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It’s long been known that meditative mindful breathing helps with various health conditions, including pain. To that end, researchers at the University of Michigan compared two types of meditative breathing — traditional mindful breathing and virtual reality, 3D-guided mindful breathing — to reduce pain.
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A lack of sleep affects people’s ability to feel for others. Sleep deprivation and emotional fatigue can hit anyone, but first responders and health-care workers are especially vulnerable due to shift work, long hours and the overall stressful nature of their jobs.
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A new study published today in Nature Neuroscience has uncovered neuronal circuitry in the brain of rodents that may play an important role in mediating pain-induced anhedonia — a decrease in motivation to perform reward-driven behaviors.
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This is the premiere guide to managing a successful massage career and running a successful holistic business. Written by veteran massage therapist and holistic business coach Jessica Abegg (LMT, MBA, MSIB), this visual, hands-on book contains all the tools readers need.
It focuses on both practical concerns (such as finance and legal organization), and intangible elements of success (reflection, balance, and self-care). It also includes vital information on marketing and the Internet: knowledge often absent in the high-touch, low-tech world of massage. Throughout, it reflects the growing recognition that it is urgently important to help practitioners manage businesses and careers more successfully, as reflected in the inclusion of Business Practices in the new Massage Therapy Body of Knowledge.
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I was about to become a massage injury statistic. Yes, I could live with the intermittent stabbing pain between my shoulder blades, but not the constant hand and elbow numbness. The doctor had names for my conditions – cervical radiculopathy, cubital tunnel syndrome and an unstable shoulder. He also had a solution: Quit massage. I thought long and hard about hanging up my hands, but here’s the thing, for 20 years of conducting massage I had overcome other injuries and pain conditions. So, I had some confidence that I could figure this new pain situation out, and I gave myself a year to experiment.
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Registration closes October 26th.
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Are massage therapists properly equipped, in their training and informed by evidence, to respond appropriately to patient affect, particularly in advanced care situations?
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