Posts Tagged ‘health’
Friday, January 28th, 2011
As we’ve written in past entries, sports massage can be extremely beneficial to all athletes as massage therapy targeted to key areas of the body can help improve an athlete’s range of motion and flexibility, helping to reduce the chance of serious injury.
This would make its application to baseball seem obvious, as improved flexibility and range of motion would help fielders, batters and pitchers in their performance. But a little more research into the subject of baseball and sports massage shows just how helpful the modality is for the sport. (more…)
Tags: baseball, health, massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, pain, sports, Sports Massage
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
CAM therapies are Complementary and Alternative Medicine treatments that help alleviate symptoms without relying on pharmaceuticals or more invasive medical treatments like surgery. While there are many CAM therapies out there, I wonder if any have as many potential diagnoses as does massage therapy.
Consider that:
o Massage therapy has been demonstrated to help treat symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, lowering levels of pain, anxiety and depression while improving physical sensation and muscle movements. (more…)
Tags: acupressure, arthritis, CAM Therapy, cancer, depression, health, massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, neck pain, pain, stress
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Last week we wrote about how office massage therapy can help reverse postural problems and the pain associated with them. While there is research that has been done showing that massage therapy can help in many different areas (relieving stress, reducing pain, etc.) it’s always nice to read up on studies that show effective massage therapy in action.
MassageMag has published two such articles demonstrating the effectiveness of office massage in improving employee health. (more…)
Tags: chair massage, health, massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, office massage, pain, stress, workplace massage
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
One thing that we promote strongly is office massage, as it can be extremely beneficial to employees. We have discussed how workplace massage can be unobtrusive to the general set-up of an office, and how it can help diffuse stressful work environments (see our post here). But office massage is even more important today than before, given the nature of modern office work and its effect on a critical physical feature: posture. (more…)
Tags: acupressure, back pain, digestive problems, health, massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, neck pain, office massage, pain, relaxation, shoulder pain, stress, workplace massage
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Monday, December 27th, 2010
We’ve written generally about massage therapy and its benefits for athletes (see our entry on Sports Massage), but often times a description of the general benefits can gloss over the specific positives sports massage provides athletes of a specific sport. Today’s Blog will focus on running and how sports massage can help runners. (more…)
Tags: circulation, deep tissue massage, health, massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, runners, running, sports, Sports Massage, sports massage therapy, swedish
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
Called “tapotement” by many therapists, percussion massage therapy is a mini-modality (technique) in that it has its own, unique therapeutic properties and method, but it isn’t performed for very long like a massage modality (e.g. Lomi Lomi Massage).
Percussion massage therapy features no drums or outside instruments. Instead, therapists use their hands like timpani mallets, rapidly – but gently – hitting a massage recipient with a portion of their hands.
(more…)
Tags: health, massage, massage therapy, percussion massage, Swedish massage, tapotement
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Writing about acupressure the past couple of weeks got me curious about acupoints – pressure points on the body where therapeutic results can be realized through the application of appropriate amounts of pressure. Basically, acupoints are the points on the body where acupressure (or acupuncture) should be performed. (more…)
Tags: acupoint, acupressure, health, massage, massage therapy, pain, pressure points, stress
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
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 patients suffering from chronic neck pain. (more…)
Tags: acupressure, anxiety, back pain, CAM Therapy, children, health, hospital, insomnia, massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, neck pain, pain, pre-operative anxiety, relaxation, stress, tension
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Acupressure is an intriguing modality of massage therapy as its methods and potential benefits are extremely expansive. It’s also hard to get a precise definition of what acupressure actually is, which is what we will try to do in today’s blog post.
Simply put, acupressure is the placement of pressure on pressure points of the body. (more…)
Tags: acupressure, acupuncture, health, massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, pain, pressure points, relaxation, self-massage, stress, tension, trigger point
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
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. (more…)
Tags: anxiety, depression, health, massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, MS, multiple sclerosis, pain
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