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Massage Therapy Shown To Be the Best Choice of Treatment for Lower Back Pain
Massage therapists often gush about the therapeutic properties of massage therapy, saying it can lower levels of anxiety and stress, improve wellness, and even reduce pain. And for the most part, they’re right. Indeed, many academic studies have demonstrated the … Continue reading
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Exploring Massage Therapy: Myofascial Release (Part II)
In our previous entry we described myofascial release, how it compares to structural integration, and the need to be highly trained in the modality in order to know how to manipulate fascia in the correct way so it creates an … Continue reading
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Compiling Data from the AMTA’s and ABMP’s 2010 Massage Therapy Fact Sheets: Money and Massage Therapists
Last week we looked at the ABMP’s and the AMTA’s fact sheets for 2010 (click here and here) and found that the industry is a multi-billion-dollar one that is growing quickly in the amount of money it generates per year. … Continue reading
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Compiling Data from the AMTA’s and ABMP’s 2010 Massage Therapy Fact Sheets: Money
Forgive me again for being late in exploring this (we’re way into 2011 already!), but I wanted take a look at the industry fact sheets for massage therapy of 2010 from two major professional organizations, the AMTA and the ABMP. … Continue reading
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Massage Therapy and the Skin (Part II)
Last week we wrote a post about an article in the AMTA’s Massage Therapy Journal about massage therapy and the skin, describing how the article does a good job of listing what therapists should look for when massaging and doing … Continue reading
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Massage Therapy and the Skin (Part I)
Often a massage therapy career can be a bit of a grind, especially when a full schedule of regular clients keeps you seeing the same people and performing the same intake/massage. Fortunately, most licensing bodies require massage therapists to take … Continue reading
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Massage Can Help Those Suffering From PTSD
Over the past two weeks we’ve been looking at the increasing popularity of attending massage therapy school, and earlier this year we wrote an entry about massage therapy being named one of the top careers out there. The U.S. News … Continue reading
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Tagged altruism, health, high blood pressure, Intensive Care Unit, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, stress, veterans
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Massage Therapy One of the Best Careers Going
The publication U.S. News & World Report recently came out with a list of the 50 best careers of 2011, and massage therapy was one of the careers it selected. While I’ve linked the article above, I wanted to summarize … Continue reading
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Massage Therapy Industry Trends Difficult to Predict (Part III)
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at general trends in the massage therapy industry (click here for earlier entries). So far we’ve been able to conclude that the industry is generally growing rapidly (especially from 2005 to … Continue reading
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Massage Therapy Industry Trends Difficult to Predict (Part II)
Last week I wrote about the increase in the size of the massage therapy industry over the past five years, but concluded that workplace massage was most likely not responsible for that. This week I’ll explain why.
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