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Who Gets Massage And How Does It Help

I grabbed this article a while ago from The American Massage Therapy Association. It might not be terribly exciting reading but it shows how the understanding of the value of therapeutic massage is changing.

It also shows why YOU should consider massage as a natural tool for stress and pain relief.

These statistics are old and the numbers have gone up a ton since.

Who Gets Massage, Where And Why?

* According According to the 2009 AMTA consumer survey, an average of 22 percent of adult Americans received at least one massage between July 2008 and July 2009, and Continue reading “Who Gets Massage And How Does It Help”

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Massage Therapy for Muscle Pain

Does massage help relieve muscle pain?

Oh my goodness! Don’t even get me started on the benefits of massage.

I am SO biased! I LOVE massage!

Pain happens for lots of reasons but therapeutic massage can help with virtually ALL of them. Why? Because muscles are responsible for so much of your pain.

Massage ranges from so light it barely touches the skin to very deep, specific and corrective. There are almost as many types of massage as there are massage therapists! 🙂

The very light or subtle forms of touch can help comfort people who are dying or who have fibromyalgia or RSD. I remember barely tracing Continue reading “Massage Therapy for Muscle Pain”