Category Archives: Health & Wellness
Massage for Valentine’s Day: A Gift to be Given Professionally
A lot of content seems to appear around the holidays for massage therapy-related services, for Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, even Valentine’s Day. Advertisements and articles about gifts and gestures that couples can give each other for Valentine’s Day extend … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Holiday, Massage
Tagged gift, Holiday, Massage, massage therapy, Valentine, Valentine's Day
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Massage Therapy’s Many Benefits for Breast Cancer Patients
Massage therapy can have tremendous benefits for people generally, for example, in dealing with stress (see last week’s entry). But massage’s therapeutic benefits extend to specific groups of people as well. This week I want to focus on how massage … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Pain Management
Tagged breast cancer, cancer, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, women
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Massage Therapy is an Unequivocal Stress Buster
Continuing on with our blog’s often-explored theme of the benefits of massage therapy for mankind, today’s blog focuses on an element that affects nearly all humans and that massage therapy has a great track record of treating effectively. That element … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Stress Reduction
Tagged anxiety, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, repetitive stress injury, stress, tension
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Jaw Pain and Massage Therapy
Over the past few weeks, I have written about the therapeutic benefits of massage therapy, specifically for infants and adolescents. Now I want to focus on the therapeutic benefits of massage therapy for all people, children and adults. This entry … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management
Tagged ethics, health, Massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, pain, trigger point
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Adolescents, Aggression, and Massage
Last week I wrote about a study posted on the Touch Research Institute’s Web site about the effect massage therapy and touch can have on infants (massage therapy, according to the study, was shown to improve responsiveness among infants. Click … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Stress Reduction
Tagged adolescent aggression, anxiety, chair massage, health, Massage, massage therapy, relaxation
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Infants, Massage, and Touch
This blog has been used a lot over the past year and a half of its existence to trumpet the therapeutic benefits of massage. And while this is a good site to find yet another ailment that massage therapy can … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage
Tagged health, infant massage, Massage, massage therapy, newborn, responsiveness
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Massage therapy eases neck pain and so much more
After lots of posts about the holidays, NFL stars, and ethics in massage therapy, I want to return to a subject that I think this blog does best: the therapeutic benefits of massage therapy. After all, massage therapy’s benefits to … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management
Tagged health, Massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, neck, neck pain, pain
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Aromatherapy and Massage, an Easy Combination
We already wrote about the medicinal benefits of aromatherapy, coupled with massage therapy, over a year ago (see post). As it says in that entry, aromatherapy and massage can be used (and has been clinically proven) to reduce stress levels … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Stress Reduction
Tagged aromatherapy, chair massage, health, immune system, Massage, massage therapy, relaxation, stress, table massage, tension
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Massage: The Perfect Complement (and gift) for the Holidays
DISCLAIMER: I know in my previous blog I said I would offer some solutions for personal and professional boundary transference, but I wanted to squeeze in a quick entry about Thanksgiving and the holidays first. Please look for the blog … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Holiday, Massage, Stress Reduction
Tagged Christmas, gift, Holiday, Massage, massage therapy, stress, Stress Reduction, Thanksgiving
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Understanding Trigger Points (Part III)
In my last two entries about trigger points, I’ve discussed how they have been studied, some ways they are described clinically, and the type of pain they cause for the people who suffer from them. I’ve done this all while … Continue reading
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Tagged health, Massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, pain, stress, tension, trigger point
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