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		<title>Massage Therapy as a Complementary Treatment for Stroke Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we finished up a series of articles on medical massage therapy, and I can think of no better transition than to go from medical massage therapy to a medical condition that massage therapy has been demonstrated to help.
Strokes are a leading cause of death and disability in the United States and world, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy Good for New, Expecting Fathers, Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is somewhat of a follow up on last week’s entry about massage therapy and its benefits for pregnant women. As was reported in many news outlets across the country, around 10 percent of men experience serious depression either before or after their partner’s pregnancy. The benefits of massage therapy for women before and after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy Beneficial for all Pregnant Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve mentioned earlier how massage therapy has benefits for women who are pregnant, and we’ve even written about hospitals in Tennessee that offer massage therapy to women who are delivering or have delivered babies there, noting that massage therapy can ease tension, lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety, and promote quicker healing. But as the Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy Shown to Benefit Children with Sickle Cell Anemia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words massage and therapy seem to go together more and more the more one researches the therapeutic benefits of massage.
The latest medical benefit we’ve found that massage therapy provides is an improvement in the health of children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia (also called sickle cell disease – SCD). I’ve included a link [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy’s True Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 or work of professional organizations.
But then stories like this one from the Arizona Daily Star [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy Dramatically Reduces Post-Surgery Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Integrative Healthcare Studies recently wrote that massage therapy has been shown to provide dramatic results in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism, Asthma, Children, and Massage (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 make.
The idea of massage therapy as a complementary therapy that can relieve the symptoms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Massage Therapy Techniques Improve Symptoms of Cancer Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 well as generally improving their mood, well-being, and post-surgical pain.
New research reported by massagemag.com shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy’s Many Benefits for Breast Cancer Patients</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/massage-therapy%e2%80%99s-many-benefits-for-breast-cancer-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massage therapy can have tremendous benefits for people generally, for example, in dealing with stress (see last week’s entry). But massage’s therapeutic benefits extend to specific groups of people as well. This week I want to focus on how massage therapy can help improve the symptoms and general condition of women with breast cancer.
Recent research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy is an Unequivocal Stress Buster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on with our blog&#8217;s often-explored theme of the benefits of massage therapy for mankind, today’s blog focuses on an element that affects nearly all humans and that massage therapy has a great track record of treating effectively. That element is: stress.
To start off, check out this article from The Massage Advancer, which obviously is [...]]]></description>
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