Complete instructions can be obtained from a physician, nurse or Mammatech staff member. Learning this method typically takes about an hour. Here is the basic procedure. Silicon breast models are used to train the women. They learn to touch the models to distinguish between normal breast tissues fatty, knotty and cystic breast masses and abnormal lumps.
Women memorize a vertical pattern of examining every possible inch of their breast tissue.
On her back, the woman bends her knees over to one side. The opposite hand is placed, palm up, on the forehead. Starting from the top of the armpit, the woman moves her middle three fingers in small circles. She checks up and down in overlapping vertical strips across to the nipple. When she reaches the nipple, she keeps her fingers there and rolls flat on to her back.