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		<title>Office Massage Therapy Can Help Employee Posture and Well-Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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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>Exploring Massage Therapy: Acupressure (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s blog post.
Simply put, acupressure is the placement of pressure on pressure points of the body. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy Decreases Stress and Increases Well-Being, Reports The New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from The New York Times: Massage therapy has been shown to decrease levels of hormones that cause stress and increase levels of hormones that cause contentment and well-being.
While we’ve written about the proven stress-busting abilities of massage therapy, as well as its ability to improve mood, it’s always nice when the leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Massage Therapy: Lomi Lomi Massage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer’s issue of the Massage Therapy Journal includes a detailed look at Lomi Lomi massage, a modality that originated in Hawaii and has since been “westernized”, gaining recognition among massage therapists in America. The specifics of the modality are pretty interesting as there are many differences, and some similarities, between Lomi Lomi massage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy: A Healthy Alternative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pain is something that we all experience, and it is also something that massage therapy has been shown to counter and prevent (click here). In fact, surveys have shown that people choose massage therapy in part because it helps reduce pain and generally increases their wellbeing (click here). The fact that massage therapy is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy’s True Power</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/massage-therapy%e2%80%99s-true-power/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/therapeutic-massage-therapy-in-more-ways-than-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/?p=526</guid>
		<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>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>Adolescents, Aggression, and Massage</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/adolescents-aggression-and-massage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<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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