I’ll be one of a few volunteers giving free massage and bodywork to the survivors and firemen of the Santa Barbara Tea Fire at Santa Barbara Yoga Center.  Lais da Silva, owner and founder of Santa Barbara Yoga Center, has been generous enough to organize a clinic at her beautiful and peaceful yoga center in an effort to promote healing in our community in the wake of this tragedy.
Please help spread the word to other professional healers and victims alike.  Roll your mouse over the “Share/Save” graphic below and …

By Anne Harding Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008; 2:26 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Massage helps people feel better after strenuous exercise by actually pushing the inflammation out of stressed muscles, new research in animals suggests.
Dr. Timothy A. Butterfield of the University of Kentucky in Lexington and his colleagues found “striking” differences between rabbit muscles that underwent massage-like loading immediately after exercise compared to muscles that weren’t massaged. “The muscle was able to produce a greater force than the non-massaged control limbs and it also looked a …

Sat Jul 26, 2008, 09:00 AM EDT
According to the American Diabetes Association, 24 million children and adults in this country have diabetes.
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks diabetes as the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.
As more people are diagnosed with diabetes, alternative forms of treatment are becoming increasingly common in the fight against the myriad of issues that accompany the disease.
One such alternative treatment is massage therapy.

by Su Fox (more info)
listed in massage, originally published in issue 125 – July 2006
I entered the field of massage in 1987 with my first massage qualification and a sheet of paper headed ‘Contraindications’. This informed me that I wasn’t to massage a woman during the first three months of pregnancy, anyone with cancer, an infectious condition, skin disorder or inflammation, to avoid scar tissue, and that I had to get the doctor’s permission before I massaged anyone else with a medical condition. Fortunately, most of my clients were …

by Louise Roy (more info)
listed in massage, originally published in issue 96 – Feb 2004
Massage and Cancer
Helena, a bright and vivacious professional woman in her thirties, booked a massage session at a well-established complementary health centre as part of her strategy for looking after herself after recent treatment for cancer. When she told the practitioner about her current health issues, she was told that she would not be able to receive a treatment due to a fear of causing the cancer to spread.
In hearing about Helena’s experience, I understood …

By Linda J. Buch
Special to The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 01/28/2008 11:41:35 AM MST
Lorie Purtill, 68, works with weights and a balance ball at the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute’s Ben Nighthorse Campbell Center in Greeley. (Post | John Leyba)
As Lance Armstrong said after recovering from cancer, “We have two options medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.”
The bicycling champ’s attitude should be taken during treatment, as well, based on research on cancer and fitness. Radiation, chemotherapy and stress can make patients weak, but medical experts say exercise …

8:56am Tuesday 1st January 2008
AS well as being one of the most rewarding and lively places to work, schools can also be among the most stressful.
Unruly pupils, mountains of paperwork and lesson plans can leave teachers drained.
So what better way to relax than taking time out from the day for a massage. Sounds like heaven? Well for teachers at schools in Worcestershire it is now a reality thanks to holistic therapy company Amba Therapies.
Once a term at Sytchampton First School a therapist visits to give teachers a chance to …

Tuesday, December 25, 2007 4:47 PM CST
By AIMEE HECKEL, Scripps Howard News Service
Jon Fox is always on, and so are his thumbs.
The Boulder, Colo., man e-mails through his BlackBerry handheld computer all day, all evening and throughout the weekend. He types and scrolls with his thumbs, not fingers, like on a standard keyboard. When he takes a break, it is to work at Whole Body Balance in Boulder.
Fox has had a handheld of some sort for two years. In that time, he has noticed his thumbs and elbows get …

by Solveig Berggren (more info)
listed in massage, originally published in issue 100 – June 2004
I have been a skilled sports massage therapist since 1991 and I started to introduce massage into schools in the south of Sweden in 1996. For me, it began with a project I had in a school for 4th graders (10-year-old children) about the environment. I met a lot of stressed, anxious children, the noise level was very high – so being a therapist I thought that massage would help these children to calm down …

by Jennifer Longmore (more info)
listed in massage, originally published in issue 107 – January 2005
This is an abstract of the full article that appeared in issue 107 of Positive Health magazine.
Statistics estimate that about 1.2 million working people suffer from musculo-skeletal disorders and everyday about six workers give up their jobs because of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). Other common conditions are: Cumulative Trauma Disorders, Occupational Overuse Injuries, Work Related Upper Limb Disorder, Back Pain, Neck Pain, etc. Many of these injuries stem from demands placed on the body, improper …

Jan 28 2008 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
BUSINESSES are increasingly turning to massage therapy to help combat at-work stress among employees.
Call centre staff are among those employees to benefit from the traditional anxiety-relieving therapy.
It is thought that the boom in at-work massage sessions is evidence that employers are taking a more pro-active role in their employees’ health and wellbeing.
Denise Bailey, a therapist and founder of Revive at Work, which provides at-work massage, said, “Call centres are very keen on it because their workers are on the telephones a lot, …

Massage: A simple 10-minute chair massage can release the tension in our bodies. The Sanford School Department is a local business that has offered to make massage therapy available for its staff. This past school year, the department instituted a program in which a local massage therapist sets up at each of the schools and offers 10-minute chair massages for only $5. The program is hugely popular and very well utilized.

“Boeing estimates that workers have seen an average three-point drop on a 10-point pain scale. The company has transformed return-to-work rates from virtually nothing to 90% return-to-job in only two years.”