Infusion center massage – Greet The Day

Clinical research shows that hospital-based massage therapy reduces anxiety and pain, may reduce neuropathy and fatigue, and promotes relaxation and feelings of well-being.

Started in 2006, Greet The Day’s Infusion Center Massage Program is provided by professionally licensed and oncology massage accredited therapists; massage therapists and estheticians, who provide hand and foot massage for patients which they receive their cancer IV treatment in outpatient treatment centers.

Greet The Day therapists provide infusion center massage in multiple cancer centers, and have provided massage during treatment for more that 11,000 patients. We are available to help guide you in establishing an Infusion Center Massage program for your cancer patient community.

Comforting massage provided onsite at the cancer treatment center is a reminder that the body can find relief and comfort in spite of the anxiety, uncertainty and discomfort experienced during the routine course of treatment.

I had the good fortune to have Ruth Mulligan provide me with infusion center foot massage during my recent chemo sessions at St. Joseph Hospital of Orange for base-of-tongue cancer. I didn't know what to expect, but after the first session, I definitely wanted to make it part of every chemo day routine.

I asked the nurse for Atavan as a way to deal with anxiety, and that helped in its own way, but pharmaceutical products tend to take you away from yourself. Ruth's massage technique had a way of opening secret little doors of peace and strength inside me and I would later call upon my memory of the infusion center massage when I was strapped to the radiation table.

During radiation a mask over my head was bolted to the table to keep my head immobile, which is a weird, claustrophobic experience.Thinking back on the effects of the foot massages in the infusion center helped me center myself in a good place for the radiation sessions. I highly recommend oncology massage to others going through the challenging process of battling cancer.