Contents tagged with palliative care

• Massage Therapy for Palliative Care

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022 1:23:37 PM

  This infographic outlines the benefits of massage therapy for people in palliative care. This includes helping people in palliative care reduce their pain, relieve their anxiety and fatigue, … more

  Authors: RMTAO

  Tags: Promoting the Profession, Marketing, Infographics and Fact Sheets, palliative care, hospice

• Shannon Marshall, RMT at SickKids

  As an RMT on the paediatric palliative care team at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Shannon Marshall has had the opportunity to help many children with life-limiting illnesses.

  Many of … more

• Advocacy Update – Hospice Palliative Care Ontario

  As a result of the meeting with John Fraser, MPP on Feburary 22, 2018, Andrew Lewarne, Executive Director and CEO of the RMTAO met with the President and CEO of Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) … more

• Massage Therapy and Palliative Care

  Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to care for people with life-threatening illnesses, no matter the prognosis, and focuses on improving the quality of life of both the patients and … more

• 10th Annual Palliative Medicine Update

  The RMTAO attended the 10th Annual Advanced Palliative Medicine Update in May 2014. We gathered five high quality studies that demonstrated the validity of including massage therapy in the palliative … more