Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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 usually strike suddenly with dramatic consequences. Fortunately, massage therapy has been shown to ease stroke patients’ levels of pain and stress while improving their quality of life. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, depression, health, massage, massage therapy, pain, stress, stroke, stroke patients
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
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 their pregnancy thus seem to naturally extend to men. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, health, massage, massage therapy, men, newborn, postpartum depression, pregnancy, prenatal
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
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 of Integrative Healthcare Studies points out in an article published this May, “[w]omen with high-risk pregnancies are often deprived of bodywork, even though they can benefit the most.” (more…)
Tags: anxiety, health, massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, muscle pain, pregnant, women
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
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). (more…)
Tags: anxiety, depression, health, massage, massage therapy, pain, sickle cell anemia
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
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 come along and remind you exactly what the proven benefits of massage therapy translate to: an improvement of the human condition.
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Tags: anxiety, health, hospital, massage, massage therapy, massage's power, relaxation, therapy
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
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, it is easy to forget the impressive collection of benefits that massage therapy provides.
Fortunately for this week’s report, another writer has pulled together a pretty thorough list of massage therapy benefits for us. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, cancer, geriatric massage, health, massage, massage therapy, osteoarthritis, pain, relaxation, stress, tension
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
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 pain and anxiety reduction for post-operative pain associated with many different surgeries, especially heart surgery. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, cancer, health, massage, massage therapy, pain, post-surgery care, post-surgery pain, surgery
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
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. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, health, holistic benefits, massage, massage therapy, quality of life, stress, strong relationships
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, asthma, autism, children, health, massage, massage therapy
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Continuing on with our blog’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 a little biased in favor of massage therapy. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, health, massage, massage therapy, pain, repetitive stress injury, stress, tension
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