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Certification In Manual Lymph Drainage

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Course overview

The careful balance between lecture topics and hands-on lessons in this course is ideally suited to serve as an introduction to the techniques and applications of the treatment known as Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD), which was developed by Emil Vodder, Ph.D. This 5-day, 40-hour course is focused to expose therapists, such as Massage Therapists, Cosmetologists, Estheticians, Physical Therapists and PTAs, Occupational Therapists and COTAs, Registered Nurses and LPNs to the basic MLD (Vodder) techniques and its application. This course will also assist you in developing treatment sequences for the management of edema of various geneses including post traumatic and post-surgical edema; as well as several pathologies such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, chronic pain reduction and others. During this course, the participants will learn to perform techniques that will assist patients and clients in general relaxation, health support and detoxification.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapist

40h Patient Related

Occupational Therapy Assistant

40h Patient Related

Florida Board of Massage Therapy

Massage Therapist

40h Relevant to and focus on massage therapy techniques (must be in the presence of instructor and include hands-on participation by the licensee and/or demonstration by the instructor)

Florida Board of Nursing

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

45h General

Licensed Practical Nurse

45h General

Registered Nurse

45h General

Florida Board of Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapist

40h General

Occupational Therapy Assistant

40h General

Georgia Board of Massage Therapy

Massage Therapist

40h Direct Hands-On Supervised Instruction - must contain at least 70% direct hands on placement or movement of the physical body

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