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		<title>Massage Can Help Those Suffering From PTSD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two weeks we’ve been looking at the increasing popularity of attending massage therapy school, and earlier this year we wrote an entry about massage therapy being named one of the top careers out there. The U.S. News &#38; World Report wrote that massage therapy was a top career as the education required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage Therapy as the Aspirin of CAM Therapies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Office Massage Therapy Can Reduce Stress, Pain and Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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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 III)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
When searching for information about acupoints, I came [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/exploring-massage-therapy-acupressure-part-i/</link>
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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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