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 <
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> 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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