At the time of this interview, one hour into the four-hour event, the members of the ATSO had massaged ten student clients.
LaChance said the goal for the Massage-O-Thon event was to perform a massage on anywhere from 20 to 30 people.
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“Throughout, we get a lot of experience dealing with injuries, how to treat them, massage techniques, which is a lot of what we’re doing here … we also just learn how to do basic evaluations on injuries,” LaChance said. The Massage-O-Thon event serves as practice for that requirement. During the clinical rotation, each student will be placed with an athletic team here at the University of Maine, at Husson University, or in area high schools. “We do massages a lot with our clinical rotations that we get every semester, so we do this as a fundraiser for the events that we like to do throughout the year,” LaChance said.Įach semester, beginning their sophomore year, all athletic training majors must do a clinical rotation, LaChance explained. She manned the welcome table and gave massages at the Massage-O-Thon fundraiser. 1.Īlexis LaChance is a fourth-year athletic training major and member of the ATSO. To round out this semester, the ATSO offered these massages in the Totman Room of the Memorial Union this past Thursday, Dec. This is exactly why the Athletic Training Student Organization (ATSO) offered cheap massages during an event they call the “Massage-O-Thon” for students in the weeks that preceded finals week. Perhaps in your anxious pre-finals flurry, you’ve felt the pressures and physical ramifications of stress on the human body. If you’re a student reading this, you probably just cringed. There is no group of people better attuned to the feeling of impending doom than college students a few weeks before finals week.
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