As a PT who practices clinically and who teaches, there is not much emphasis
placed on massage in the classroom or clinically. In fact the amount of
emphasis in PT school has declined since I graduated back in 1994. I have
seen much manual therapy clinically and the use of different techniques to
increase flexibility before functional tasks are performed. I also agree
that there is not much evidence research wise to support long term affects
of increased flexibility after massage therapy.
Greta

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:32 AM, greta von der luft
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>  I cannot answer any of the questions that you posed. However, a  thought
> comes to mind is there a massage school nearby where students need x number
> of hours before they can sit for their license? Assuming your state
> licenses
> massage therapists? This may be a way to reduce the cost of the massage....
> Just a thought,
> Greta
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Peter Hunsberger <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > My wife sees a person for massages every once and while (she has a bad
> > back) and I guess they got talking about our six year old daughter who
> > has CP.  Our daughter is confined to a wheelchair most of the day,
> > though she uses a stander and gets some transfers to various other
> > seating equipment at school. The thought is that her muscles must get
> > fairly sore?  They found a person who would give our daughter a
> > massage and our daughter seems to think she would like it.  She likes
> > a lot of hands on PT so I'm guessing that she thinks it might be more
> > of the same...  This is somewhat expensive; $75 / hour, and although
> > we have a special needs trust this is not a good time to be pulling
> > money from it if we don't really need to.
> >
> > So, the question for the list is 1) has anyone who has CP had a
> > massage as a child and what did they think? and 2) more generally, has
> > anyone done this for a child or an adult who has CP and was it
> > beneficial in any way or rather just a nice to have experience?
> >
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> > Peter Hunsberger
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