The Scar Therapy Practitioner is a blended course, providing first class education in manual treatment for clients after ANY surgery or injury that creates scar tissue, fibrosis or adhesions.
By the end of this 5 day online and in-person course, you will be able to:
- Offer a holistic scar therapy treatment to a client after any type of open or keyhole surgery or a client with scars from trauma injury (including C-Section, oncology, orthopaedic surgery, burn, hand trauma, cosmetic surgery and other specialties)
- Prescribe a client with self-scar care.
- Describe the key benefits of scar therapy for clients with problematic scar tissue, underlying fibrosis and internal adhesions after a surgery or injury.
- Apply gentle silicone cupping to scar tissue.
- Describe how kinesiology tape can influence scar tissue.
- Treat clients with facial surgery or injury using inter-oral techniques.
Attend in-person for three days
Learn online pre- and post- the in-person course (self-paced). There may be ‘condensed’ courses advertised for two longer days in-person.
In-depth tuition to leave you confident
This training should be beneficial for any professional therapist including sports and clinical massage therapist, physiotherapist, osteopath, acupuncture or any other bodywork practitioner…learn to combine new skills into your existing practice to help clients with old and new, bigger and smaller scars.
The course will take around five days:
- 3 to 4 hours (self-paced) online pre-course materials. Learn the basic theory on wound healing, scar classifications, treatment principles and more
- 3 days in-person. Master scar massage, silicone cupping for scars and inter-oral scar techniques
- 1.5 days post-course video demonstrations. Discover how to adapt treatments in different scenarios with different client examples from early scar treatment to progressing and adapting a treatment program.
Certification of completion is provided at your in-person training so you can commence client treatment. Plus a second certificate is issued as a pdf for the additional hours learning when all post-course materials are completed.
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Included in the online course:
- Considerations for clients after planned and emergency surgery, trauma including burn and non-burn trauma
- The benefits of topical scar products for common symptoms and healthy scar formation
- Video treatment demonstrations including: Keloid scar treatment, laparotomy, multiple abdominal and pelvic scars, trauma injury with facial scars, degloving leg injury with skin grafts, knee replacement, C-Section, keyhole carpal tunnel surgery, hip replacement, fracture repair and kidney surgery
- Downloadable course documents including PowerPoints, manual and reference sheets
- Marketing materials: Social media images, ‘What is Scar Therapy’ and ‘After your Scar Therapy’ pdf leaflets, pin badge, logo for your website
- 12 months enrolment online learning (options to extend)
Become a RESTORE Scar Therapy Practitioner from £699
Easy to fit around a busy schedule
- Self-paced online learning from two weeks before your in-person training is delivered in short easy to follow bite-size lessons (around 10 minutes each)
- We maximise your time, using the online training portal to teach theory in advance of your in-person learning
- In-person training time is focused on practical skills and interactive discussions
- Supervised class clinic sessions enable you to treat members of the public under expert guidance
- Blended learning avoids lecture style delivery
- Re-visit the online portal as your ongoing resource, providing technique and treatment video demonstrations
- Review or revise important theory online if needed
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Limited places available, contact us at admin@restoretherapy.co.uk if your preferred dates are fully booked and you wish to be added to the waiting list and bring the benefits of these skills to your clients.
Previous attendees comments from this course:
“Without a doubt the best CPD course I have ever done (in 8 years). Emma’s knowledge & expertise is clear & the training is pitched perfectly to engage & enthuse. Having the clinical sessions gives so much confidence & the results from the techniques we were shown was amazing.”
“Emma encouraged us all, from varied therapy backgrounds, to blend her techniques into our everyday practice which was such a refreshing approach. I will certainly train again with Emma & strongly encourage anyone interested in this fascinating area to attend this course.”
“Great training, it was good to get plenty of hands on experience to boost confidence in the skills.”
“Loved every second of this course. Claire (Stone) made it so much fun.”
This course is perfect for all physical therapists including clinical and sports massage therapists, physiotherapists, lymphoedema therapists, osteopaths and chiropractors working with people after injury recovery. If you are hospital based nurse specialist or occupation therapist who would be using scar massage within your clinical role, you will also find this course beneficial.
If you have not completed any scar training in the past, this is a great introduction to scar tissue complications and treatment. If you already have training in another method of scar tissue treatment (MSTR, ScarWork or other modality) this course will add new techniques and provide useful information to compliment your existing knowledge and skills.
On this general scar therapy course you learn techniques for various open and keyhole surgeries and scars after injuries including burns. During the supervised class clinics we invite in anyone who has had a surgery or trauma leaving a scar, so you may end up practicing on any kind of scar tissue during your course, dependant on the clinic bookings we receive.
Restore Therapy courses teach people from different professional therapy backgrounds. These includes massage, physiotherapy, lymphoedema, osteopathy and so on. Each professional therapy has different bodies offering accreditation for courses, so we have not chosen to affiliate with one singular body and exclude other professional forms from attending and completing training. This should not mean you are not eligible to gain CPD points for learning with Restore Therapy on this course. Simply submit your certification, if required, to provide proof of the learning hours.
You can attend this course with no previous knowledge of scar therapy. You can also attend this course if you have completed any of the other RESTORE Scar therapy courses or completed previous training in other scar therapy techniques to discover new material unique to this course.
You have 12 months access to the online portal, which will start two weeks before your in-person class regardless of how far in advance you booked your course. This is because we want everyone to have recently looked at the information before attending.
This is a CPD course and should be easy to add to your therapy insurance, usually without increasing the premium.
Emma Holly has developed the RESTORE scar therapy courses with a unique and holistic approach to supporting recovery. Based in the foundations of her background in massage therapy, combined with the knowledge and skills she has gained from attending training with a variety of scar therapy experts from around the world and five years as a teacher of Sharon Wheeler's ScarWork. The RESTORE techniques and approach seamlessly blends scar treatment into a holistic bodywork session, whether you use a medium - such as oil or wax - or you deliver your therapy dry.
The online learning in this course can be completed on a smart phone, laptop, desktop or tablet. We understand not everyone is set up or happy to complete online learning. It is possible to attend the course without subscribing to the online portal, but this creates significant additional administration for Restore Therapy.
The additional cost for anyone not wishing to use the online portal for the course is £40 per learner. This will include being sent personal copies of the pre-course reading, course manual and post course certification in email or hard copy by post within UK.
During your course there will be two 'supervised clinic' sessions. These are student clinics where members of the public with scars (we will try our best to fill the clinics with scars as a result of any surgery or injury. The supervised clinics enable you to have hands-on experience delivering scar techniques on people who require help after surgery. They are a way to provide 1:1 advice and skill development. These sessions enable you to feel much more confident in what to expect when a client books in for a treatment after the course.
Basic Booking Terms and Conditions
1. Non-refundable deposits of £100 are applied to all bookings.
2. Payment Terms: All courses must be paid in full 15 days before the online start date. If the course is not paid by this time, your enrolment will be withdrawn and the non-refundable £100 deposit will be withheld.
3. Cancellation:
If you cancel your booking prior to the online course, any payments made will be refunded as follows:
3.1 More than 30 days: Courses cancelled more than 30 days from the start of the online course, will receive a full refund excluding the non-refundable £100 deposit.
3.2 More than 7 days: Courses cancelled between 7 and 30 days from the start of the online course are eligible for ONE of the following:
• 50% refund less the £100 non-refundable deposit
• select an alternative therapist to take your place (additional administration cost of £50)
• consider a transfer as per 3.7.1
3.3 Less than 7 days: Courses cancelled less than 7 days from the start of the online course will not receive a refund. However, you can select an alternative therapist to take your place which will incur an additional administration cost of £50.
Refunds may take up to 30 days to process
Coronavirus and other personal circumstances: If you can not commence your course due to coronavirus or other personal circumstances, see above for the cancellation terms.
If you commence the in-person course and are then unable to complete all the in person training days due to illness or other personal circumstances, you may re-book to attend at a 50% reduction in the advertised course fee, the new booking must be made within 12 months of your original course dates.
Transfers: In the event that you wish to transfer to an alternative event or date, we will process your request, only when more than 21 days before the event is given in writing. Rescheduling to alternative course dates is permitted when more than one months notice is given, and will incur an administration fee of £50 for the administration.
Within one month of your in-person course commencing, rescheduling is not permitted for any reason, but you are welcome to send another therapist to take your place as an alternative. This incurs an additional cost of £50 for the administration of the name changes and changes to the online portal access.