Massage for Cancer Patients

This treatment, provided by Massage Therapists trained in Cancer Massage, includes relaxation and reflexive techniques and can relieve cancer patients' nausea, pain, fatigue, and depression. Up to 50 percent of all cancer patients in the United States will seek out complementary therapies such as massage therapy to help with the side effects of cancer treatment.

For 3 years Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City asked patients who used their massage therapy program to rate their symptoms before and both immediately and 48 hours after. Up to two days later, patients reported that their levels of anxiety dropped by 52 percent; pain, 40 percent; fatigue, 41 percent; depression, 31 percent; and nausea, 21 percent. Compared with standard drug therapies for these symptoms, massage was as effective, cheaper, less invasive, and more comforting, not to mention free of side-effects.

    Cost:
  • 30-Minute Session $35
  • 45-Minute Session $45
  • 60-Minute Session $55

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For more information, contact Bodyworks Massage Institute at (812) 490-9009 or click here to email Bodyworks.