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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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Massage Therapy Good for New, Expecting Fathers, Too
This is somewhat of a follow up on last week’s entry about massage therapy and its benefits for pregnant women. As was reported in many news outlets across the country, around 10 percent of men experience serious depression either before … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, health, Massage, massage therapy, men, newborn, postpartum depression, pregnancy, prenatal
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Massage Therapy Beneficial for all Pregnant Women
We’ve mentioned earlier how massage therapy has benefits for women who are pregnant, and we’ve even written about hospitals in Tennessee that offer massage therapy to women who are delivering or have delivered babies there, noting that massage therapy can … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, health, Massage, massage therapist, massage therapy, muscle pain, pregnant, women
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Massage Therapy Shown to Benefit Children with Sickle Cell Anemia
The words massage and therapy seem to go together more and more the more one researches the therapeutic benefits of massage. The latest medical benefit we’ve found that massage therapy provides is an improvement in the health of children and … Continue reading
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Animal Massage Therapy is more than just Pet Spas
When most people think of massage therapy for animals, especially pets, the first thing that comes to mind, I think, is a pampered exuberance – dogs who get $200 spa treatments and cats who get manicures while eating $10-a-can meals. … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, animal health, animal massage, animal massage therapy, health, Massage, massage therapy, pet health
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Massage Therapy’s True Power
Often, especially when writing about massage, the human angle of the benefits that massage therapy provides can be lost. This blog is surely guilty of this crime, extolling the proven virtues of massage therapy by noting the publication of studies … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, health, hospital, Massage, massage therapy, massage's power, relaxation, therapy
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Therapeutic Massage Therapy in More Ways than One
Every couple of months we try and pull together a list of the many benefits of massage therapy (click here or here). We do this because, while writing individually about different benefits of massage therapy week in and week out, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, cancer, geriatric massage, health, Massage, massage therapy, osteoarthritis, pain, relaxation, stress, tension
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Massage Therapy Dramatically Reduces Post-Surgery Pain
We’ve written about massage therapy’s effectiveness in helping reduce post-operative pain in breast cancer patients (click here), however, recent studies have shown that massage therapy’s pain-reducing properties are in no way limited to just breast cancer patients. The Institute for … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, cancer, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, post-surgery care, post-surgery pain, surgery
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Healthcare and Massage Therapy
President Barack Obama signed historic healthcare reform last week, ending a yearlong debate over exactly how the U.S. healthcare system should be reformed. What does this mean for massage therapists? Not too much apparently.
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Autism, Asthma, Children, and Massage (Part II)
Last week I wrote specifically about two studies that demonstrated massage therapy’s marked ability to improve the symptoms of autism and asthma. These bring up the perspective of massage therapy as a holistic therapy in the overall conclusions that they … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, health, holistic benefits, Massage, massage therapy, quality of life, stress, strong relationships
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