Introduction To Pediatric Oncology Massage

Course overview

This course is an introduction into the considerations that will help you succeed when providing massage therapy to children with cancer and their families. To understand each modality to its fullest, massage therapists must take many more class hours than those required just to graduate from massage therapy school. Even more hours are required when providing massage therapy for children with cancer. In this course you will learn the need for and value of extra training in order to serve pediatric clients with cancer. This will include a general understanding of how pediatric cancer requires different skills than those used when treating adults and of the pediatric cancers and cancer treatment. When you finish this course you will be able to: * Understand the value of the additional study required to provide massage therapy for pediatric clients with cancer. * Understand the importance of communicating with the healthcare team for pediatric clients with cancer. * Describe two types of cancer that account for over 50% of childhood cancers. * Describe when and what kind of additional training is needed to treat pediatric clients with cancer. * List five systemic and five local conditions where massage therapy is contraindicated in pediatric clients with cancer. * List five precautions and special considerations that require research before treating a pediatric client with cancer. * Define the five Ps that are key to successful treatment of pediatric clients with cancer.