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About Complementary Therapies

“Complementary therapies are those that people use along with conventional medicine. Many of these therapies help relieve symptoms and improve quality of life by lessening the side effects of conventional treatments or providing psychological and physical benefits.”

The American Cancer Society

“What is currently being demonstrated about massage through research studies is that the emotional, physical and spiritual well being it brings to patients is significant…In summary, it is our belief that GENTLE, conscious massage is not only safe, but has many demonstrated beneficial effects (e.g. enhanced well being, decreased anxiety, nausea and fatigue).  There is no data to suggest that it causes any harm to persons with cancer.”

Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

“No patient should feel that their medical journey is to be taken alone or according to some stealth trajectory, invisible to their conventional providers. The delivery of medical care, like the experience of illness, is best viewed as a journey shared.”

David M. Eisenberg, MD, Dir.
Div for Research & Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
Harvard Medical School
Annals of Internal Medicine, July 1997

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