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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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Autism, Asthma, Children and Massage (Part I)
Over the next two weeks I want to take a specific, then more holistic, look at how massage therapy helps improve health conditions by using specific studies that explored the benefits of massage therapy for children with autism and asthma.
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Tagged anxiety, asthma, autism, children, health, Massage, massage therapy
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Therapeutic Massage as a Treatment for ADHD
It’s back to school time, and this year thousands of students will be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly referred to as ADHD.
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Tagged adhd, adolescents, attention deficit, children, Massage, school, youth
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