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Like Yin and Yang: Mindful breathing for pain control

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.


Sleep loss affects how paramedics and health-care workers respond to patients’ feelings

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.


Researchers identify brain circuitry in rodents that may be responsible for negative emotional aspects of pain

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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Lean into it: The body mechanics strategy that saved my career

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. » Learn More
 
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MTAA 2021 AGM

November 4th, 10 am
Registration closes October 26th.
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Podcast: The role of empathy in massage

Are massage therapists properly equipped, in their training and informed by evidence, to respond appropriately to patient affect, particularly in advanced care situations? » Listen now