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For more than a decade, the Heart Touch™ Project has been Los Angeles’ leading educational and service non-profit organization devoted to the free delivery of compassionate care to isolated, bedridden individuals through the healing touch of massage therapy.

Since its inception in 1995, the goal of The Heart Touch™ Project has been to recruit, train, support and deploy a small army of volunteer massage therapists to go into the homes, hospitals, and hospices of the most ill and isolated individuals and provide free touch therapy.

To date, Heart Touch™ has trained hundreds of volunteer massage therapists, nurses, and other health care professionals who have provided thousands of massage sessions to the seriously ill.

In fact, Heart Touch™ is the only organization in Los Angeles that delivers free massage to non-ambulatory persons with AIDS, ALS, homebound seniors, persons in hospice care and hospitalized infants and children.

This unique service has been called upon by many of the region’s most prominent health care, home-health and hospice institutions, including Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai, UCLA Medical center, Kaiser Permanente Hospice, TrinityCare Hospice, and the Jewish Home for the Aging.


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         Basic  Benefits of Massage

    • Provides comfort and is soothing
    • Reduces  isolation
    • Reinforces a positive body image, helping the individual to cope with the loss of body  image due to physical debilitation
    • Enhances circulation/reduces edema
    • Enhances joint and muscle function
    • Improves energy level
    • Delays muscle atrophy for inactive people
    • Improves skin textures and general tone of tissue
    • Enhances organ function reflexively


    Gloves
    Disposable gloves are worn only when there are any open skin areas on either the client or the massage practitioner.


    Contraindications
    Contraindications for persons with HIV/AIDS, Alzheimers, stroke and other major diseases are often the same as for  any other client: issues with open lesions, neuropathy, fungus, rashes and herpes. For other conditions, please check with your health care provider.
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