Save Your Hands! CIPI Program Trains Massage Therapists to Teach Self-Care and Injury Prevention

COCONUT CREEK, FL, October 14, 2010

Save Your Hands! announces the affordable Certified Injury Prevention Instructor (CIPI) program, designed to provide CIPI instructors the skills, curriculum, and marketing savvy to perform successful independent Save Your Hands! workshops or to be hired as a trainer by spas, clinics, and schools.

The CIPI certification includes three online courses, including one by renowned massage marketing/business expert Cherie Sohnen-Moe on how instructors can market themselves as a CIPI. The certification process concludes with a live, hands-on weekend workshop. The first live workshops will be held in Corona, California (at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa) on November 13-14, 2010 and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 12-13, 2011. The entire certification provides 50 CEUs.

According to Lauriann Greene, CIPI Program Director and one of the foremost experts on injury prevention for manual therapists, "Seventy seven percent of manual therapists and bodyworkers report symptoms or injury as a result of their work. But these injuries can be prevented. There's a great need for more capable instructors to teach effective, proven methods and tips to prevent injury. By becoming certified, qualified massage therapists and other manual therapists can help other therapists to protect and prolong their careers while creating an additional income stream and saving their own hands."

CIPI graduates get ongoing support with tools from the saveyourhands.com web site, including an online directory that potential employers use to locate CIPIs, a forum to communicate with other CIPI's, and access to Save Your Hands! co-authors and expert instructors Lauriann Greene and Rick Goggins for questions and advice.

For schools, the program provides a way to train an instructor to incorporate effective injury prevention information into the school's core curriculum and continuing education program.

For spas and clinics, the CIPI program can provide an in-house injury prevention trainer to help reduce workers' comp claims, turnover and absenteeism among treatment staff.

Spas wanting to reduce their costs, schools interested in enhancing their curriculum and CE program, and manual therapists who value helping others and are excited about a new way to make money can find more information by contacting Save Your Hands! at 877-424-0994 (toll-free) or syhcourses@saveyourhands.com, or by visiting http://www.saveyourhands.com/certified-injury-prevention-instructor.

About Save Your Hands!

Save Your Hands! is the most trusted name in self-care, injury prevention and ergonomics for manual therapists. For over 15 years, their textbook, courses and workshops have helped over 100,000 manual therapists and bodyworkers learn proven methods to protect their health and prolong their careers.

The Save Your Hands! Workshop is based on The Save Your Hands! 2nd Edition textbook, co-authored by Lauriann Greene, CEAS and Richard W. Goggins, CPE, LMP, a certified professional ergonomist and massage therapist with over 17 years experience in occupational health and safety. Complimentary copies of Save Your Hands! are available for book review editors/writers.