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Massage Therapy as the Aspirin of CAM Therapies
CAM therapies are Complementary and Alternative Medicine treatments that help alleviate symptoms without relying on pharmaceuticals or more invasive medical treatments like surgery. While there are many CAM therapies out there, I wonder if any have as many potential diagnoses … Continue reading
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Tagged acupressure, arthritis, CAM Therapy, cancer, depression, health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, neck pain, pain, stress
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Sports Massage Therapy for Runners
We’ve written generally about massage therapy and its benefits for athletes (see our entry on Sports Massage), but often times a description of the general benefits can gloss over the specific positives sports massage provides athletes of a specific sport. … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Sports Massage
Tagged circulation, deep tissue massage, health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, runners, running, sports, Sports Massage, sports massage therapy, swedish
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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 and Veteran’s Day
Last month I wrote a Blog post that was somewhat critical of the Massage Therapy Journal, a publication put out by the American Massage Therapy Association. Today, with Veteran’s Day coming up next week, I want to commend the AMTA … Continue reading
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Tagged chair massage, health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, pain, war veterans
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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 in the Medical Field (Part II)
We wrote last week about the difficulty of defining medical massage therapy, as its definition can vary state-by-state or by municipality. Indeed, the lack of a national or professional definition leaves medical massage therapy’s determination very nebulous.
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Tagged health, insurance probider, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, physician
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Massage Therapy in the Medical Field (Part I)
We talk about the therapeutic and medicinal benefits of massage therapy so often that it seems important to actually define what medical massage therapy is exactly. The hard part, of course, is that medical massage therapy lacks clear definition across, … Continue reading
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