Massage therapy can have tremendous benefits for people generally, for example, in dealing with stress (see last week’s entry). But massage’s therapeutic benefits extend to specific groups of people as well. This week I want to focus on how massage therapy can help improve the symptoms and general condition of women with breast cancer.
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Massage Therapy’s Many Benefits for Breast Cancer Patients
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Think 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…)