CPE: 6 CPE points

Items to Bring: A massage table and towels.

To ensure the success of this seminar, it is a requirement that you bring above items to the event. If you do not have a massage table, please arrange table hire via https://www.firm-n-fold.com.au/shop-online/hire-equipment or company of your choice.

If you live in a regional area or have any concerns regarding bringing a massage table to the event, please email us at events@atms.com.au

Taping for Oedema Reduction and Scar Management

Tape has become an important tool in elite sports training and management of skeletal muscular disorders. However standard methods of tape application are not suitable for acute and chronic oedema.

Lymph taping is a specialist area of kinesiology taping that can be applied to people with acute oedema after injury or surgery, and for affected by or at risk of cancer-related lymphoedema. Case- based demonstrations of lymph taping will be used to identify the potential benefits of lymph taping for affect persons and application of lymph tapes for acute oedema and scar therapy will be taught.

This course aims to:

• Describe the evolution of Lymph Taping

• Review basic lymphology in relation to the physiological actions of Lymph Taping

• Describe the properties of various kinesiology tapes and taping styles

• Outline the role of lymph taping in acute oedema management including appropriate styles of taping

• Outline the role of lymph taping in chronic oedema management including appropriate styles of taping

• Discuss the role of kinesiology taping in scar recovery and reduction

• Provide an overview of the role of specialist lymph taping practitioners and where to find them

Presenter: Jan Douglass

Jan has practised and taught manual body therapies since 1986 including developing and delivering health science subjects for students of massage therapy, occupational therapy and naturopathy.

Since becoming a Dr Vodder Therapist in 1997 Jan has specialised in MLD & CDT and in 2002 became an Accredited Practical Instructor with the Dr Vodder School. In 2017 Jan was accredited as a Lymph Taping Instructor with Medical Taping Concept.

Jan’s scope of experience includes eight years as senior lymphoedema therapist at Flinders Medical Centre Breast Oncology Clinic and as trial co-ordinator at Flinders University Lymphoedema Research Unit. Jan has presented at numerous conferences and seminars nationally and internationally.

She completed her Honours Thesis on a yoga program for women with arm lymphoedema after breast cancer and wrote her PhD thesis on early detection of covert lymphatic dysfunction in young people infected with lymphatic filariasis in Myanmar.

Jan is now a consultant with the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK where she provides advice and training in morbidity management in the global program to eliminate lymphatic filariasis.

Cancellation:If it is deemed that a seminar is not viable, it may be postponed or cancelled by ATMS.

Please note that it is not permissible to bring children to ATMS seminars.