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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 Helps Before, After – and During?!? – Birth
We’ve written about the magic of massage therapy before, and how it helps mothers (and fathers) relieve tension, lower their blood pressure, and reduce their anxiety, both before birth and after. But a new study published in the May 2010 … Continue reading
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Tagged health, hospital, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, newborn, pregnancy, pregnant, women
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Massage Therapy in the Medical Field (Part III)
We’ve been writing over the past few weeks about medical massage therapy and the difficulty of defining what it is exactly. While we reached a fairly bland definition last week, what’s more important is that now, more than ever, people … Continue reading
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Tagged health, hospital, Massage, massage industry, massage therapist, massage therapy, medical massage therapy
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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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Massage Therapy Comforts Sick Children
An increasing number of pediatric health care practitioners are incorporating massage to compliment treatment as well as to provide comfort to ill children. The Touch Research Institute has studied the role that pediatric massage can play in the improvement of … Continue reading