Training Program

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In this Certification Workshop we will cover the following objectives:

Workshop Objectives

• Learn why we do certain exercises and the benefits of each
• Understand the role of proper exercise for your client's physical and emotional well being
• Proper and safe way to regain and maintain Range of Motion through exercise
• Relieve frozen shoulder and gently stretch scar tissue
• Discuss which muscles are used during each section of the program

• How to do The Lebed Method therapeutic exercise program
• Understanding Lymphedema
• Signs of Lymphedema and what to do, who to refer to.
• Exercises that work for Lymphedema and open your lymphatic system
• Understand the proper way to instruct and teach your clients
• How long, when, and how much do they do in a class
• Where you need to "stay in the box" and where you can be creative and expand the program
• The program's history
• How to run a class
• Therabands and exercises to do and not to do
• Do's and don'ts of Lebed Method
• When should your client begin and how to alter program
• Music and it's impact on recovery
• How to make The Lebed Method a success for you, your clients and your center
• How to be an educator during your classes
• When to refer to other health care professionals
• When to sit and do program and why

Program Benefits

The Lebed Method, Focus on Healing through Movement and Dance, is a therapeutic exercise program for women who have had any kind of breast surgery, node dissection, radiation, chemotherapy, Lymphedema, or who suffer with chronic fatigue. Two physicians and a dance movement specialist created this program to help women and men:

• Regain Range of Motion
• Increase flexibility in Frozen Shoulder
• Work with Balance issues both physically and emotionally
• Help reduce swelling from Lymphedema
• May help reduce the risk of Lymphedema

• Decrease depression
• Add to sexuality
• Increases femininity
• Promotion of positive self image and joy
• Weight stabilization
• is FUN and EASY to do
• No special physical abilities required

This program also benefits:

• Seniors

• Parkinson Disease
• M.S.
• Chronic Fatigue
• Arthritis
• All Cancers
• ...all chronic illness

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