked incredibly well for my son. I gave him a massage every day for 14 days after the course and he fell asleep within 20 minutes. I gave him an arousal lowering massage followed by a pressure massage. Then it became every second – third day – and now a couple of times a week – rarely I give him arousal lowering massage, otherwise we can “make do” with pressure massage/ball massage. It’s been incredibly effective and makes so much sense – we don’t have the same conflicts in the evenings as we did before – Viggo is asleep every night at 8.30pm – it’s amazing!
I just want to say thank you for your great way of imparting your knowledge and I am really so glad that I found your course.
How tactile touch works
For some people, touching the skin can hurt or feel very uncomfortable – these can be described as being tactile shy, which is particularly common for children and young people with diagnoses such as autism and ADHD.
If you work correctly with tactile shyness, you can desensitize it with great benefit. This requires a slow approach and meeting sensitivity with a versatile pedagogical approach to touch, where you create predictability and meet the child/person where they are in the moment.
The ADHD Massage course aims to introduce tactile touch and basic massage for children and adolescents. After completing the course, participants will be able to plan and carry out a specialized massage course for children, adolescents and entire groups of children – with and without diagnoses.
The course contains 3 main elements
10% Anatomy and physiology of the body
20% Pedagogy
70% Practical exercises
You will learn the following treatment techniques
- Pressure/Massage on foot
- Massage on hands
- Storytelling on back (remote focus/direct)
- Song progression on back
- Ball massage on the entire back of the ball
- Full back pressure massage
- Ironing and massage
- Arausal lowering massage
- Arausal elevating massage
- Massage customized for the client
- Facial massage
Admission requirements
The course is designed for massage therapists, parents, grandparents and various educational professionals who want new knowledge and treatment techniques in tactile touch for particularly sensitive children and young people – with and without diagnoses.
Unique to this course is our good experience with the combination of course participants consisting of massage therapists, parents, grandparents and people from various educational professionals. This combination means that different perspectives and experiences with special sensitivity are often contributed, which provides an incredible holistic understanding of the area and creates a basis for debate and sparring.
Course dates
The course runs over 2 days, with each teaching day lasting approximately 6 hours. The course therefore contains a total of 12 teaching hours and you can choose between the following classes:
Saturday 1 + 2. March 2025 – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
PRICE: KR. 2.950
Teacher: Anja Schandorff
Anja is a trained school teacher, ACT teacher, fitness instructor and qualified physiotherapist. In addition, Anja has taken several continuing education courses in massage, including children’s massage. Anja teaches anatomy/massage and tactile massage in our masseur training program and she teaches all our children’s massage courses.
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“Dear Anja,
I attended an ADHD massage course in the fall with you and jI just want to tell you that it has worked incredibly well for my son. I gave him a massage every day for 14 days after the course and he fell asleep within 20 minutes. I gave him an arousal lowering massage followed by a pressure massage. Then it became every second – third day – and now a couple of times a week – rarely I give him arousal lowering massage, otherwise we can “make do” with pressure massage/ball massage. It’s been incredibly effective and makes so much sense – we don’t have the same conflicts in the evenings as we did before – Viggo is asleep every night at 8.30pm – it’s amazing!
I just want to say thank you for your great way of imparting your knowledge and I am really so glad that I found your course.