Category Archives: Pain Management
Sports Massage Therapy and Baseball
As we’ve written in past entries, sports massage can be extremely beneficial to all athletes as massage therapy targeted to key areas of the body can help improve an athlete’s range of motion and flexibility, helping to reduce the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Sports Massage
Tagged baseball, health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, pain, sports, Sports Massage
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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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Office Massage Therapy Can Reduce Stress, Pain and Costs
Last week we wrote about how office massage therapy can help reverse postural problems and the pain associated with them. While there is research that has been done showing that massage therapy can help in many different areas (relieving stress, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Massage, Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Stress Reduction
Tagged chair massage, health, Massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, office massage, pain, stress, workplace massage
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Office Massage Therapy Can Help Employee Posture and Well-Being
One thing that we promote strongly is office massage, as it can be extremely beneficial to employees. We have discussed how workplace massage can be unobtrusive to the general set-up of an office, and how it can help diffuse stressful … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Massage, Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Stress Reduction
Tagged acupressure, back pain, digestive problems, health, Massage, massage therapy, muscle pain, neck pain, office massage, pain, relaxation, shoulder pain, stress, workplace massage
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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 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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Tagged acupoint, acupressure, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, pressure points, stress
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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
Posted in Health & Wellness, Massage, Pain Management, Stress Reduction
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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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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