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Massage Therapy Helps Before, After – and During?!? – Birth
We’ve written about the magic of massage therapy before, and how it helps mothers (and fathers) relieve tension, lower their blood pressure, and reduce their anxiety, both before birth and after. But a new study published in the May 2010 … Continue reading
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Tagged health, hospital, Massage, massage therapy, medical massage therapy, muscle pain, newborn, pregnancy, pregnant, women
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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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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
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Think Baby, Think Massage
What images do see when you think of massage? Is it an athlete receiving a healing and performance-improving sports massage? Or is it a mom getting a well-deserved massage at a spa? There are many different images we associate with … Continue reading
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Hospitals Now Offering Therapeutic Massage to Pregnant Women and New Moms
Several Tennessee hospitals have begun offering therapeutic massage to women who are delivering babies within their network of facilities.
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Tagged Massage, neuromuscular, newborn, pregnant, prenatal, swelling, women
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