Services We Offer
Our Services
Hands to Help primarily works with disabled, elderly and terminal patients (and their caregivers), offering massage therapy, to provide relaxation, decrease feelings of isolation and depression, reduce pain and anxiety and to provide comfort in end of life care.
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Qualifications
Any one (or more) of the following criteria must be met in order to receive services:
- Medical diagnosis of a terminal illness (i.e., Alzheimer’s, cancer, ALS)
- Medical diagnosis of a progressive debilitative disease (i.e., Parkinsons, MS, paralysis)
- Patients currently receiving cancer treatments, regardless of prognosis
- Age 70 or older
- Fulltime caregiver
***A Medical Authorization form must be filled out by a Medical Doctor before Helping Hands can treat anyone. Click here for Medical Authorization Form.
Rates
Massage visits are $30 and are approximately on hour in length, based on the each individual and their needs. We are happy to provide patients and their families with information and assistance to raise money for additional visits.
Techniques
Massage is used to treat various conditions such as various types of cancer, osteoarthritis, lumbar back pain, nerve damage, paralysis, fibromyalgia, heart attack and stroke.
Each person and situation is uniquely different. Some of the techniques we incorporate on a case-by-case basis are:
- Compassionate Touch
- Geriatric Massage
- Passive Stretching
- Swedish Massage
- Trigger Point
- Joint Mobilization
- Manual Lymph Drainage
- Deep Tissue
- Senior Massage
- Reflexology
- Reiki
- Muscle Energy Technique
- Myfascial Release
- Cupping Therapy
