Mastectomy Massage - 6/9-10/2012

Mastectomy Massage

Presenter: Cheryl Chapman

Hours:  16 NCTMB Approved

Early Registration Fee: $275

         (if paid 14 days in advance of workshop)

Registration Fee: $295

$100 deposit required to register.

Required Deposit:  $100 Deposit is required to register.

Times: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM   

Dates: 6/9-10/2012

A prerequisite is:

"Touch, Bodywork & Massage - Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Illness"

or other professional training in Oncology massage.

• Lymph edema information: How to recognize lymph edema, how to treat the client with  lymph edema
• A knowledge of the various surgeries: augmentation, explantation, implants, and reduction
• Information on male breast cancer
• Appropriate and effective massage techniques, and hands-on practice
• Positioning, body mechanics, and draping for a chair, side-lying and table
• Demonstration of new techniques to complement existing therapeutic modalities
• Pre-Mastectomy massage guidelines
• Marketing strategies and legal issues necessary to build and maintain a practice
• Skills needed to teach clients self-care techniques including: massage, range of motion, exercise and stretching
• Self-care techniques for therapists
• Broad sample of resources available to the massage therapist and client

The mastectomy training offers credit for 16 clock hours or 16 units for AMTA and NCBTMB. A manual is provided and a certification of completion is awarded. All aspects of lymph edema are explored and discussed. This class is 50% HANDS-ON

To register for this workshop call 800-860-1114 and place your deposit on a charge card or mail a check for the required deposit to:

Pittsburgh School of Massage Therapy
3600 Laketon Road
Pittsburgh, PA  15235

Include check made payable to "Pittsburgh School of Massage Therapy", your name, address, email address, phone, name of the workshop and workshop dates. We will send you a confirmation in the mail.  If you are traveling by plane, please confirm the workshop with the school before buying your ticket.  Occasionally we do have to cancel workshops due to low enrollment.  If a workshop is cancelled for any reason our liability is limited to a return of the deposit paid.  If you cancel your participation in a workshop within 21 days of the workshop, there will be no refund if the deposit paid.  Cancelation earlier than 21 days before the workshop will incur a $25 processing fee.  The balance of your deposit will be refunded.