The Bodywork Education Project Presents
Scar Management Certification Training
w/ Nancy Keeney Smith, LCMT
September 16-18, 2011
Watertown, MA

Nancy’s full 100 hour Certification Program will be taught in three phases, each building on the other to give the therapist a complete therapeutic picture of working with traumatic, matured scarring. 

Phase One: Three 8 Hour CE Workshops (24 NCBTMB Approved CE Hours)

1. THE SKIN-Scar Management Techniques and Assessment
   Learn to access types of scars and techniques best suited for optimum release. We discuss the latest research on massage and scarring and how traumatic scarring forms.
2. Scar Management-The Role of the Lymph and Nervous System
   Two systems that play a vital role in recovery and continued healing with traumatic scarring. This class will take an in-depth look at what effects scar tissue has on both systems and assessment tools for long term recovery.
3. Scar Management-Trauma, Pain and Protocol
   The last class in Phase One pulls all the information together for the therapist to work with the client’s body, mind and tissue. We explore how the tissue holds trauma and its effects on the healing process. The role that pain plays in the recovery for you and for the client.  Then we define the protocol best suited for the client’s long term recovery. This class ends with a round robin clinic made up of volunteers with different types of scarring.

All participants will take away knowledge of scar formation, techniques best suited for long term recovery and the latest research on the benefits of massage therapy in scar management. 

Classes limited to 16 participants.

DATE

September 16-18, 2011
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM

COURSE LOCATION

Center for BodyMind Management
118 Main Street, 2nd Floor
Watertown, MA

COST

$395

REGISTER NOW

For more information about this class contact Lou Benson at 617-504-6912 or .

THIS CLASS IS FULL, please email Lou ( ) to be added to the waitlist.

CERTIFICATION Phase Two: Active Isolated Stretching for Scars is taught by Raquel Torres, BS, LMT, PT. 
Dates TBA

CERTIFICATION Phase Three: Scar Research and Protocol-Putting it all Together & Scar Management Clinic with Nancy Keeney Smith.  Final Scar Management Certification is dependent upon completion of a research project within six months of the final class of Phase Three. 
Dates TBA

ABOUT NANCY KEENEY SMITH, LCMT

Nancy Keeney Smith is a Board Certified Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Lymph Drainage Therapist, and a Florida and NCTMB Provider of Scar Management Workshops. Nancy’s Working with Matured Scar Tissue Workshops has been taught internationally to massage school students, LMT’s, PT’s and OT’s.  Nancy is a member of the Associate Research Team at the Florida School of Massage in Gainesville, Florida, founder and Director of The Happy Plus Foundation, 3rd Vice-President of the AMTA Florida Chapter, member of the American Burn Association, the National Lymphedema Association and the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors.

2005 Pioneered therapeutic massage sessions with pediatric burn survivors at Camp Amigo
2006 Project Leader of a Massage Therapy Foundation Grant funded pilot program for pediatric burn scars and massage therapy
2005 to present Program Leader for TALK Project-massage therapy for pediatric burn survivors
2008 Research paper published-Range of Motion Improves After Massage in Children With Burns: A Pilot Study
2010 MTIF funds research on how massage and active isolated stretching effects ROM on scar tissue
2011 Partnering with the Burn Unit at Shand’s Hospital at the University of Florida research project on therapeutic massage with adult burn survivors

Thank you for your interest in The Bodywork Education Project. We look forward to bringing you a first rate educational experience.  Please feel free to email us at if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns.