Course Description
This course will prepare the student to provide comfort-oriented
massage to clients with cancer or for those who are in the
different stages of cancer; terminal, treatment, recovery
and survivor. The course will dispel the myth of cancer
as a contraindication to massage. Students will learn pressure
restrictions, site restrictions and position restrictions
when giving a massage and will provide the student with
an overview in modalities other than touch massage. It will
provide the student with a background in the psychology,
physiology and pathology of the cancer process and how to
work with the side effects and emotions as a result of treatment.
* Specific to the AOS Degree Program
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