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Save Your Hands! Training and Consulting Services

Workshops     Certified Instructor Training     Seminars/Lectures     Ergonomics Consulting     School Programs

Save Your Hands! offers a full range of injury prevention and ergonomics services in the U.S., Canada and worldwide to practitioners, businesses that hire manual therapists, and schools that train them. Our team of experienced ergonomics and injury prevention specialists provides workshops, seminars, instructor training, ergonomics consulting and turn-key injury prevention solutions using the proven methods and techniques described in the Save Your Hands! book. Contact us at 877-424-0994 or info@saveyourhands.com for more information.

Workshops
Save Your Hands! Workshops provide practical information and useful techniques to help manual healthcare students and professionals prevent musculoskeletal injury, reduce fatigue and discomfort, and extend their careers. Attendees learn to reduce the physical demands of their work on their own bodies while still providing a thorough hands-on treatment to their clients.

Combining lecture and discussion with plenty of hands-on practice, the workshops are taught in an informal style that encourages active participation. Attendees come away from the workshop with an excellent overview of ergonomics and injury prevention principles, and a self-care action plan including changes they will make to their practice based on what they have learned.

Save Your Hands! Workshops are currently available for massage therapists and bodyworkers. Continuing education credit will be available soon. Workshops for other manual healthcare professionals are in development.

Certified Save Your Hands! Instructor Training
Qualified massage therapists can attend special training to become Certified Save Your Hands! Instructors and teach Save Your Hands! Workshops to massage therapy professionals and students. With the best known name in injury prevention for manual therapists behind you, you will be able to help others in your profession protect themselves from injury while obtaining a valuable credential and creating a new source of income for yourself. Continuing education credits will be available for this training.

Seminars, Lectures and Roundtables
The authors of Save Your Hands! are available to speak at meetings and conferences of professional associations, schools or businesses about all aspects of injury prevention and ergonomics for manual therapists. Seminars, lectures and informal talks or roundtable discussions can be customized as needed. Topics include injury prevention and ergonomics for the individual practitioner, best practices for schools, clinics and spas, and creation of standards for the profession as a whole.

Ergonomics Consulting & Training
Manual therapists can only work optimally in an environment that is designed for their comfort and safety, and with a comprehensive program in place to help them prevent injury. Save Your Hands! Ergonomics Consulting specializes in optimizing the work environment for manual therapists and implementing effective programs to protect hands-on practitioners from work-related injury.

Our trained ergonomics specialists understand the issues and challenges present in settings where manual therapists work and train, and can help you create a workplace that provides comfort and safety for therapists while providing the best possible client experience. In fact, we are the only ergonomics consulting service in North America that works exclusively with manual therapists and the businesses that employ them. 

Our clients include:

• clinics/hospitals

• group practices

• spas (day spas, resort spas, and medical spas)

• schools/professional training programs for massage therapists and bodyworkers, physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, hand therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, nurses, physicians, and more.

We work closely with these clients to help them find cost-effective solutions to:

• help decrease workers’ compensation claims and payment of wages during absence (and cost of replacement workers) and administrative time to file paperwork

• minimize missed days of work due to symptoms or injury, and decrease in productivity due to symptoms

• enhance morale

• minimize suffering and disability among workers due to injury

• increase productivity

• avoid liability and associated legal costs

• reduce staff turnover. 

All of our consulting services can be customized to meet the specific needs of your organization.

Turn-Key Injury Prevention Solutions for Schools
A successful, career-long approach to injury prevention begins in school, when students acquire good work habits, healthy attitudes, and a thorough understanding of injury prevention. Save Your Hands! offers schools a multifaceted turn-key solution to help them minimize risk exposure for students and prepare them for the demanding profession that awaits them. We work closely with each school to develop an effective, self-sustaining, comprehensive injury prevention program. Using a train-the-trainer approach, we provide school staff with the necessary tools to integrate this program into their own, with follow-up and support available if needed and desired. Ergonomic evaluation of class and clinic workspaces is included to optimize students’ safety and comfort as they learn. 

Benefits for schools include:

• Lowering the incidence of symptoms and injury among students

• Increasing students’ satisfaction with the program

• Enhancing the image of the school for potential students.

This service is customized to meet the specific needs of your organization.

Contact Us
For more information on our ergonomics consulting, training and other services, please contact us at 1-800-220-9715 or by email to info@saveyourhands.com.