Massage and Bodywork: Adapting Therapies for Cancer Care

Massage and Bodywork: adapting therapies for cancer care will appeal to qualified massage and bodywork therapists wanting to expand their knowledge and skills. It brings together the most common forms of bodywork with a focus on an important and challenging area of practice. Whilst emphasising the need for safe practice, the book illustrates how massage can be safely adapted for patients and dispels some misconceptions about working with people who have cancer.

Features

The reader can access aspects of massage and bodywork, without necessarily reading the text from beginning to end.
An overview of each section, an abstract of each chapter, summary of key issues, conclusions and recommendation for best practice will be included.
Statements will be supported and discussed utilising research findings and peer reviewed literature.
Focuses on aspects of massage and bodywork to support safe, competent and compassionate practice.

Section 1: Key Themes

1. Cancer and Its treatments

2. Integrative Practice

3. Evaluating the Evidence

4. Professional and Potent Practice

5. Working with the Denied Body

6. Body Psychotherapy in Cancer Care

7. Therapist as Teacher

Section 2: Practitioners at Work

8. The HEARTS process

9. Massage and Essential Oils in Haemato-oncology

10. Collaborative Working

11. Shiatsu for Symptom Management

12. Lymphoedema

13. Massage & Spinal Cord Compression

14. Creative Approaches to Reflexology

15. Adapting Chair Massage

16. Being Met with Care: Massage Work with Vulnerable Patients