Infant’s Massage
Infants suffer from stress when they are being brought into a new environment to adapt. They experience discomfort, pain, anxiety, annoying sensations, inflammations, infections, reactions to the environment that lead to many disorders or developmental problems.
Infants have many health issues and the body’s self-healing mechanism can be supported through Infant’s Massage, Infant’s Craniosacral Therapy and Infant’s Myofascial Release. Infant’s massage helps to reduce pain, restriction, susceptibility to infection, inflammation, poor circulation and poor development. Infants can respond positively and experience faster recovery from Infant’s massage and incorporated with other therapies.
Infants don’t have many years of habitual attention, emotional baggage and the complications that adults may have. By treating their problems at the earlier stages of their life you will be preventing problems from developing further.
Early evaluation and treatment of infants is recommended as colic, feeding difficulties, digestive problems, respiratory problems, muscle floppy and low muscle tone could often be quickly reduced or eliminated.
The benefits of Infant’s Massage, Infan’t Craniosacral therapy and Infan’ts Myofascial release are:
- Aid in mental and physical relaxation
- Assist in recovery from injuries / illness
- Calm the nervous system
- Diminish chronic pain / discomfort
- Enhance skin tone / muscle tone
- Enhance respiratory functions
- Decrease gastrointestinal distress
- More contented / interactive
- Enhance self-regulation ability
- Assist premature development
- Increase the ability to resist diseases
- Relieve aching and tight muscles
- Relieve neurological symptoms
- Promote restful sleep
- Reduce mental stress and anxiety
- Strengthen the immune system
At Place to Heal, Grace Ren, R.M.T and a Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist is experienced in treating chronic health ailments with infants and children. She was trained in Infant’s massage for when she was in China. Later she trained in Infant’s massage for infants, autistic children, and Pediatric Myofascial Release in Canada. She helped many Infants and children over the years in relieving their discomforts.
Place to Heal provides Infant’s massage incorporated other multiple therapies to help relieve signs and symptoms related to chronic infants’ health issues which include:
- Asthma
- Apnea / Snoring
- Allergy reactions
- Abdomen distension
- Belly pain
- Bow legs
- Birth injuries
- Breathing problem
- Blocked tears
- Colic or Sleepless
- Cough or Choking
- Cold / Sniffles
- Constipation or Diarrhea
- Crossed or Wandering eyes
- Dry or Watering eyes
- Difficulty swallowing
- Difficulty breathing
- Difficulty feeding
- Excessive spit up
- Ear infections
- Failure to thrive
- Failure to gain weight
- Floppy muscle
- Food intolerance
- Fever or inflammation
- Indigestion or Gassy
- Inward or Outward ankles
- Jaundice or Blue baby
- Loss of appetite
- Latching problem
- Language delayed
- Low muscle tone
- Lump in abdomen
- Muscle spasticity
- Muscle atrophy
- Muscle dystrophy
- Motor problems
- One-sided feeding
- Pain in leg, arm, neck
- Premature symptoms
- React to environment
- Stuffy / Running nose
- Shakes / Jerks
- Skin dryness / rashes
- Swelling
- Teething problems
- Torticollis
- Thumb sucking
Success cases Examples:
(1) A 3 months old baby boy, his head tipped to left side and he could only lie on his left side. He would cry when his Mom tried to turn his head to the opposite side. The shape of his head was slightly asymmetry. This we call Torticollis. This problem should be corrected preferably at an earlier stage of life. With a few treatments, the baby boy was able to lay on both sides freely. Eventually the condition of head asymmetry would have a great chance to be self-corrected.
(2) A 2 year old boy had heart murmurs, history of multiple seizures, his breathing was very hard and loud, his nose stuffed with mucus, eyes watering, he suffered constant constipation with large abdomen, and he was grinding his teeth at night very loud. After a few treatments, his breathing was much easier, his running nose and watering eyes nearly stopped and the stuffy mucus began to clear up. He was no longer grinding his teeth, and his bowel movements became normal. He looked happier and talked much easier.
(3) An 18 month boy, his nose was blocked and he had to breathe through his mouth. It became very hard and laborious work for him to breathe, because his neck and upper body muscles worked hard to assist his breathing and it also put difficulties on his speech. After a couple treatments, this hard labor work of breathing largely subsided and he was breathing mostly through nose, his speech made easier and his language rapidly developed after.
Subsequently, he had a fever, he was weak and drowsy. During that one treatment, his fever immediately went down, he bounced back right away and was running around after the treatment.