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Massage Therapy
What
is massage therapy?
What
is the background of massage therapy?
What
are the indications for massage therapy?
What
are the contraindications for massage therapy?
What is massage
therapy?
- Massage therapy
is a broad term encompassing several different techniques.
- The main objective
of massage therapy is to relax a person and relieve muscle tension and
knots.
- Swedish, deep
tissue, trigger point, and myofascial release are common forms of massage
therapy.
- Massage therapy
has the potential to influence the body in many ways. When a person
begins to relax and release muscular tension, there is easier access
to a meditative state, lowered levels of stress, decreased pain, and
an increased feeling of well being.
What is the
background of massage therapy?
- Massage therapy
is one of the oldest health care practices.
- References to
massage are found in Chinese medical texts that are 4,000 years old.
- Modern scientific
massage therapy was introduced in the United States in the 1850s. Its
health benefits are just beginning to be investigated using Western
methods of scientific inquiry.
What are the
indications for massage therapy?
Massage therapy is often used for general relaxation. The Center is involved
in ongoing research into the benefits of massage therapy for the following
disorders:
What are the
contraindications for massage therapy?
- open skin lesions
- some types of
cancer
in which mobilization of lymph may contribute to metastases
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