SMAS - news) is proud to announce the certification of their largest class of practitioners to date from their Clinical Somatics Professional Training Program. The Graduating Class of 2007 will be the fourth class to graduate from Somatic Systems training facilities. This class' graduation year comes right on the heels of the beginning of the fifth training program, the Class of 2008, with an impressive increase in enrollment by 50%. In fact, all five classes have increased enrollment by approximately 50% over each previous class.
Somatic Systems, Inc. ("This is an exciting time for our students to become full-fledged practitioners in the field of Somatics," said Steven Aronstein, Chairman and CEO. "Our growth strategy consists of nationwide expansion of clinical facilities, staffed by the ever-growing population of students in our professional training program. These distinguished new Somatics professionals will help meet the growing demand for the Somatics system of pain management."
Somatic Systems' Clinical Somatics Professional Training Program™ is held in three semesters over 28 months. The course consists of 300 hours of supervised in-class education, as well as extensive interim professional support and fieldwork. In addition to instruction in the proprietary and revolutionary pain care techniques of Clinical Somatics, students are trained in kinesiology, anatomy, and neurophysiology, as well as musculoskeletal disorders of the trunk and vertebral column, shoulder joints, neck and jaw, arms, and the hip joints and legs.
Somatic Systems is pleased that ancillary product sales have increased significantly, and that tuition costs of $10,000 per student has brought substantial revenue into the Company. Training activity and student efforts continue to promote consumer awareness of Somatic Systems. In turn, Somatic Systems' sales force is increased to bring additional product revenues.
About Somatic Systems, Inc.
Somatic Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts. Somatics uses a technique called Clinical Somatics™. Somatics trains and certifies clinical practitioners on how to reeducate a client's muscles and recalibrate overused or injured muscles through a simple series of training sessions and prescribed at-home movements. The Clinical Somatics™ process uses a series of movements (lasting as little as five minutes a day) that lengthen muscles back to their natural, relaxed state.
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