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Do the parents of your patients want to take a more active role in their child’s healthcare? Add a pediatric massage therapist to the team to provide touch therapy and teach parents to massage their children!
Infant massage,
or massage for babies,
is typically a practice taught to mothers for daily application, a practice that research has shown can improve the sleep of both the infant and the mother (Field, 2019).
Mayo Clinic even has two-week, virtual infant massage training course for parents!
Click below to find out more.
Source: Garoo, 2023
Source: Mayo Clinic, 2018
By incorporating pediatric massage therapy into a healthcare practice, parents could be taught to provide daily massage. This has been shown to improve familial relations, reduce aggression and anxiety, and promotes nonviolent communication (Beider et al., 2007).
Pediatric Massage Therapy is being provided to children in hospitals across the country. Some of these hospitals providing pediatric massage are:
Children's Hospital Los Angeles - https://www.chla.org/heart-touch-massage
Children's Hospital Orange County - https://www.choc.org/programs-services/integrative-health/
Benioff Children's Hospitals of UCSF - https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/providers/cathy-fujimoto
Mayo Clinic of Austin - https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/locations/austin/services-and-treatments/massage-therapy
Univeristy of Kentucky Markley Cancer Center - https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/integrative-medicine-health/services/massage-therapy
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio - https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/specialties/massage-therapy
St. Mary's Hospital for Children in New York - https://www.stmaryskids.org/programs-services/complementary-care/
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