Pregnancy after stillbirth can bring increased emotional and physical challenges that affect maternal well-being. Explore findings from the HOPES Study, a Massage Therapy Foundation–funded feasibility trial examining Swedish massage as a supportive approach for women who are pregnant after loss. Learn how a series of massage sessions impacted anxiety, worry, and coping, and what participants found most helpful. This session also offers practical insights into safety and therapeutic relationships to help inform clinical care for this population.
The Massage Therapy Foundation’s International Massage Therapy Research Conferences (IMTRC) are designed to bring together an engaged massage therapy-focused community of thought leaders, educators, clinicians, and researchers as well as other allied health practitioners to discuss recently completed and ongoing massage therapy research. This session was originally presented at IMTRC 2025. For more information, please visit the Massage Therapy Foundation.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand supporting women after child loss
- Learn how to use massage to support women after child loss
- Understand safe practices with this population
- Understand findings from HOPE study
Sarah Fogarty, PhD, LMT, is a massage therapist and researcher. She has been practicing massage since 2000 and has worked with high-level athletes, professionals, and individuals who are pregnant and individuals who have experience grief particularly those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss. She holds an adjunct fellow position at Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia. Dr. Fogarty holds advanced certifications in Neuromuscular Therapy and Prenatal Massage, with her clients seeing her for nurturing and informed approaches to pain management.
Course Expiration
Please note that you must complete each AMTA online learning course and pass the exam one year from the date of purchase. If you do not complete the course and pass the exam within one year, you will be required to re-purchase the course.
Online courses expire one year from the date of purchase. When a course expires, you will no longer have access to the course materials and will be required to re-purchase the course.
Course Approval Code(s)
LCEU0004847
Copyright
This course contains information that is proprietary. None of the material contained within this course may be used without the express written permission
of AMTA unless otherwise indicated in the course. As a reminder, before practicing any new modalities or techniques, check with your state’s massage therapy
regulatory authority to ensure they are within the state’s defined scope of practice for massage therapy.
Refunds
Online courses are non-refundable. AMTA will not cover fees incurred from duplicate payments, insufficient funds, stopped payments or credit/debit cards over
credit limits.