Service Description

​-Massage is a cost-effective therapy for pre-term infants. -Pre-term infants gained more weight with just five days of massage. -Over the 6-week period, the massage therapy infants gained more weight, showed greater improvement on emotionality, sociability, and soothability temperament dimensions and had greater decreases in urinary stress catecholamines/hormones (norepinephrine, epinephrine, cortisol). -Infants receiving massage showed fewer sleep delay behaviors and had a shorter latency to sleep onset by the end of the study. -Massage may have a stress reducing effect on pre-term infants in the NICU. -Reduction of illness and diarrheal episodes in orphaned children in Ecuador. -Improve quality of sleep and reduce sleep-disordered breathing in low birth weight babies.