Category Archives: Massage
Massage Therapy’s True Power
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management
Tagged anxiety, health, hospital, Massage, massage therapy, massage's power, relaxation, therapy
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Therapeutic Massage Therapy in More Ways than One
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage
Tagged anxiety, cancer, geriatric massage, health, Massage, massage therapy, osteoarthritis, pain, relaxation, stress, tension
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Massage Therapy Dramatically Reduces Post-Surgery Pain
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, cancer, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, post-surgery care, post-surgery pain, surgery
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Massage Therapists and Taxes
It’s tax week, with all taxpayers having until Thursday, April 15 to file their income taxes for 2009. While this is a stressful time for all industrious Americans, it is especially taxing (ha!) for massage therapists. Taxes are difficult for … Continue reading
The Great Recession and Massage Therapy
Good news for massage therapists – the amount of job opportunities in the field of massage therapy may be increasing during the recent economic downturn. According to an article by the Detroit Free Press, there is a strong demand for … Continue reading
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Autism, Asthma, Children, and Massage (Part II)
Last week I wrote specifically about two studies that demonstrated massage therapy’s marked ability to improve the symptoms of autism and asthma. These bring up the perspective of massage therapy as a holistic therapy in the overall conclusions that they … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Stress Reduction
Tagged anxiety, health, holistic benefits, Massage, massage therapy, quality of life, stress, strong relationships
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Autism, Asthma, Children and Massage (Part I)
Over the next two weeks I want to take a specific, then more holistic, look at how massage therapy helps improve health conditions by using specific studies that explored the benefits of massage therapy for children with autism and asthma.
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Tagged anxiety, asthma, autism, children, health, Massage, massage therapy
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Simple Massage Therapy Techniques Improve Symptoms of Cancer Patients
I wrote recently about the positive effects that massage therapy has for people suffering from breast cancer. Massage therapy has been proven to help women going through cancer treatment, both in improving levels of important compounds in their blood as … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, health, Massage, massage therapy
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Why do People Choose Massage Therapy?
Massage therapy’s great. And there are numerous studies outlining why, most coming from a medicinal point of view (we’ve written about a lot of them: massage therapy’s helpful to cancer patients, people who are stressed, people suffering from jaw pain, … Continue reading
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Massage Therapy Festival and Hall of Fame
We wrote recently about NFL football player Errick (Ricky) Williams wanting to become a massage therapist after he finished his impressive football career. On a lighter note, there’s also been some news about Britney Spears wanting to become a professional … Continue reading
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Tagged festival, hall of fame, Holiday, Massage, massage therapy
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