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Massage: Healing Touch Therapy “Help them ease the pain.” To a cancer patient, having a massage is not only to improve the physical symptoms that they experience but some cancer patient after having a massage they feel that they are whole again. 2016 Myohealing www.myohealingmassage.com 1/27/2016

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Massage: Healing Touch Therapy “Help them ease the pain.”

To a cancer patient, having a massage is not only to improve the

physical symptoms that they experience but some cancer patient

after having a massage they feel that they are whole again.

2016

Myohealing www.myohealingmassage.com

1/27/2016

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Massage is an old technique of manipulating soft tissues and

muscles of the body using your hands, fingers and your fists. Massage

doesn’t treat cancer but it can help reduce the side effects of the

treatments like chemotherapy and improve the quality of life of the

person. To a cancer patient, having a massage is not only to improve the

physical symptoms that they experience but some cancer patient after

having a massage they feel that they are whole again. Massage helps

them relax, that way massage helps them share feelings, have hope and

being positive about their body.

In general, the benefits of massage are to have a deep

relaxation, improve sleep, and reduce stress, increase alertness and

mental clarity and many more. For Cancer patients, who undergo

radiation or chemotherapy, massage reduced anxiety in advance of and

during treatment, reduced post-treatment fatigue. It also improved

peripheral neuropathy. To patients who have a Following Surgery,

patients may experience the reduced anxiety in advance of surgery ,

easier recovery from anesthesia, reduced post-surgical pain ,improved

mobility and appearance of surgical scars ,reduced swelling and easier

adaptation to implants and expanders.

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Having a massage is safe to a cancer patient it is given to patient

with cancer with stage 1 to 4. The treatment area should not be touch

to avoid pressure on the affected area. There are many researches

about massage and its goodness to cancer patient’s body. Like this

systematic review on a massage for relieving the cancer symptoms it

shows that massage reduce anxiety, nausea, pain, fatigue, depression

and other stress hormone.

Do you have a special someone that has a cancer? Help them ease the

pain by booking them for a massage in Myohealing.