Massage and cancer

Massage and Cancer used to be taboo when I first started out 20 years ago as a massage therapist.  Massage school used to tell us that it was strictly forbidden to do massage on anyone with cancer or who had survived cancer thinking that working on tumors would dislodge them and cause cancer to spread.
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Massage Training Controversy

One of the big issues in the massage profession has to do with the number of hours of education that one needs to become a professional, licensed massage therapist. While many states have adopted 500 hours of training as the basic amount of hours of massage school, there doesn’t seem to be any proof [...]

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Evidence Based Massage

I have been trying to understand what this new call for evidence based massage is all about. There is a research Yahoo Group called the journalclubonline where I am learning about this.
The massage profession is just starting to understand the significance of research – doing research and understanding research. Most massage therapists lack the basic [...]

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Relaxation vs Medical Massage

What is relaxation massage? What is Medical Massage? How is relaxation massage different from medical massage?
These questions are need to be answered by the massage profession now, because if we don’t start stepping up and defining ourselves – the insurance companies and individual state licensing acts will and are.
One of the reasons why [...]

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Massage Better than Psychotherapy?

Interesting Study on the effects of massage.
A Meta-Analysis of Massage Therapy Research
Christopher A. Moyer, James Rounds, and James W. Hannum
Under the Microscope
A Meta-Analysis of Massage Therapy Studies
By Shirley Vanderbilt
Originally published in Massage and Bodywork magazine, June/July 2004. Massage Today New Study Reviews Effectiveness of Massage Therapy: Researchers Draw Interesting Parallels Between Massage and Psychotherapy
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