Harkness Center Saturday Series: Fundamentals of Fascial Release Tools

Harkness Center for Dance Injuries proudly offers in-person and virtual Harkness Center Saturday Series workshops for the dance community.

MAY 2025 WORKSHOP

Topic: Fundamentals of Fascial Release Tools

When: Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

Format: IN PERSON

Description: Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) is a skilled intervention that includes the use of specialized tools that manipulate the skin, myofascia, muscles, and tendons with various techniques. In this hands-on Saturday Series, you will explore how to properly and safely implement the use of stainless-steel instruments and cups by learning and practicing guidelines and techniques to help facilitate pain reduction, improve tissue function and range of motion, and promote faster tissue healing.

Participants are strongly encouraged, but not required, to bring their own instruments (e.g. steel, gua cha, cups, etc.). For questions on obtaining these, please email . Participants are strongly encouraged to wear comfortable and flexible clothing.

Instructor: Bridgette Saba, DAT, holds a bachelor’s degree in athletic training with double minors in theater and dance from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, a performing arts medicine master’s certificate from Shenandoah University, and a doctorate in athletic training from Moravian University. She is also a certified Graston Technique specialist. Prior to joining the Harkness Center for Dance Injury team, Dr. Whitermore worked at Moravian University as a graduate teaching assistant for the master of athletic training program and practiced as an athletic trainer working with dancers, musicians, and cheer athletes.

Saturday Series workshops are led by our clinical staff and feature various topics on dancer wellness and injury prevention. All members of the dance community are welcome (dancers under age 16 are strongly encouraged to come with a parent/guardian*). Please note whether format is in-person or virtual.

*We strongly encourage participants under 16 years of age to attend with a parent/guardian. If a parent/guardian plans to drop off a minor, please make sure you have corresponded with the Harkness Center in advance.

Liability waiver: for workshops that include movement, participants will be required to sign a liability waiver.

Refund policy: We cannot provide refunds after the event has taken place.

Questions: Contact Kristen Stevens, program manager, [email protected]

About the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries: NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (www.DanceInjury.org) is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of dance professionals by providing breakthrough approaches to injury prevention, medical treatment, education and training, and research. Founded in 1989 through a partnership between the Harkness Foundation for Dance and the Hospital for Joint Diseases (now NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital), the Harkness Center provides world-class clinical care for dancers of all types and levels. The scientific foundation for this expert care comes from research into understanding the dancer’s body in motion coupled with workplace requirements. The Harkness Center’s evidence-based practice has produced globally accepted approaches to the recognition, treatment, and prevention of dance injuries.

In addition to caring for injuries, an integral part of the Harkness Center’s mission is providing education. For the dance community, Harkness offers injury prevention workshops, online courses, and screenings, including its long-running, free Injury Prevention Assessment (IPA) program. For fellow dance medicine professionals, Harkness is actively engaged in sharing clinical best practices through academic training with live and online continuing education courses. Since 2015, Harkness Center has offered DanceMedU, its digital learning platform (www.DanceMedU.org), which now offers over 20 lectures on dance medicine and dancer health.

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