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Massage and Complex Trauma: A Case Study

by Su Fox

In this column on Body Massage, the author presents a case study of massage techniques regarding a client who suffered complex trauma as a result of prolonged, overwhelming abuse a...

Massage and the Importance of Medical Input

by Su Fox

The author, a Massage, Craniosacral and Psychotherapist, focuses on the importance of medical input in relation to body massage. As her brother is a Medical Consultant, she is in t...

Massage is Relaxing. Discuss...

by Su Fox

The author touches on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy), the internationally recognized and well-researched treatment for trauma, and the Holosync technology - develope...

Massage Matters: Massage and Medication

by Su Fox

This column focuses on the use of proper medication and massage techniques on an elderly woman with a complex medical picture....as she suffers from lower back pain due to wear and...

Massage Techniques for Childbirth

by Linda Kimber

Touch, in the form of a positive massage during labour, was an area I wanted to explore to determine whether it is a useful way of shifting the focus of active support away from th...

Massage Therapy for people with Cancer: A Practitioner's Experience

by Louise Roy

In this article, Louise Roy describes her experience with one cancer patient and discusses the challenges facing massage practitioners. During training, many massage students are w...

No-Hands Massage

by Gerry Pyves

Gerry Pyves describes how pain in his hands and wrists did not stop him from continuing with his massage practice. Instead, he developed the injury-free No-Hands Massage technique,...

Not All Massage Tables Are Created Equal

by Spencer Randon

This article would be particularly invaluable for a newly qualified, or even more experienced person working in the healing professions using bodywork. It provides a careful, syste...

Nothing New Under The Sun

by Clare Maxwell-Hudson

Dr James Mennel, Head of the Department of Massage at St Thomas’ Hospital (London) early in the last century, first brought out his book on massage in 1934. In this, her first colu...

On-Site Seated Acupressure Massage

by David Woodhouse

That which has generically become known in the Western world as 'On-Site Massage' has its roots in the Orient, as indeed do many other therapies.

Rhythm Mobility

by Darien Pritchard

Darien Pritchard has been practising massage for 25 years, and describes how he developed the Rhythm-Mobility technique, having noticed how clients' often resist massage and are un...

Sports Massage - A Therapy for All

by Wrio Russell

Although the name 'sports massage therapy' suggests that it is only suitable for athletes and dancers, Wrio Russell, a qualified massage therapist and founder director of the Londo...

Standards in Massage Therapy

by Leon Chaitow, ND DO

A question which I am regularly asked deserves an honest answer. "How do you find the standard of massage therapist here compared with elsewhere?" The truth is that standards of tr...

Thai Traditional Massage

by Maria Mercati

Touch is and always has been powerful medicine. It soothes, relaxes, comforts and heals. Massage is the means whereby touch is applied in diverse ways to achieve these effects. Tha...

The Application of Massage in Psychogenic Disorders

by Mario-Paul Cassar

It is well known that massage relaxes us and can benefit us on emotional levels, but can it help with more complex behavioural and neurological dysfunctions? Recent research has be...

The Healing Benefits of Oriental Massage

by Maria Mercati

This article is about four different types of Oriental Massage: Tui Na, Shiatsu, Thai massage and Indonesian massage. Although these are all distinct forms of therapy with their ow...

The Massage Practitioner and the Medical Profession - Then and Now

by Su Fox

This article focuses on the changes over the years on massage techniques and requirements. The author says massage is no longer just a therapy of indulgence and pampering but one t...

The Power Of Voluntary Work

by Clare Maxwell-Hudson

Regular contributor Clare Maxwell-Hudson shows how voluntary work has been a valuable part of societies all over the world. A large study in Michigan found that those who did volun...

Tuina: A complete holistic healing system from China

by Maria Mercati

Tried and tested over 4,000 years and still regularly used by over one fifth of the world’s population, Tuina is still little known in the West. Maria, who is an established teache...

Whole Meridian Massage Therapy

by Zhu Gang

This article focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine body massage and the meridians, the route to promoting better blood and energy circulation and overall communication between th...