Massage: Healing touch therapy

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL SOMEONE THAT HAVE A CANCER? HELP THEM EASE THE PAIN. MASSAGE: HEALING TOUCH THERAPY Massage is an old 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. BENEFITS OF MASSAGE 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. 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. IS IT SAFE? ? 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. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 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. 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. Sources: www.myohealingmassage.com