Massage and Acupressure (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Transforming Health Care Practice: A Series of Classes for Health Care Professionals

This is part of a series of classes designed to help clinicians integrate complementary or alternative medicine into their practice. Other classes include:

This course will emphasize how the impact of touch is necessary for the health and well-being of humans. We will discuss the evidence for the multiple outcomes of massage including comfort, caring, pain and stress reduction.

This experiential class will introduce simple, easy-to-use massage techniques and identify benefits and uses. It will also introduce you to the basic use of the traditional Chinese medicine technique of acupressure for common health concerns of patients and yourselves. Using acupressure, we can treat symptoms and help restore health.

Join instructors Jayson King, BS, RN, NCTMB, HN-BC and Pam Weiss, PhD, MPH, BSN, RN, LAc, DiplAc on Friday, October 9 from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The cost is $90. Allina Hospitals & Clinics employees receive a 15 percent discount.

Date and time

10/09/2009

08:30 AM

Location

Abbott Northwestern Hospital's Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
Outpatient Clinic
2833 Chicago Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407

Contact information

Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
2833 Chicago Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Phone: 612-863-3333
Fax: 612-863-9019