Expert Garment Fitter

With Angela Vollmer, Orthopedic technician and world – renowned garment fitting expert from Germany.  Sponsored by BSN Medical

This is the course many therapists have been requesting.  Learn all the skills and tricks from an expert so that you too can become a highly skilled garment fitter.  The two day course will equip you and certify you, through BSN medical to fit garments accurately for patients with lymphedema.   This is the first course of its kind in North America and will be limited to 14 participants. Register now to secure your place.

Who this course is designed for:
 Garment fitters
 Lymphedema therapists / CDT therapists
 Health care professionals experienced with patients with lymphedema

Goals
• Creation of expert garment fitters in North America
• Opportunities to diversify knowledge
• Greater fitter and customer satisfaction
• Greater patient compliance
• Less recall of product

What you will learn in this course:
 Different types of edema and different types of compression classes
 Anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of lymphedema
 Types of garments and their application
 Fitting for upper and lower extremity
 Problem solving for difficult cases
 Practice measuring
 Product returns
 Measuring for actual patients
 Measuring  and fitting on actual patients
 Follow up with garments supplied to patients (BSN)

Certification
An Expert Garment-Fitter certificate will be provided by BSN medical at the completion of this course.

CE credit
CMT of BC : 14 PE/A2 credits