Posts Tagged ‘surgery’

Massage Therapy Dramatically Reduces Post-Surgery Pain

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

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 pain and anxiety reduction for post-operative pain associated with many different surgeries, especially heart surgery. (more…)

Massage for Knee Pain

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The knee is a complex arrangement of muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and bones that becomes more vulnerable to injury as we age.  Chronic knee pain can be caused by a number of factors and can have a negative effect on one’s quality of life.  Massage therapy has demonstrated its effectiveness in treating knee pain, as well as aiding the muscles of the lower body to keep the knee in proper alignment. (more…)