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Chronic
Pain Management & Other Benefits of Therapeutic Massage
Chronic
Pain Eased By Massage Therapy - Clinical Studies Prove It
Chronic
pain conditions arise due to a variety of causes. Sometimes it
is from a past trauma, either recent or long-forgotten. Automobile
accidents, sports injuries, slip and fall incidents, and other
past trauma are just a few of the possibilities.
The resulting
scarring of the soft tissues can create a tight, bound condition,
which pinches nerves and causes chronic pain, numbness, tingling,
or burning sensations.
'4-HAND
MASSAGE', AS WELL AS TRADITIONAL MASSAGE BY ONE THERAPIST, ALSO
AVAILABLE
Sometimes,
chronic pain is caused by degenerative diseases, such as osteoarthritis
or fibromyalgia. In these cases, the pain may not have trauma
as root cause, yet may also cause chronic pain in the sufferer.
Inflammatory conditions may also contribute to chronic pain.
Other chronic
pain conditions such as headaches, migraines, TMJ pain, and neck
aches are also often alleviated by massage therapy.
Yet Other
Clinical Studies Show Massage Therapy Eases Other Symptoms
Recent studies
show that massage therapy can increase circulation, alleviate
stress and anxiety, dispel nausea, curtail insomnia, and lessen
pain, fatigue, and depression in cancer patients, specifically.
All clients
can benefit, however, and need not be suffering from cancer to
experience these positive effects.
Only a generation
or so ago, to claim that massage therapy can help such a wide
variety of symptoms and conditions would have been considered
an overzealous notion. Today, we are learning that these ancient
and modern healing techniques actually provide the benefits long
associated with such techniques.
Sources
- Abstracts
(Google
"studies massage therapy" , "abstracts massage
chronic pain", "massage therapy cancer study")
The Effects of Massage
Therapy in Symptom Management for a Patient Undergoing Chemotherapy
for Cancer
by Eric Mathis, DipMT,
LMT
Massage Therapy for Low
Back Pain A Systematic Review.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management,
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 65-69
E. Ernst
Effectiveness of Massage Therapy for Chronic,
Non-malignant Pain: A Review
Jennie C.I. Tsao, Pediatric Pain Program,
Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
USA
Cassileth BR and Vickers AJ. Massage therapy
for symptom control: Outcome study at major cancer center. J Pain
Symptom Manage 2004;28(3):244-249.
Soden K, et al. A randomized controlled
trial of aromatherapy massage in a hospice setting. Palliat Med
2004;18(2):87-92.
Smith MC, et al. Outcomes of touch therapies
during bone marrow transplant. Altern Ther Health Med 2003; 9(1):40-49.
Please email,
or call 877 839 1537 for more information, or to book an appointment.
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Note:
We offer *strictly* therapeutic massage therapy. We do*NOT* offer
sensual 'massage', in any form.
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