Extreme Home Makeover” Crew and Volunteers

to Get R&R From Massage Therapy Training Institute

Students and Instructors Volunteer to Provide

Chair Massages for Tired Staff and Workers

Kansas City, MO (March 12, 2007) –- Exhausted Extreme Home Makeover crew members and volunteers will have a chance to relax and seek relief for sore muscles thanks to students and instructors at the Massage Therapy Training Institute.  Approximately 40 students and 10 instructors from the area’s oldest and most respected massage therapy training program have volunteered to provide chair massages this week as ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover builds a home for the Jesus Jacobo family.

“This is the second time that we’ve performed this service for an Extreme Home Makeover,” says Don Farquharson, president of the Massage Therapy Training Institute. “We were pleased to be asked to provide services again and support the many volunteers working to make another local family’s dream come true.”

Massage Therapy Training Institute students and staff are scheduled to be at the site each day. The Massage Therapy Training Institute volunteers will bring their own massage chairs to use as they provide relief for stressed and tired workers.

“We expect Wednesday through Saturday, when they’re at the height of rebuilding, to be the busiest,” says instructor Arlene Williams, LMT, NCTMB, who is in charge of scheduling the massage school’s volunteers.

Volunteers plan to offer chair massages from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. March 13; 3 - 8 p.m. March 14; 8:30 - 11:45 a.m. and 6 - 10 p.m. March 15; 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and 5 - 10 p.m. March 16; and 2 - 6 p.m. March 17.

Massage reduces mental stress leading to a calmer mind, increased mental clarity, and reduced level of anxiety. On a physical level, massage has been proven to reduce stress, reduce blood pressure, increase joint flexibility and range of motion, relieve tension-related and eye-strain headaches, improve circulation of both blood and lymph fluids, and much more.

The Massage Therapy Training Institute, 9140 Ward Parkway, is the area’s oldest and most respected massage training program. The 18-year-old school, which  places graduates in positions in hospitals, doctors' offices, spas and individual practices, also has a second campus in Topeka. Focused on providing a premiere curriculum taught by outstanding instructors, the Massage Therapy Training Institute is renowned within its profession for incorporating a basic wellness curriculum into its 600-hour program.