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Exploring Massage Therapy: Acupressure (Part II)
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged acupressure, anxiety, back pain, CAM Therapy, children, health, hospital, insomnia, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, neck pain, pain, pre-operative anxiety, relaxation, stress, tension
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Massage Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis: An Effective CAM Therapy
As we have written, massage therapy is an excellent Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and can be a CAM therapy for many different conditions (for example, see last week’s entry on burns and massage therapy). Recent research has shown massage … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, depression, health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, MS, multiple sclerosis, pain
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Massage Therapy Shown as an Effective Complementary Treatment for Burn Patients…Again
Most people, especially readers of this Blog, know that massage therapy can be a soothing complementary treatment to medical conditions such as cancer and asthma. New research is showing that massage therapy can help burn patients as well, a conclusion … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescents, anxiety, burn patients, burns, cortisol, health, itching, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, pain
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Massage Therapy as a Complementary Treatment for Stroke Patients
Last week we finished up a series of articles on medical massage therapy, and I can think of no better transition than to go from medical massage therapy to a medical condition that massage therapy has been demonstrated to help. … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, depression, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, stress, stroke, stroke patients
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Massage Therapy Good for New, Expecting Fathers, Too
This is somewhat of a follow up on last week’s entry about massage therapy and its benefits for pregnant women. As was reported in many news outlets across the country, around 10 percent of men experience serious depression either before … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, health, Massage, massage therapy, men, newborn, postpartum depression, pregnancy, prenatal
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Massage Therapy Beneficial for all Pregnant Women
We’ve mentioned earlier how massage therapy has benefits for women who are pregnant, and we’ve even written about hospitals in Tennessee that offer massage therapy to women who are delivering or have delivered babies there, noting that massage therapy can … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, health, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, muscle pain, pregnant, women
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Massage Therapy Shown to Benefit Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
The words massage and therapy seem to go together more and more the more one researches the therapeutic benefits of massage. The latest medical benefit we’ve found that massage therapy provides is an improvement in the health of children and … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, depression, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, sickle cell anemia
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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
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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
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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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