Core Elements

Core Elements Sports Massage and Sports Therapy Training School offering a range of accredited qualifications and CPD Short courses. Swindon based Injury Clinic
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Face to Face, Live Online & Fully Online courses available. Dawn Morse of Core Elements Training provides accredited qualifications in Sports Therapy modalities, including Level 3 Massage Therapy, Level 4 Sports and Remedial Massage and Level 5 diploma in Sports and Clinical Therapy. A range of accredited CPD short courses are also available via Face to Face and Live Online delivery, including: El

ectrotherapy, Dry Needling, Dry Cupping, Sports Taping and Clinical Yoga. Training courses are delivered by Dawn Morse and her team. Dawn is the directing founder or Core a Elements Training. Dawn was a Sports Science and Therapy Lecture for the Open University and The University of Bath. Dawn has taken part in several research projects for Exeter University and has had many articles published in International Therapist, Massage World and Om Yoga and Lifestyle Magazine. These articles can be found on the Core Elements website.

25/07/2025

✨ Love your new book John - .method 👍.

Really well detailed but still easy to digest with plenty of images and access to demonstration videos 👌.

📚 This book will be going on our Level 5 Sports and Clinical Therapy reading list, along with the reading list for our Mobilisation short course.

⭐️ Thank you for my signed copy John 🙂

🔥 Enhance Your Sports Massage Therapy or Clinical therapy treatment with Hot Stones 🔥Whether you’re looking to expand yo...
25/07/2025

🔥 Enhance Your Sports Massage Therapy or Clinical therapy treatment with Hot Stones 🔥

Whether you’re looking to expand your clinical offerings or add a new dimension to your soft tissue work, our Hot Stones for Sports Massage Course – available face-to-face or live online, will teach you how to integrate hot stones safely and effectively into sports massage or clinical therapy treatments.

💡 Why use Hot Stones in Sports Massage?

✔️ Enhances circulation and tissue oxygenation
✔️ Warms and softens deeper layers of muscle, reducing tension more efficiently
✔️ Allows deeper, more effective work with less strain on the therapist
✔️ Promotes relaxation and recovery – ideal for both athletes and non-sporting clients
✔️ Increases client comfort during intense soft tissue sessions

🎓 Why Choose This Course?

✅ Learn practical techniques for using stones in warm-up, deep tissue, and recovery
✅ Gain skills that are adaptable within clinical environments
✅ Accredited CPD with insurable outcomes
✅ Taught by experienced tutors in small groups for quality feedback

📆 Delivery Options and dates:

✨ Face-to-Face: Get hands-on experience with direct tutor guidance - on 18th September 2025.

💻 Live Online: Learn in real time from the comfort of your clinic or home – with opportunities to ask questions, receive feedback, and access recorded content after the session - on 27th September 2025.

✨To find out more about our September courses ➡️ https://coreelements.uk.com/hot-stones-sport-massage-therapy-course/

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✨ A few images from behind the scenes of yesterday’s short course in , which was delivered by our fab tutor Katie 👌. ...
22/07/2025

✨ A few images from behind the scenes of yesterday’s short course in , which was delivered by our fab tutor Katie 👌.

Katie loved delivering this modality to a great group of therapists who all took to the modality really quickly 👍.

🙏🏼 A Thank You to / .uk for supplying their fantastic heated scrapers and mini scrapers for the group to try out, they’re fantastic and I use them all the time in my own clinical work 👍.

📆 If you missed out on our July course and would like to up-skill innIASTM, then join us in this or this .

➡️ https://coreelements.uk.com/iastm/

📣 What’s Coming Up This September – Expand Your Skills, Grow Your PracticeReady to boost your clinical skills and offer ...
21/07/2025

📣 What’s Coming Up This September – Expand Your Skills, Grow Your Practice

Ready to boost your clinical skills and offer more to your clients? September is packed with hands-on, accredited CPD courses to help you stand out and stay ahead. Whether you're looking to specialise, refresh, or diversify—there's something for every therapist.

🗓️ Here’s some of what’s on the calendar:

🔥 Dry Cupping for Manual Therapists
Learn how to safely and effectively use cupping to reduce fascial tension, improve circulation, and enhance recovery. A versatile tool with instant client impact.

💉 Dry Needling (Foundation)
Target trigger points, reduce pain, and improve mobility with one of the most effective clinical techniques in musculoskeletal care.

🌡️ Hot Stones for Sports Massage
Add depth, warmth, and efficiency to your treatments while reducing strain on your hands. Ideal for recovery, deep tissue, and relaxation-focused sessions.

🧘 Passive Stretching Techniques
Develop your hands-on stretching skills and integrate static and PNF techniques to improve mobility, posture, and performance.

🤰 Pregnancy Massage
Support mothers-to-be safely and confidently with tailored techniques to ease discomfort, reduce stress, and promote wellbeing during all trimesters.

✅ All courses are:

Taught by expert tutors
CPD accredited and insurable
Available in small-group, face-to-face settings and live online (where applicable)
Designed for immediate clinical application

🎟️ To find out more or to book a place ➡️ https://coreelements.uk.com

Dry Needling & Medical Acupuncture for Women’s HealthBroaden your scope. Deepen your impact. Expand your expertise.This ...
18/07/2025

Dry Needling & Medical Acupuncture for Women’s Health

Broaden your scope. Deepen your impact. Expand your expertise.

This advanced course is designed for therapists already trained in dry needling who are ready to explore its powerful application in supporting women’s health—from the postpartum period to menopause and beyond.

🧠 What You'll Learn:

✅ Refresher on safety, contraindications, and techniques from our foundation course
✅ In-depth understanding of key women’s health conditions
✅ Practical, hands-on application of dry needling and medical acupuncture for:

🔹 Postpartum issues – Diastasis Recti, Pelvic Girdle Pain, Postnatal Depression
🔹 Menopausal symptoms – Hot flushes, Insomnia, Low mood, Headaches, Overactive bladder
🔹 Chronic complaints – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Joint stiffness, Dysmenorrhoea (painful periods), and more

💡 Clinical Transferability:

While this course focuses on female-specific health concerns, many of the techniques can be adapted to treat similar presentations in men, including:
✔️ Low mood, fatigue, and sleep disruption
✔️ Musculoskeletal issues such as joint pain and chronic stiffness
✔️ Headaches, migraines, and neurological sensitivity
✔️ Bladder urgency and pelvic dysfunction
✔️ Carpal tunnel and nerve-related pain

This course offers a biopsychosocial approach to acupuncture and dry needling—helping you treat the whole person, not just symptoms.

🎓 Suitable for therapists already trained in Dry Needling or Medical Acupuncture.
📍 Small group teaching with real-time practical support.
🧾 Accredited and insurable CPD.

📅 Wednesday 3rd & Thursday 4th December 2025 – Swindon

👉 https://coreelements.uk.com/dry-needling-medical-acupuncture-for-womens-health/

Advance Your Skills. Expand Your Toolkit. Elevate Your Career.Our Level 5 Diploma in Sports and Clinical Therapy is desi...
15/07/2025

Advance Your Skills. Expand Your Toolkit. Elevate Your Career.

Our Level 5 Diploma in Sports and Clinical Therapy is designed for qualified therapists ready to move beyond massage and become multi-skilled, clinical-level practitioners.

💥 This intensive course includes 8 hands-on modules, a course intro, revision day, and a final practical assessment — each packed with practical, evidence-informed training.

🧠 What You’ll Learn:

Each module introduces a powerful new modality that can be integrated into treatment, assessment, or rehabilitation, including:

🔹 Rehabilitation Programming for sports and general populations
🔹 Dry Needling for trigger point and neuromuscular pain
🔹 Electrotherapy & Ultrasound to stimulate healing and reduce inflammation
🔹 Joint Mobilisations & Manual Therapy to restore mobility and function
🔹 Clinical Assessment Skills to confidently identify musculoskeletal dysfunction
🔹 Myofascial Dry Cupping for fascial release and circulation
🔹 Sports Taping & Strapping for acute care and injury support
🔹 Kinesiology Taping for dynamic, movement-based support strategies

🎓 Why Choose This Course?

✅ Accredited by the FHT and Sports Therapy Organisation (STO)
✅ Hands-on learning with expert tutors
✅ Access to online learning platform
✅ Learn in-demand clinical skills that clients, teams, and employers are actively looking for
✅ Boost your scope of practice and confidence in dealing with injury, dysfunction, and rehab

Who Can Join?

This course is suitable for therapists with a Level 4 qualification in Sports Massage, Clinical Massage, or Deep Tissue Therapy (or equivalent).

📅 Flexible delivery across multiple modules
🏅 On completion, you'll be awarded a full Level 5 Diploma in Sports and Clinical Therapy – professionally recognised and insurable.

Find out more ➡️ https://coreelements.uk.com/level-5-diploma-sports-and-clinical-therapy/

Turn Your Passion Into a Career – Become a Qualified Sports Massage TherapistReady to change direction, upskill, or laun...
12/07/2025

Turn Your Passion Into a Career – Become a Qualified Sports Massage Therapist

Ready to change direction, upskill, or launch a new career in health and wellness? Our hands-on, accredited Sports Massage courses are designed to give you the skills, confidence, and qualification to work professionally as a Sports Massage Therapist — with real clients, real results, and real earning potential.

🧠 Why Choose Sports Massage?

Sports massage isn’t just for athletes. It helps:

✔️ Reduce muscle tension and pain
✔️ Improve mobility and performance
✔️ Support recovery from injury
✔️ Enhance circulation and relaxation
✔️ Prevent future injuries in active and everyday clients

Whether you're working with weekend warriors, office workers, or professional athletes, sports massage is a versatile and high-demand treatment that delivers real impact.

📚 Why Our Course?

Learn through a fully practical, hands-on approach — you’ll give and receive massage in every session

Work with different body types and muscular presentations, learning how to tailor your treatment style

Receive expert guidance from qualified tutors in small group settings (max 12–14 learners)

Access a complete online revision platform (website & app) with videos, theory, and demonstrations — and record your own practicals too

Gain accredited qualifications through the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT) and Sports Therapy Organisation (STO)

🎓 Our Pathway: From Beginner to more advanced

✅ Level 3 Certificate in Sports Massage – learn the foundations and deliver full-body sports maintenance massage
✅ Level 4 Diploma in Sports & Remedial Massage – advance into injury assessment, treatment planning, and hands-on injury management
✅ Level 3/4 combined Diploma in Sports & Remedial Massage – will develop both your foundation massage skills and your advanced massage skills.

By the end of the combined course, you’ll be able to assess and treat sports injuries, gain insurance, and begin your career in clinics, gyms, sports teams — or run your own private practice.

This course isn’t just training — it’s a life change.

📅 Limited spaces per intake (12–14 students)
📍 Taught in person with full tutor support
🧾 Insurable. Accredited. Career-ready.
👉https://coreelements.uk.com/sport-massage-diploma-and-certificate-courses/

🧠 Stretch Your Knowledge – Hands-On Passive Stretching CPD CourseTake your manual therapy skills further with this highl...
11/07/2025

🧠 Stretch Your Knowledge – Hands-On Passive Stretching CPD Course

Take your manual therapy skills further with this highly practical, tutor-led course focused on passive static and PNF stretching techniques. Ideal for therapists looking to deepen their understanding of stretching as both an integrated and standalone clinical treatment.

What You’ll Learn:
✅ Key differences between stretching modalities: passive vs. active, static vs. PNF
✅ When and how to use each technique to suit your client’s needs
✅ The benefits of couch-based stretching and how to safely apply it in clinic
✅ Practical demonstrations + hands-on practice with real-time tutor feedback
✅ Clinical reasoning behind when stretching adds value in rehab or recovery

How It can be applied in your Practice:

💡 As part of a treatment session:
-Use targeted passive stretches to complement soft tissue work
-Help restore range of motion and reduce muscular tension
-Prep clients for movement-based rehab

💡 As a stand-alone session:
-Offer focused stretch therapy for flexibility, posture, or recovery
-Great for athletes, desk-based clients, or those with chronic tightness
-A valuable, insurable add-on service to expand your clinical offering

📍 In-person, small-group format – expect plenty of guidance and opportunity to practise
🎓 Accredited by FHT & STO | Insurable with FHT, STO, Balens, and BGI
🛏️ Be ready to treat and be treated – this course is fully hands-on!

📅 Next Date: 25th September 2025
📍 Location: Swindon
🎟️ Limited spaces available – book early to avoid missing out!
👉 https://coreelements.uk.com/passive-stretching/

⭐️ Looking to treat pain, dysfunction, and movement restrictions more effectively?Join our intensive 2-day Dry Needling ...
08/07/2025

⭐️ Looking to treat pain, dysfunction, and movement restrictions more effectively?

Join our intensive 2-day Dry Needling Course designed for hands-on learning, real-time feedback, and immediate clinical application.

🔹 Why Dry Needling?

Dry needling is a powerful, evidence-based technique used to:
✔️ Reduce myofascial trigger point pain
✔️ Improve range of motion and neuromuscular control
✔️ Stimulate healing in chronic soft tissue conditions
✔️ Support faster recovery in both athletic and general populations
✔️ Integrate seamlessly into physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, and sports massage practice

🔹 Why This Course?

✔️ Comprehensive training across key muscle groups
✔️ In-person, hands-on supervision by expert instructors
✔️ Focus on safety, technique, and clinical reasoning
✔️ Ideal for therapists looking to confidently integrate dry needling into everyday practice
✔️ CPD accredited – build skills and meet professional development goals

📅 Dates:
Swindon - Monday 28th & Tuesday 29th July 2025 (or Sept 2025)
from 09:30 – 17:00 daily

Liverpool - Tuesday 14th & Wednesday 15th October 2025
from 09:30 – 17:00 daily

➡️ https://coreelements.uk.com/dry-needling-courses/
📍 Location: Swindon and Liverpool

💫 IASTM: A Modern Take on an Ancient TechniqueIASTM (Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation) has roots in the anci...
05/07/2025

💫 IASTM: A Modern Take on an Ancient Technique

IASTM (Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation) has roots in the ancient East Asian practice of Gua Sha, where tools were used to stimulate circulation and relieve pain. Modern IASTM builds on that foundation with clinical precision, using specially designed instruments to treat soft tissue dysfunction based on fascial and neurophysiological principles.

✨ The theory?

IASTM creates controlled microtrauma that stimulates:
🔹 Fibroblast activity for tissue repair
🔹 Neuro-modulation to reduce pain
🔹 Improved fascial mobility for better movement quality

✨ Key Benefits:

✔️ Breaks down adhesions and scar tissue
✔️ Reduces chronic muscle tension and pain
✔️ Enhances range of motion and flexibility
✔️ Accelerates healing by boosting circulation
✔️ Protects the therapist’s hands and joints

✨ Clinical Use:

IASTM integrates easily into rehab sessions—assess the restriction, treat with the tool, then reinforce with movement, stretching, and strength work.

✨ Commonly used for:

Tendinopathies
Post-op scar management
Fascia-related pain
Sports injury rehab

💫 Looking to add this evidence-informed, hands-saving technique to your practice? Our accredited IASTM day course is available in both and and features scrapers along with the other tools.

To find out more ➡️ https://coreelements.uk.com/iastm/

✨Expand Your Clinical Toolbox with our Electrotherapy Extension Course✨Take your treatment skills to the next level with...
04/07/2025

✨Expand Your Clinical Toolbox with our Electrotherapy Extension Course✨

Take your treatment skills to the next level with our accredited day course covering in-demand electrotherapy technologies: Shockwave, Class 4 Laser, PEMF and TECAR Therapy.

These modalities will help you to treat wider conditions within your clinical work.

⚡️What You’ll Learn:

Gain practical, evidence-based training in four powerful modalities that are transforming rehab and recovery outcomes.

✅ Shockwave Therapy – Breaks down scar tissue, stimulates healing, and treats chronic tendinopathies with precision
✅ Class 4 Laser Therapy – Accelerates tissue repair, reduces pain and inflammation, and promotes cellular regeneration
✅ PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy) – Enhances circulation, bone healing, and cellular energy
✅ TECAR Therapy – Deep thermal treatment for faster muscle recovery, joint pain relief, and mobility improvement

🎓Why This Course?

Stay ahead with technology development.
Learn how to integrate these modalities into your clinical practice.
Gain hands-on understanding of when and how to apply each treatment safely and effectively.

Open to Sports Massage Therapists at Level 4 or above, Sports Therapists, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Physiotherapists and Rehabilitators

📅 Course Date: 17th July 2025 (09:30 - 17:00)

To book your place or find out more 👉 https://coreelements.uk.com/electrotherapy-extension-course/

03/07/2025

✨Behind the scenes on day 2 of our accredited , Advanced short course at our training centre in .

⚡️Day 2 of this course covers Electro-Needling which is great for a range if conditions, including, but not limited to:
joint pain,
nerve pain,
muscular hypertonicity,
neurological conditions and more.

I always love delivering this course as face to face training, as the group get to feel the benefits, whilst learning how to use the modality within their clinical work 👌.

📍This course is available in Swindon and Liverpool.

🔗 Link to course page - https://coreelements.uk.com/advanced-dry-needling/

🎓 Suitable for Sports Massage Therapists at Level 4 and above, along with Sports Therapists, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Physiotherapists, Physical Therapists etc.

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Core Elements Training - Our Story

Dawn Morse of Core Elements provides Sports Massage Therapy and Sports Therapy modality based courses within Swindon, Wiltshire.

Core Elements Training provides accredited Level 3, Level 4 and Level 5 qualifications in Sports Massage Therapy and Clinical Therapy along with short courses in Electrotherapy, Manual therapy, Dry Needling and Rehabilitation, and day courses in Dry Cupping Therapy, Sports Taping and Strapping and Kinesiology Taping.

Some of our Short courses and CPD day courses are available in Swindon, Liverpool, Tyne and Wear, Exeter and Dublin. Yoga CPD workshops such as Anatomy for Yoga, The Science of Stretching and Yoga Science and Back Pain are provided throughout the year in Swindon. Core Elements also offer regular Hot Yoga classes in Swindon and Malmesbury, and occasional Yoga Day Retreats in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Training courses, workshops and classes are delivered by Dawn Morse MSc, who is the founder of Core Elements. Dawn was a Sports Science and Therapy Lecturer for the University of Bath Sports Therapy degree for 8 years and is now an Associate Lecturer for the Open University.

Articles from by Dawn Morse have also been featured in International Therapist and Massage World Magazine, Men’s Running Magazine and Om Yoga and Lifestyle magazine. Dawn is also a panel expert on the Q & A panel for Women’s Running Magazine.