Information about Massage for Your Minor Child
Massage is a great way to treat pain, anxiety, sleeping disorders, limited range of motion, increase healing from non-life threatening illness that is not contageous, and from acute injuries that leave the body tired.
The above statement includes and applies to all ages of people from babies into the elderly needing assisted living needs.
If you would like to have your minor child massaged by Janis Corona LMT, it is necessary to inform you about the benefits, treatment, and areas massaged so that you can decide if massage of your minor child is permitted by you the parent or guardian.
A minor child is a child who is under the age of 18 years old and not financially or cognitively able to represent him or herself independently with the same type of deductive and logical reasoning an adult who is more experienced in life can for oneself.
In the state of California, minors are all under the age of 18 and need to have his or her guardian's permission to do anything to his or her body.
Some precautions of massage as treatment for illnesses:
Massage is not recommended for any person having an elevated body temperature, sickness, contageous skin or body ailment, or a stage of cancer that can spread the cancer throughout the body to other tissue unless an end of life care or hospice care and pain management for end of life care is the only treatment patient is seeking to make their limited time on Earth more comfortable with a doctor's permission.
Benefits of Massage for minor:
Relieve anxiety and stress from school exams and studying, relieve tension and sore muscles from school athletic or youth athletic events such as soccer, cheer, or football, increase range of motion from a healed sprain of a major tendonous region such as the achilles tendon or the rotator cuff muscles of the shoulder, aid in sleep and general relaxation.
When treating a minor the possible areas treated by Janis Corona LMT are:
The back (only to waste line), arms, legs (3/4 from knee to glute), neck, shoulders, scalp, face, hands, feet, and stretching of the ankles, knees, hips, neck, shoulder, elbows, wrists, and back as needed to increase range of motion and improve circulation.
The types of massage modalities used are those that won't leave marks, such as Swedish, sports, reflexology, cranio-sacral, lymphatic drainage, and myofascial with silicone cupping.
The tools used are the hands, fingers, forearms, elbows, hot stones, and silicone cups only for lymph drainage and/or myofascial massage, hot towels (not too hot), and cold stones if recommended.
Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization Tools or IASTM tools are not used to treat minors due to the markings they can leave on the minor child. Silicone cups 'parked' or left on minor's body for longer than 10 seconds isn't a method used so the minor doesn't have marks on their back. Unless the parent consents and signs a consent form to be treated with IASTM and/or silicone cups 'parked' on body possibly leaving marks that last one day to two weeks.