Offering Healthy-Steps programs provides you the ability to improve the lives of people in your community while enhancing your current program offerings and creating an additional revenue stream. Instructor certification includes technical training, as well as access to marketing resources and how-to guides, promotional materials and licensed merchandise. As a Healthy-Steps instructor, you'll also have access to a world-wide network of Healthy-Steps instructors, providing each other with guidance, expertise and encouragement. Healthy-Steps Certification training program is offered as an intensive two or three day workshop. In this Certification Workshop you will learn:
How to lead the Healthy-Steps therapeutic exercise program
How to instruct and teach your clients
How to use seated exercise and why
The benefits of individual exercises and which muscles are used during each section of the program
The proper role of exercise for your client's physical and emotional well-being
How to regain and maintain Range of Motion through exercise
Methods to relieve frozen shoulder and gently stretch scar tissue
Understanding Lymphedema - Signs of Lymphedema, what to do, and who to refer to.
Exercises that work for Lymphedema and open your lymphatic system
Where you need to "stay in the box" and where you can be creative and expand the program
The program's history
Resist-a-Bands and exercises to do (and not to do)
Do's and don'ts of Healthy-Steps
When should your client begin and how to alter program as needed
Music and it's impact on recovery
How to make Healthy-Steps a success for you, your clients and your center