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Massage for the Client with Cancer

Massage for the Client with Cancer

By The Medical Massage Lady Training School

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Highlights

  • Delivered Online or In-Person

  • Advanced level

Description

This course is intended for anyone who has already undertaken a basic body massage course training:-

• and would like to start treating clients with cancer or who have had a history of cancer

• and would like to develop their knowledge of the anatomy and physiology behind cancer 


LEARNING OUTCOMES

• to develop your understanding of the role, skills and qualities of a successful massage therapist in relation to the oncology client

• to extend your knowledge of the anatomy and physiology involved in the development of cancer

• to understand the physical and mental health benefits of massage therapy for the oncology client

• to understand not only the effect of oncology massage on the client, but also how a client’s treatment will influence the massage treatment

• to develop an understanding of cancer in general and both the short term and long term effects of cancer treatments


The theory can be completed online and once this is done a practical session booked directly with me at sam@medicalmassagelady.com.


Accredited by the IGCT. 30 CPD points

Course Content

INTRODUCTION
  1. COURSE CONTENT
  2. LEGISLATION
  3. PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT
  4. LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES
CANCER:THE BASICS
  1. WHAT IS CANCER?
  2. NORMAL CELL CHARACTERISTICS
  3. THE CELL CYCLE
  4. GROWTH PATTERNS AND MALIGNANCY
  5. ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS
  6. ONCOLOGY AND THE FASCIA
  7. TREATMENT OPTIONS
ONCOLOGY MASSAGE
  1. THE OBJECTIVE OF ONCOLOGY MASSAGE & ASSOCIATED MYTHS
  2. STAGES OF CANCER
  3. HOMEOSTASIS & LYMPHATIC CIRCULATION
  4. BENEFITS OF ONCOLOGY MASSAGE
  5. CONTRAINDICATIONS & PRECAUTIONS
  6. MASSAGE DURING A RADIOTHERAPY/CHEMOTHERAPY CYCLE
  7. MASSAGE TECHNIQUES
  8. DOCTOR'S CONSENT
  9. BASIC ROUTINE:THE BACK
  10. BASIC ROUTINE:BACK OF THE LEG
  11. BASIC ROUTINE:SIDE LYING
  12. BASIC ROUTINE:FRONT OF THE LEG
  13. BASIC ROUTINE:THE FEET
  14. BASIC ROUTINE:CHEST
  15. BASIC ROUTINE:THE NECK
  16. BASIC ROUTINE:THE HEAD
MELANOMA& SKIN CANCER
  1. SKIN CANCER:RISK FACTORS AND STATISTICS
  2. TYPES OF SKIN CANCER
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
  1. INFORMED CONSENT
  2. MASSAGE REFERRAL FORM
  3. BREATHING EXERCISES
  4. SUMMARY
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
  1. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 1
  2. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 2
  3. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 3
CASE STUDIES
  1. CASE STUDY 1:BREAST CANCER
  2. CASE STUDY 2:COLON CANCER
  3. CASE STUDY 3:KIDNEY CANCER
  4. CASE STUDY 4:PROSTATE CANCER
  5. CASE STUDY 5:ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA
  6. CASE STUDY 6:BRAIN TUMOUR
  7. CASE STUDY 7:TESTICULAR CANCER
  8. CASE STUDY 8:OESOPHAGEAL CANCER
  9. CASE STUDY 9:LUNG CANCER
  10. CASE STUDY 10:BOWEL CANCER
FINAL ASSESSMENT
  1. FINAL ASSESSMENT
  2. PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES

Location

59 Grosvenor Road, TN12AY, United Kingdom, TUNBRIDGE WELLS

About The Provider

The Medical Massage Lady Training School
I qualified in Swedish massage and Preheat treatments back in 1997, and while I continued to use my massage qualification, my main career was as a surgical nurse and then a midwife on a high risk unit. After another 9 years of working with mainly physically disabled children and...
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