Practical Workshop & Online Course with sma member susan findlay

Here are some highlights about what you will take away from attending the cancer massage course:

This course leads to a fully accredited qualification as a Certified Oncology Massage Therapist.  It focuses on developing your understanding of common conditions of cancer and how this will influence your work. It will include how to modify your massage techniques along with learning some new ones specific to a variety of cancer conditions. Included in this field of work is home care advice that will have a positive impact and support your manual therapy.

You will be given the opportunity to put into practice what you have learnt on the cancer massage course within real life conditions, providing a massage session that takes your clients through the assessment, planning and application process along with suitable home care suggestions.

Here's how it works:

• The Online-Only Oncology Massage course teaches you all the technical information and needs to be completed if you plan to go onto the following course days, but it is offered as a stand-alone course.
• Day 1 Practical Oncology Massage -
  This will teach you how to modify your manual therapy based on real life case studies for common cancer conditions.
• Day 2 Practical Oncology Massage -
  The day starts off with developing further your manual techniques which considers more advanced work. You will have an opportunity to experience an introduction to scar work. Ideally an afternoon clinic will be offered but this is dependent on numbers of volunteers; either way further exploration of case studies will be incorporated into your learning.
• Day 3 Practical Oncology Massage -
  This focuses on advancing your soft tissue skills, providing home care suggestions specific to your cancer clients and covering rehabilitation principles. Included in the day is a your final clinical cancer massage workshop which will integrate all that you have learnt with end of day case study discussions.
• Assessment for Certification is included in the Day 3 afternoon clinic

How to apply

There are different options for booking and a choice of how many of the days you would like to complete, i.e. you can choose to just complete the online course and / or add on one of the practical days.

Full details of the course and booking instructions can be found by clicking here