In the Massage Therapy Industry, there are new three hot trends, we’ll look at in this post. (Note: This article also appears in the January issue of Modern Health & Living.)
The beginning of a new year often leaves us craving change and transformation, doesn’t it?
The massage benefits from massage therapy help decreased pain, symptom distress and anxiety in hospitalized cancer patients, according to a recent study.
Forty-one patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer participated in the study for how massage benefits cancer patients, “Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients,” during a 16-month period. Ninety-five percent of the participants were men. Subjects had the following cancer diagnoses: lymph, lung, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, head and neck, leukemia, breast and skin.
New research shows Alzheimer’s patients may lose muscle mass, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Neurology. As the U.S. population ages, and as research shows the benefits of massage therapy to seniors, massage for the elderly may grow as a specialty.
Physiotherapy may prevent lymphedema after breast cancer surgery that involves dissection of axillary lymph nodes, researchers say.
Significantly fewer women developed the condition when they were given physiotherapy, compared with women who only received education on preventing the condition, Maria Torres Lacomba, MD, of Alcala de Henares University in Madrid, and colleagues reported online in BMJ.
Therapeutic Touch significantly reduced the anxiety of pregnant inpatients with chemical dependencies, according to a recent study.
“Efficacy of Therapeutic Touch in Treating Pregnant Inpatients Who Have a Chemical Dependency” was conducted at British Columbia Women’s Hospital, in Vancouver.