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Exploring Massage Therapy: Acupressure (Part III)
Writing about acupressure the past couple of weeks got me curious about acupoints – pressure points on the body where therapeutic results can be realized through the application of appropriate amounts of pressure. Basically, acupoints are the points on the … Continue reading
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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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Exploring Massage Therapy: Acupressure (Part I)
Acupressure is an intriguing modality of massage therapy as its methods and potential benefits are extremely expansive. It’s also hard to get a precise definition of what acupressure actually is, which is what we will try to do in today’s … Continue reading
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Tagged acupressure, acupuncture, health, Massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, pain, pressure points, relaxation, self-massage, stress, tension, trigger point
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Sports Massage: Using Massage Therapy to Improve Range of Motion
An exciting finding recently published in the academic Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research shows that short, targeted massage therapy sessions can increase an individual’s range of motion. While more research needs to be done to examine whether different types … Continue reading
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Tagged athletes, flexibility, Massage, massage therapy, range of motion, Sports Massage
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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 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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Tagged Massage, massage industry, massage therapist, massage therapy, trends
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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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Tagged Massage, massage industry, massage therapist, massage therapy, trends
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Massage Therapy Industry Trends Difficult to Predict (Part I)
Last week I wrote a somewhat disparaging entry about the Massage Therapy Journal, and how it made a claim (that workplace massage is increasing) and then failed to back it up. After examining the AMTA Consumer Survey Fact Sheets from … Continue reading
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