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		<title>Exploring Massage Therapy: Acupressure (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about acupressure, defining the modality and describing its benefits generally. This week I want to examine the specific benefits acupressure provides, as detailed in recent scientific research.
The first study comes from a 2010 issue of the journal Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which demonstrated acupressure’s ability to decrease pain levels in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis: An Effective CAM Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we have written, massage therapy is an excellent Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and can be a CAM therapy for many different conditions (for example, see last week’s entry on burns and massage therapy). Recent research has shown massage therapy to be effective in dealing with symptoms on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) as well.
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy Shown as an Effective Complementary Treatment for Burn Patients…Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people, especially readers of this Blog, know that massage therapy can be a soothing complementary treatment to medical conditions such as cancer and asthma. New research is showing that massage therapy can help burn patients as well, a conclusion that backs up similar research done from the past decade.
First, the newest research comes from [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/massage/massage-therapy-shown-to-benefit-children-with-sickle-cell-anemia/</link>
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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>Therapeutic Massage Therapy in More Ways than One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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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