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Scar Therapy Courses for Manual Therapists

Developed by Emma Holly, RESTORE Scar therapy courses have been taught around the globe with 100's of 5* reviews. Enrol today and learn scar massage to help clients with pain, limited range of movement and support recovery with a holistic approach.

Join our Scar Therapy Practitioner and learn scar massage, silicone cupping for scars to be able to treat any scar, after any injury or surgery (including C-Section and oncology scars).

The C-Section Scar Specialist and Oncology Scar Specialist include the same scar massage techniques but are more specific to complications in these specialist areas. There are additional practical skills to compliment scar massage included in the Restore specialist courses.

Client 2+ years post breast cancer surgery before and after a single Restore Therapy treatment.
Client 2+ years post breast cancer surgery before and after a single Restore Therapy treatment.
Learn how scars are created and understand scar healing stages

Train Online From Anywhere in the World

Learn online with our advanced theory course Understanding Scars. Understanding scars includes a range of information on common injury and surgery and expert interviews. Clinical considerations are covered, but not hands-on techniques.


Emma's scar clinic is in London's medical centre, Harley Street, where she continues to work in-clinic with clients after surgery or injury. With extensive knowledge and hands-on experience, she has presented on scar massage at global conferences to surgeons and medical experts as well as physiotherapists, lymphoedema therapists, massage therapists and other manual therapy professionals.

Ways Restore therapy scar training can help you and your your clients

Our training courses will equip you to understand who will suffer from scars and adhesions, what causes scar complications, and how you should adjust your therapy or movement approach.

Improve Scars

We teach you how scar massage and home-care advice can help improve old and new scar tissue to get better physical and cosmetic results.

Reduce Sensitivity, Pain and Itching

Stimulation of the area can normalise sensitivity, and use scar creams, oils, silicone or gels can help itchy scars.

Gain Better Movement

By encouraging mobility between the layers of skin, fascia and muscle, range and ease of movement can improve.

Scar Tissue and Fascia

Learn about scar tissue and adhesions to appreciate the impact scars have via our fascial system. Scar massage can allow you to treat the cause - not the symptoms.

Stimulate Healing

Scar massage is commonly recommended by surgeons because it will promote scar healing and may minimise longer term complications, enrol today and support recovery.

Support Emotional Wellbeing

Therapeutic and holistic, scar massage is a powerful way to help your client accept their scars.

Don’t miss out, enrol today and learn RESTORE scar therapy

Blended In-person and online training

Restore Therapy provides both online and in-person scar therapy training courses. Our practical courses are run throughout the year at locations around the UK. Theory is covered via the online platform in advance of your hands-on days to maximise absorption of the knowledge in smaller bite-size chunks and to minimise time away from your clinic. After the hands-on days you can return online for more skills development. Private courses can be organised onsite for anyone looking to train a team of therapy professionals within the UK or around the globe. Contact us to discuss your training requirements. Our online courses offer on-demand access to advanced scar theory.

demonstrating hands on scar therapy on a leg surgery scar

Essential For Therapists and Exercise Professionals

Every year thousands of people undergo surgery or have serious accidents leaving them with scar tissue and adhesions. Our 5* rated online course in scar therapy advanced theory will deepen your understanding and provide in-depth knowledge and recommendations for working with scars. Learn the impact scars can have on our fascial system, how scar tissue may influence biotensegrity when the scar tissue – or related compensation patterns – create discomfort locally to the injury site, or elsewhere in the body.

Trusted scar training provider

Restore Therapy have provided scar tissue courses internationally in Europe and worldwide for massage, physiotherapy and lymphoedema therapists. We have been integral in delivering hands-on scar massage skills to NHS and cancer charities in UK. We have taught at leading cancer centres such as The Christie NHS Foundation, Royal Marsden Trust, Barts Foundation and to physiotherapists from Macmillan and Marie Curie.

Within professional sport, Restore Therapy have delivered training to Saracens Rugby physiotherapy and soft tissue therapists, premier league football sports therapists and the British Athletics elite physiotherapy team.

Restore Scar therapy has trained therapists in every setting and from every kind of background - from massage and sports therapy, to osteopathy, women's health to musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapists or people working in oncology - all will come across scar tissue and can benefit from adding the RESTORE scar therapy method to their skills.

logos of people we've trained inclusing marie cure, macmillan The Christie NHS foundation trust, Barts Health NHS trust, The Royal Marsden NHS trust, Bristish atheletics and saracens physiotherapists