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Touch, Caring and Cancer: Simple Instruction for Family and Friends -- DVD with manual (English version)

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I am a cancer patient. TOUCH, CARING & CANCER is a wonderful DVD. It showed me and my husband how he could safely administer gentle massage. Both our shared experience of touch (he giving me the massage & me receiving) and the enormous muscle tension/ pain relief I experienced from the massages have been remarkable. I am now 10 weeks post surgery and am done with chemo & radiation. The gentle massages my husband continues to provide keep my moral positive and have strengthed our relationship.

What an inspiration this video is. I am a former Licensed Massage Therapist who presently works for a Hospice in upstate New York. This video captures exactly what I have been encouraging people to do for someone who is sick. Many times, family or friends feel helpless when they can't "do" anything for a patient. This video shows easy steps for someone to do a simple foot or hand massage to a longer full back-shoulder-neck massage. It helps so much for the patient! It warmed my heart that there is scientific evidence that massage reduces a patients pain! I knew it but now there's finally evidence! Our hospice did an inservice to all our RN's, LPN's Spiritual Care Counselors etc to show how to include massage in their visits with patients. They loved it! Next step is to get the families involved. The video is informative, inspiring, and filled me with hope. Thank you to the creators. If you are considering buying this, don't think twice. It is very well done and could help bring Massage Therapy to a new level, and into the realm health care as it should be.

As an oncology massage therapist for 10 years I was thrilled when I watched the video for the first time. Research is proving that massage can help side effects during cancer treatment. The reality is that many times people either can't afford safe massage, get the wrong kind of massage or their family members are afraid of hurting them if they were to massage them. The instructions and DVD takes the fear of causing discomfort away for the caregiver and allows them to offer gentle touch at a time when someone needs it the most.

This little guide book and DVD are gems! The written material thoughtfully and carefully describes ways to safely administer massage to people living with cancer which is then reinforced in the DVD that demonstrates each particular stroke and movement. The exchanges between the givers and the receivers are so beautiful and moving. It was also refreshing to see the diversity amongst the participants. I am a licensed massage therapist currently enrolled in a national certification course for oncology massage and I found this to be a wonderfully prepared resource. I envision using it with groups of caregivers who are eager to bring a measure of healing and wholeness to those they love. Every massage therapist should have at least 24 hours of training in working safely with clients with cancer and this should be a requirement too!

Touch, Caring, and Cancer is a beautifully made instructional DVD demonstrating how to give comfort touch to a loved one who has cancer. The massage therapists involved are excellent teachers and the participants talk from the heart about their experiences -- both the people with cancer and the care-giver/family members talk about how much this means to them. Often family caregivers begin to feel helpless but comfort touch is something everyone can offer to their loved ones who are ill. Anyone whose life is involved with cancer will find this DVD valuable whether a family member, patient, or oncology massage therapist, nurse, or physician. As a gift, it would be very meaningful. I hope the DVD will be made available in cancer clinic shops throughout the country.

I had the opportunity to take part in the reseach study utilizing this program. Outcomes of the study included pain reduction and decreased stress and anxiety for the cancer patient and their caregiver. The book and combined DVD is a MUST for any person wanting to share gentle comfort touch with a cancer patient.

I have been a practicing nurse and massage therapist for many years and this experience was a highlight of my nursing career. I saw lives brighten and change favorably by introducing relaxation and comfort with simple techniques of touch. This DVD needs to be part of the tools available for optimal cancer care.

Mary Malinski BA,RN,LMT,HN-BC

This is a straight-forward yet heartfelt video that addresses easing stress for those undergoing cancer treatments. It takes the approach that gentle, concise, touch has a profound healing effect on the loved one. It offers concrete methods for caregivers to approach massage as a way to mitigate the overwhelming stresses of cancer and actually offer something concrete that they "can do" to be there with their loved one at this crucial time. Sponsored by the National Institute of Health and produced by the foremost instructors in Oncology Massage including Tracy Walton and Janet Kahn, this video is a must have for laymen and professionals alike.

As a massage therapist working with cancer patients at all stages of the disease, I was very impressed with this DVD and manual. It gives simple massage techniques for family members and friends of patients with cancer to offer compassionate touch in a very relaxed presentation by qualified practitioners. I am working to establish an Oncology Massage Program at a Women's Center and this manual and DVD will definitely be available to all patients, as well as caregivers, who come to the Center.

I thought this was a wonderful dvd for anyone who views this!! How creative to create
something so positive out of something so tragic! It was done with the highest inten-
tions, with love & respect. I've studied under Tracy Walton and find her amazing! This is also good review for massage therapists as well!

As an oncology nurse and a massage therapist I am so pleased to see this type of teaching tool for caregivers. The DVD is presented in such a way that the information is straightforward and helpful for the average caregiver to feel that they are learning some "ready to use" techniques. While there is appropriate emphasis on the safety issues, the main theme is that there are many techniques that can be done to support their loved ones on the cancer journey. I hope to use this video in the home care/hospice setting as well as the outpatient cancer center where I work. Great job! I will be highly recommending this video to other oncology massage therapists.