Therapeutic Massage and the Stress Epidemic

Course Description:

The purpose of this course is to discuss the positive role professional therapeutic massage can play in the stress epidemic in our modern culture. We will examine the negative physiological and biochemical processes that occur in the body under stress and counteract them with the beneficial processes that occur in the body during massage. We will also look at the cultural symptoms that contribute to our collective stress and discuss the statistics that qualify stress as a national epidemic.