Updated Post: Massage Therapy and Sport Related Aches

Updated Post: Massage Therapy and Sport Related Aches

Due to doping regulations, athletes have strict restrictions of what they can put in their bodies, so naturally they look for alternative ways to ease the pain of overexertion.

For sports injuries, massage therapy has been shown to be a safe, non-pharmacological therapeutic intervention that is simple to carry out, economical, and has very few side effects.

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Rub on pain products – what you need to know

Rub on pain products – what you need to know

"There may be something in the idea that rubbing a painful area might actually help. We rub the skin over a painful area almost instinctively. Touch applied at particular frequency can be pleasant. And while there is research that shows that it might help, it is a big jump to demonstrate that rubbing alone is a useful treatment for pain if that pain is moderate or severe."

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2017 Goals and Talks

2017 Goals and Talks

Wanting to move past my fear of public speaking, I booked five speaking engagements for 2017.

The first talk of the year was recorded at Western University and will be used as part of a continuing education program for Canadian Pedorthists. The central theme of all of my talks will be to provide an overview of how massage therapy can be utilized as a frontline intervention for aches and pain.

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Massage therapy as a therapeutic intervention is being embraced by the medical community

Massage therapy as a therapeutic intervention is being embraced by the medical community

Massage therapy has been shown to be a safe non-pharmacological therapeutic intervention that is simple to carry out, economical, and has very few side effects. If you are not yet aware of the growing body of evidence to support the work that we do, here is a list of systematic reviews and clinical guidelines that lend credibility to massage therapy.

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Updated Biopsychosocial Model of Massage Therapy

Updated Biopsychosocial Model of Massage Therapy

My current goal is to promote the value of massage therapy to medical professionals by synthesizing and simplifying noteworthy finds and best available supporting evidence applicable to massage therapy.

As part of an upcoming presentation I have put together a post outlining potential responses to massage therapy, here is a brief excerpt.

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