Incorporating Massage Into Health Care | Piktochart Infographic Editor

Incorporating Massage Into Health Care | Piktochart Infographic Editor


Corinne D. Bracko, CMT, LMT, CKTP has been practicing clinical massage therapy since 2004. She currently owns Dochas Clinical Massage Therapy and works out of her office in Columbia, Missouri. It is her goal to have massage become a staple of people’s health care plan to encourage a method of illness prevention instead of later sickness interception.

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