Category Archives: Health & Wellness
Animal Massage Therapy is more than just Pet Spas
When most people think of massage therapy for animals, especially pets, the first thing that comes to mind, I think, is a pampered exuberance – dogs who get $200 spa treatments and cats who get manicures while eating $10-a-can meals. … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, animal health, animal massage, animal massage therapy, health, Massage, massage therapy, pet health
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Guns N’ Roses N’ Massage Therapy
Last week we referenced a news article about a massage therapist volunteering at a hospital, helping a 13-year-old through his painful condition. This week another story caught our eye, this time from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix (in central Saskatchewan, Canada). Apparently, … Continue reading
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Tagged concert, Guns N' Roses, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, on tour, rock star
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Massage Therapy’s True Power
Often, especially when writing about massage, the human angle of the benefits that massage therapy provides can be lost. This blog is surely guilty of this crime, extolling the proven virtues of massage therapy by noting the publication of studies … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management
Tagged anxiety, health, hospital, Massage, massage therapy, massage's power, relaxation, therapy
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Therapeutic Massage Therapy in More Ways than One
Every couple of months we try and pull together a list of the many benefits of massage therapy (click here or here). We do this because, while writing individually about different benefits of massage therapy week in and week out, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, cancer, geriatric massage, health, Massage, massage therapy, osteoarthritis, pain, relaxation, stress, tension
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Massage Therapy Dramatically Reduces Post-Surgery Pain
We’ve written about massage therapy’s effectiveness in helping reduce post-operative pain in breast cancer patients (click here), however, recent studies have shown that massage therapy’s pain-reducing properties are in no way limited to just breast cancer patients. The Institute for … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, cancer, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, post-surgery care, post-surgery pain, surgery
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Healthcare and Massage Therapy
President Barack Obama signed historic healthcare reform last week, ending a yearlong debate over exactly how the U.S. healthcare system should be reformed. What does this mean for massage therapists? Not too much apparently.
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Tagged health, healthcare, healthcare reform, integrative healthcare, Massage, massage therapy, medical field
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Autism, Asthma, Children, and Massage (Part II)
Last week I wrote specifically about two studies that demonstrated massage therapy’s marked ability to improve the symptoms of autism and asthma. These bring up the perspective of massage therapy as a holistic therapy in the overall conclusions that they … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Stress Reduction
Tagged anxiety, health, holistic benefits, Massage, massage therapy, quality of life, stress, strong relationships
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Autism, Asthma, Children and Massage (Part I)
Over the next two weeks I want to take a specific, then more holistic, look at how massage therapy helps improve health conditions by using specific studies that explored the benefits of massage therapy for children with autism and asthma.
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Tagged anxiety, asthma, autism, children, health, Massage, massage therapy
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Simple Massage Therapy Techniques Improve Symptoms of Cancer Patients
I wrote recently about the positive effects that massage therapy has for people suffering from breast cancer. Massage therapy has been proven to help women going through cancer treatment, both in improving levels of important compounds in their blood as … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, health, Massage, massage therapy
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Wintertime Blues and Massage Therapy
As the East coast shovels out from yet another brutal winter storm, and places as far south as Florida see snow, many of us are left to wonder exactly how much longer winter can last. The shorter days and limited … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, depression, funk, gift, health, Massage, massage therapy, relaxation, snow, stress, winter
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