If you have a stabbing pain in the bottom of your foot when you walk, especially when you first get out of bed then you may have Plantar Fasciitis. Plantar Fasciitis affects almost 2 million Americans a year and is one of the most often-reported health problems relating to the feet. The bottom of your [...]
How massage therapy can help can with allergy symptoms You’ve probably seen the photos in your newsfeed of the yellow-green pollen cloud covering our region – named the pollpocalyptic cloud, the pollen apocalypse, and even pollmageddon. Then again, you didn’t need photos to tell you that the pollen is worse this season – you allergies [...]
This week it seems like I’m seeing more frozen shoulders due to immobility after surgery. If someone has surgery on a shoulder and keeps it stationary too long, then scar tissue will form around the incision site as well as in the shoulder joint itself. This can cause the muscles of the shoulder to become [...]
What is oncology Massage? Oncology massage is an approach to massage therapy based in both specialized massage treatments and compassion to help people manage their experience with cancer. Review of the scientific literature (MD Anderson Cancer Center) indicates oncology massage helps improve the quality of life. Benefits include improved relaxation, sleep, and immune functions as [...]
One specific type of pain has become so common that massage professionals have given it a nickname: “tech neck.”
