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Therapeutic Laughter Patient Support Groups Help your patients and/or disease support groups include the benefit of therapeutic laughter to their healing program! Hospitals, Cancer Centers, and medical clinics across the country are including therapeutic laughter into their programs and so can you! Steve Durkac, a former hospital chaplain, partners with hospitals, hospices, long-term healthcare, medical management groups, physicians, nurses, chaplains, and every supporting personal involved in the healing mission of a healthcare organization, to inspire therapeutic laughter as a fun and effective means of stress management, improving well-being, and coping with disease. Laughter Programs... Lessen workplace stress loads! Contribute to your employees health! Improves staff morale! Builds team work! Reduces the stress hormone, cortisol! Increases endorphines, the "feel good" hormone! Eases muscle tension! Improves breathing! Increases T-Cell count, immune system cells! Increases Lymphocyte Blastogenesis, which help immune system work faster! Help vetilation and clear mucus plugs for better breathing! Exercise heart rate improvement! Enhances blood oxygen levels and circulation! Help blood vessels function better! Burns calories!                “Laughter has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system. Blood pressure is lowered overall and resting heart rate decreases. Additionally, the immune system appears to get tuned up. We should become more serious about laughter."           -- Dr. Lee Berk, Loma Linda University                     Listen to a clip from a Laughter Program on understanding the 3 types of laughter...   Workforce | Cargivers | Patients    Home |  Contact      © Copyright 2008 by  Merry Medicine Productions   |  All rights reserved. | Site Map Hosted with DreamHost and created with McWeb Software.