massage therapy Tag

30 Sep

Posted at 13:48h in Pain Research

Craniosacral Therapy Safety Notice: Discuss craniosacral therapy with your healthcare provider before scheduling a session. Craniosacral therapy may not be appropriate for everyone. Contraindications include, but are not limited to:

  • Blood clots
  • A concussion
  • Brain swelling
  • Brain aneurysm
  • Chiari malformation
  • Any condition that causes cerebrospinal fluid pressure, flow or buildup

Craniosacral therapy should not replace evaluation or treatment by a licensed medical provider. Seek prompt medical care for new or unexplained symptoms such as a sudden severe headache, numbness, weakness or vision changes.

Craniosacral therapy has a loyal following and a skeptical research community. A practitioner uses light touch on the skull, neck, spine and sacrum.

Whether it does more than that is a different question. More recent reviews have reached less favorable conclusions than the earlier evidence. So it helps to know how the evidence has changed before booking a session.

[caption id="attachment_76390" align="aligncenter" width="500"]craniofacial-pain-pexels Photo by Jonathan Borba[/caption]

26 Oct

Posted at 12:52h in Author Interviews, Mental Health Research
massage-therapyThousands of people are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder each year. The National Alliance on Mental Illness estimates that 18.5% percent of the adult population in the U.S. experiences a mental condition in any given year. As the epidemic of mental disorders threatens to engulf many more, those affected are resorting to holistic treatment approaches like meditation and massage therapy. In the following post, we’ll explain how massage is being used to treat psychiatric disorders and the resulting benefits.