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		<title>Therapeutic Massage Therapy in More Ways than One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<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>Massage Therapy is an Unequivocal Stress Buster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on with our blog&#8217;s often-explored theme of the benefits of massage therapy for mankind, today’s blog focuses on an element that affects nearly all humans and that massage therapy has a great track record of treating effectively. That element is: stress.
To start off, check out this article from The Massage Advancer, which obviously is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aromatherapy and Massage, an Easy Combination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We already wrote about the medicinal benefits of aromatherapy, coupled with massage therapy, over a year ago (see post). As it says in that entry, aromatherapy and massage can be used (and has been clinically proven) to reduce stress levels and help the immune system.
But in that entry, we glossed over the fact that making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Trigger Points (Part III)</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/understanding-trigger-points-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last two entries about trigger points, I&#8217;ve discussed how they have been studied, some ways they are described clinically, and the type of pain they cause for the people who suffer from them. I&#8217;ve done this all while maintaining that there is still a lot unknown about trigger points, how they are defined, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Trigger Points (Part I)</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/understanding-trigger-points-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massage therapy has been demonstrated to help relieve chronic pain, stress, and anxiety, all in a non-invasive way. For this, it deserves praise as a profession. But there are, of course, limits to what massage can do. Often pain and discomfort is caused by something (such as an internal injury, certain chemical imbalances, etc.) that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage: A Deeper Look (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.joylifetherapeutics.com/massage/health-wellness/massage-a-deeper-look-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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One of the most important things to do before giving – or receiving – a deep tissue massage is to determine which muscles need a deep tissue approach. It’s very rare that all muscles will need to have deep tissue massage and recipients can end up more beat up and tense after their massage if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massage and Migraine Headaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chair Massage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Migraine headaches cause severe pain and often incapacitate those who suffer from them.  Migraines are commonly associated with extreme sensitivity to light and sound, as well as with nausea and vomiting.  The pain and corresponding symptoms can debilitate sufferers for hours or even days.  The causes of migraine headaches are not easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tension Headache—It’s Not All in Your Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 17:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chair Massage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most common type of headache is known as the tension or stress headache.  While this type of headache may be considered garden variety, its causes are not always straightforward and recurrent episodes can be difficult to treat effectively.  Tension headaches are considered ‘normal’ as they are not the result of a more [...]]]></description>
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