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…)
Posts Tagged ‘newborn’
Massage Therapy Good for New, Expecting Fathers, Too
Friday, July 9th, 2010Infants, Massage, and Touch
Friday, January 8th, 2010This 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 therapeutic benefits of massage therapy.
This week I’m writing about another study from their resources, this one demonstrating the benefits of touch and massage therapy among infants. (more…)
Think Baby, Think Massage
Thursday, July 30th, 2009What images do see when you think of massage? Is it an athlete receiving a healing and performance-improving sports massage? Or is it a mom getting a well-deserved massage at a spa? There are many different images we associate with massage – be it athletes, tables, moms, chairs, oils, backs, hands, feet, etc. But one of the last images that I am sure would come to anyone’s mind would be the image of a baby.
But it should be as massage can be an integral part of bringing babies into the world healthily, as well as building a successful relationship with the parent as the baby goes through its first year of life.
Hospitals Now Offering Therapeutic Massage to Pregnant Women and New Moms
Friday, August 15th, 2008Several Tennessee hospitals have begun offering therapeutic massage to women who are delivering babies within their network of facilities. (more…)