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Exploring Massage Therapy: Myofascial Release (Part II)
In our previous entry we described myofascial release, how it compares to structural integration, and the need to be highly trained in the modality in order to know how to manipulate fascia in the correct way so it creates an … Continue reading
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Exploring Massage Therapy: Myofascial Release (Part I)
On the more therapeutic side of massage therapy, many modalities exist that focus on specific health benefits. We have written before, for example, about acupressure, structural integration, and the effectiveness of massage therapy as a Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) … Continue reading
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Tagged fascia, health, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, myofascial release, pain, tension
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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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Exploring Massage Therapy: Lomi Lomi Massage
This summer’s issue of the Massage Therapy Journal includes a detailed look at Lomi Lomi massage, a modality that originated in Hawaii and has since been “westernized”, gaining recognition among massage therapists in America. The specifics of the modality are … Continue reading
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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 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
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Tagged anxiety, health, Massage, massage therapy, pain, repetitive stress injury, stress, tension
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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
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Tagged aromatherapy, chair massage, health, immune system, Massage, massage therapy, relaxation, stress, table massage, tension
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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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Understanding Trigger Points (Part I)
Massage therapy has been demonstrated to help relieve chronic pain, stress, and anxiety, all in a non-invasive way. For this, it deserves praise as a profession. But there are, of course, limits to what massage can do. Often pain and … Continue reading
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