Welcome to Paediatric Massage
Are you looking for a high-quality reputable massage services for your children? Look no further. Aurelia Vizitiu, RMT with over 20 years of professional medical experience, will help your child get better and restore mobility and flexibility in a comfortable and relaxing setting. The professional paediatric massage is available for residents of Toronto, GTA, Innisfil, Barrie, and surrounding areas. Infants, toddlers, older children, and pregnant women are welcome.
Paediatric massage is all about encouraging healthy touch and promising human contact for you and your little ones. The services are one-on-one, in person, with an initial assessment to understand the needs of a patient. Observing an RMT’s work can increase your confidence in massaging your child and help you learn how your little one communicates with you every day.
Infant Massage Therapy Course
This Infant Massage Therapy course is a 2-day hybrid class (1 day online and 1 day in-person).
Aurelia Vizitiu is a Registered Massage Therapist who focuses on infant massage therapy with 25 years and ongoing experience. She holds a medical degree from her home country as a paediatrician from Moldova, an Eastern-European Country.
Aurelia Vizitiu is an author of the Infant Massage Therapy: Manual Guide, Part I and II (further the Manual), both parts of which contain many pictures and diagrams that assist the audience in navigating and learning complex information in an easy way.
The objective of this course is to teach and enhance professional skills to other RMTs, healthcare professionals, and students, by learning and polishing new techniques of children’s massage. It is taught to grow your knowledge and successfully increase your skills in pediatric massage therapy.
Over two days, this training delivers lectures, hands-on practice, new techniques, group discussions, and demonstrations of assessment and treatment methods for infants and children.
Format:
• 2 days: online and in-person
• Hybrid training class
• You will need an infant/baby (or plushy doll) to practice your hands-on learning in the course
• Recommended to bring your own blankets/sheets and baby oils
You will learn:
1. About normal pediatric development
2. The benefits of infant massage
3. Precautions and contraindications for Infant Massage Therapy
4. Assessment and examination; newborn reflexes
5. Different types of massage for children
6. Exercises for each age group
Prerequisites for attending:
• Licensed Massage Therapist or students
• Other health care professionals
Workshop (in-person) Includes:
• 2 days of theory and hands-on practice
• Workbook
• Certificate of completion (when attending an in-person class)
Pay $100 deposit to reserve your space by e-transfer (babypediatricmassage@gmail.com)
**FOR FUTURE DATES: Please sign up by placing your name on the upcoming classes list by email: babypediatricmassage@gmail.com or by phone: 416-836-8017
NHPC Continuing Education Credits (CEU’s):
Hybrid: (Zoom & In person 2 days) = 10 credits
Online: (Zoom 1 day) = 5 credits
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Aurelia Vizitiu at babypediatricmassage@gmail.com
Paediatric Massage Service
Infant massage is intended to promote health and well-being through the manual manipulation of soft tissues. Pediatric massage therapy takes a careful approach towards each infant by taking into consideration infants’ physical and cognitive development and needs. Pediatric massage has plenty of benefits
The Benefits of Massage
- Relaxes and soothes a baby
- Creates a bond between you and a baby
- Improves weight gain
- Ameliorates blood circulation
- Improves immune system function
- Improves respiration
- Relaxes and stimulates muscle tone
- Improves joint mobility
- Improves weight gaiImproves digestion, releases colic, decreases gastrointestinal reflux;
- Helps with sleep patterns
- Reduces stress after surgeries, hospitalizations, or trauma
- Treats issues such as colic, torticollis, dysplasia, muscle hypo- and hypertonicity,
- rehabilitation after surgeries (e.g. club foot, torticollis, back surgeries, abdomen surgeries such as bowel obstruction or hernia)
Baby massage helps your child gently and happily transition into their new world by surrounding them with a gentle touch, rhythm, smells, and sounds of comfort.
Paediatric massage with its gentle touch combined with relaxing sounds helps children to adapt in their new living environment. It created new ways of bonding parents with kids. Once you enhance you massage techniques, your calming touch will make your child feel loved and cared for. Children will feel more relaxed and improve their sleep.
Frequently Asked Questions
The FAQ is updated on a regular basis. If your question was not answered here, or if you have a suggestion for an FAQ, please contact us.
What is the best age for massage?
If you, as a parent, are performing massage yourself, a baby can receive gentle touch and stroking from the moment he is born. Newborns are reassured by skin contact and it helps to establish bonds between a parent and a baby. Babies and women traditionally receive pre- and post- natal massage. You can start massaging a baby by yourself for a prophylactic purpose slightly longer once he reaches 8 weeks of age and if he does not have any medical issues. If a child has health issues, please consult your treating physician before commencing any massage.
How regularly baby should get massage ?
When is the best time for baby to massage ?
