Massage Therapy for Post-Operative Pain

Course overview

When you complete this course you will be able to: •Understand the role massage therapy can play in improving patient outcomes for post-operative patients. •Describe how post-operative pain affects healing from surgeries. •Identify pain-relieving medications, their methods of administration, and side effects. •Describe how massage therapy can relieve post-operative pain and the contraindications for massage therapy. •Define the hospital setting for massage therapists.