A 1-day Advanced Course:

Caring for Clients with Cancer; Advanced Seminar
8.0 CE Hours

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The growth of oncology massage therapy brings rewards and challenges for massage therapists.

Clients are going through new treatments, more complex treatment combinations, and long-term management of cancer as chronic disease.

In these modules we address four important topics in more depth.

Module 1, Cases and Practical Issues
After presenting cases, therapists identify key intake questions and possible hands-on approaches, listing contraindications and cautions for each case. In this module, appropriate follow-up intake questions are listed, and how answers might require adjustments in the massage plan.

Module 2, Adaptations to the Hospital Setting  
Discussion of common issues for massage therapists in the hospital environment and resources to address them, with particular attention to massage protocols. (This module is clinical—adapting massage protocols to acute care—it does not address the nuts and bolts of developing a hospital-based program.)

Module 3, Research Update
A lively overview of the growing evidence on massage and cancer and guidelines for using it in marketing. Learn about research results published since your 3-Day Intensive training—and ongoing research projects to keep an eye on.

Module 4, Building a Practice in Oncology Massage  
We highlight great strategies for launching and growing an oncology massage business, with special attention to making connections with people, spreading the word, and marketing. 

Leave this course inspired—with good ideas, pages of resources, references, and the support of a classroom of like-minded professionals.

Differences between Advanced Seminars and the 3-Day Intensive Course

Massage therapists say the 3-Day Intensive course gives them everything they need to work confidently and joyfully with people with cancer. But many are eager for more time and material.

This advanced course was developed for them.

While you have the clinic experience of a case in the 3-Day Intensive course, there is more time for study of various cases in Module 1.

The 3-Day Intensive course prepares you with principles to apply to the hospital setting, but Module 2 gives you more examples of modifications for acute care.

The 3-Day Intensive course gives you an overview of research and in-class practice evaluating some studies; Module 3 gives you even more on current research and how to use it in marketing your work.

Module 4 of the Advanced Seminar addresses marketing and promotion, with ideas for focusing on your target market.

Prerequisite

Caring for Clients with Cancer 3-Day Intensive course.
This advanced seminar is also open to those who have studied with Cheryl Chapman, Gayle MacDonald, Memorial Sloan-Kettering or Debra Curties.

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What Massage Therapists say about 1-Day Advanced Seminar

"Excellent!  Targeted, concise, and manageable within the time frame given."
     Dina Weiss, Silver Spring, MD

"Superb, detailed, energetic presentation!"
      Dinah Barlow, Cambridge, MA

"Helped me to be articulate in marketing myself."
      Leslie Diamond, Annapolis, MD

"I thoroughly enjoyed the learning atmosphere."
      Nancy Keeney Smith, Gainesville, FL

"Wonderful teaching model - very interactive!"
      -Andrea Schlenkermann, Cleveland, OH

Course Approvals

Tracy Walton is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as an approved provider, #283404-00.

Tracy Walton is approved by the Florida Board of Massage Therapy, provider # 50-3354.