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		<title>Wintertime Blues and Massage Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/wintertime-blues-and-massage-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 sunshine can leave people depressed, lethargic, and illness-prone, looking for something to give them a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do People Choose Massage Therapy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massage therapy’s great. And there are numerous studies outlining why, most coming from a medicinal point of view (we’ve written about a lot of them: massage therapy&#8217;s helpful to cancer patients, people who are stressed, people suffering from jaw pain, etc.).
But a new study shows another, substantial reason why people appreciate and seek out massage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy Festival and Hall of Fame</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/massage/massage-therapy-festival-and-hall-of-fame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We wrote recently about NFL football player Errick (Ricky) Williams wanting to become a massage therapist after he finished his impressive football career. On a lighter note, there’s also been some news about Britney Spears wanting to become a professional massage therapist (although these reports – and the individual dedication – don’t seem to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage for Valentine’s Day: A Gift to be Given Professionally</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/massage-for-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-a-gift-to-be-given-professionally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of content seems to appear around the holidays for massage therapy-related services, for Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, even Valentine’s Day. Advertisements and articles about gifts and gestures that couples can give each other for Valentine’s Day extend to massage therapy, such as this article from a community Web page in Maryland.
The idea [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/massage-therapy%e2%80%99s-many-benefits-for-breast-cancer-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain Management]]></category>
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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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		<title>Jaw Pain and Massage Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/jaw-pain-and-massage-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/jaw-pain-and-massage-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks, I have written about the therapeutic benefits of massage therapy, specifically for infants and adolescents. Now I want to focus on the therapeutic benefits of massage therapy for all people, children and adults.
This entry will be about jaw pain and ways massage therapy can help combat it. A recent article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescents, Aggression, and Massage</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/adolescents-aggression-and-massage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/adolescents-aggression-and-massage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chair massage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/?p=394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about a study posted on the Touch Research Institute’s Web site about the effect massage therapy and touch can have on infants (massage therapy, according to the study, was shown to improve responsiveness among infants. Click to see my post).
This week I want to focus on a different study, also posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infants, Massage, and Touch</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/infants-massage-and-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/infants-massage-and-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been used a lot over the past year and a half of its existence to trumpet the therapeutic benefits of massage. And while this is a good site to find yet another ailment that massage therapy can help cure, the Touch Research Institute is the gold mine of scientific research into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage therapy eases neck pain and so much more</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/massage-therapy-eases-neck-pain-and-so-much-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/massage-therapy-eases-neck-pain-and-so-much-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After lots of posts about the holidays, NFL stars, and ethics in massage therapy, I want to return to a subject that I think this blog does best: the therapeutic benefits of massage therapy.
After all, massage therapy’s benefits to people’s health are great. Thus far we have featured blogs about massage therapy and its ability [...]]]></description>
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