Massage
therapy can complement healthy lifestyle, reward hard
work - People are becoming more and more aware of
the many benefits of massage therapy. In addition to
treatment of chronic pain, medical conditions, high
blood pressure and stress, massage therapy also helps
prevent injury and disease.
Patients
in pain are turning to rigorous massage regimen
- Plagued by chronic back pain since a car accident
seven years ago, Tiffini Widlansky turned to massage
therapy for help. But she found that even deep-tissue
massage offered only temporary relief. Then one of her
therapists recommended Rolfing, a lesser-known form
of hands-on work that focuses on balancing and realigning
the entire body.
Relaxing
massage for infants - NEW clinical data shows that
infant massage can decrease the number of night waking
(in babies with sleep problems) by about a third, says
Dr Judith Owens, Associate Professor of Paediatrics
at Brown Medical School and director of Paediatric Sleep
Disorders Clinic at Hasbro Children’s Hospital
in Rhode Island, United States.
