Tag Archives: Massage

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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Barefoot Massage: What is it exactly?

This blog has dedicated itself to exploring massage therapy’s many modalities (trigger point therapy, geriatric, baby, among others). So it seemed natural that a modality that sounds as interesting as “barefoot massage” would deserve investigation. The only problem: there seems … Continue reading

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Animal Massage Therapy is more than just Pet Spas

When most people think of massage therapy for animals, especially pets, the first thing that comes to mind, I think, is a pampered exuberance – dogs who get $200 spa treatments and cats who get manicures while eating $10-a-can meals. … Continue reading

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Cheetah Massage Therapy

Continuing on the theme from the past few weeks of massage therapists doing extraordinary things in extraordinary places, today’s entry features a massage therapist from Boulder, Colorado who went to South Africa, visiting a cheetah preserve there. While touring the … Continue reading

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Guns N’ Roses N’ Massage Therapy

Last week we referenced a news article about a massage therapist volunteering at a hospital, helping a 13-year-old through his painful condition. This week another story caught our eye, this time from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix (in central Saskatchewan, Canada). Apparently, … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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

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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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