ScarWork 2: Integrating Scar Tissue into the Fascial Web

A 2-Day In-person Course for Hands-on Healthcare Providers

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Course Description:

ScarWork 2 is intended for students who successfully completed the original course, ScarWork: Integrating Scar Tissue into the Fascial Web, and have been practicing ScarWork regularly. ScarWork 2 presents 20 new techniques applicable to specific scars/tissue qualities and also reviews the 20 techniques covered in the original ScarWork course. 

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Scars can often be symptomatic and may contribute to limited range of motion, pain, discomfort, tightness, and nerve-associated sensations at the site of the scar as well as in the tissues surrounding a scar. ScarWork is a gentle and effective manual therapy that can be seamlessly incorporated into client sessions to resolve symptomatic scar tissue. The in-person course offers hands-on learning and application of ScarWork techniques to ensure practitioners leave the course with skills to implement immediately into their practice. This course is appropriate for hands-on healthcare providers working with clients who have surgical scars, naturally-occurring scars, or burn scars, regardless of the scar age. ScarWork often provides relief for those with Dupuytren contracture as well.

 

ScarWork was created by Sharon Wheeler in the early 1970s. Today, she travels the world sharing her discoveries and has approved practitioners in multiple countries to teach ScarWork. You can learn more about Sharon and her work at sharonwheeler.com.

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Course Objectives:

• Identify the ScarWork techniques applicable to different scar/tissue qualities

• Assess the interconnectedness of the entire fascial web in addition to the local and far-reaching effects of scar formation via a hands-on experiential learning activity

• Practice ScarWork techniques individually on pillow/towel models

• Assess the scar texture, appearance, and body-wide effects via tactile and visual observation before and after ScarWork on a scar model volunteer from the community

• Perform ScarWork techniques on various scar model volunteers from the community in two 2-hour instructor-supervised clinics

• Explain the client’s/patient’s responsibilities while receiving ScarWork

• Develop tactile acuity working with different fascial layers

• Apply instructor feedback (hands-on, verbal, and visual) to fine-tune application of the ScarWork techniques

• List how the client/patient should care for themselves after receiving ScarWork

• List the resources available to support your ScarWork practice

• Support classmates by participating in sharing experiences, insights, and perspectives

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Continuing Education Credits​

• 14 CE hours with the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB)​

 

*Please inquire as to whether CEUs can be approved by the relevant board in your state*

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​Course Dates:

See the class dates page.

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​Attendance:

Students must attend the entire class to receive a certificate of completion for the full amount of continuing education credits.

 

Refund/Cancellation:

A full refund will be issued (minus a $100 admin fee) if the student cancels 30 or more days prior to the course start date. After, full tuition is forfeited.

 

In the case of illness or a true emergency, arrangements may be made to transfer the registration to a future class or refund a portion of the registration fee if the spot can be filled. This determination will be made on a case-by-case basis and is not guaranteed.​

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