Does massage get rid of back pain? A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine said it can. (And that is no surprise to me!)
The study compared patients in three groups:
1. Conventional medical treatment of medicine and exercises
2. Structural massage (deeper pressure)
3. Swedish massage (more gentle form of massage)
Guess who won? 🙂
1. 4% improvement in back pain for Continue reading Massage For Achey Back – Natural Pain Relief?
You can get rid of upper back pain, lower back pain and neck pain naturally with Complementary Alternative Medicine (also known as CAM.) 🙂
It’s called ‘complementary’ because it can be used along with conventional medical treatment.
There are a lot of reasons why CAM helps and research backs it up.
An interesting study from the National Institutes of Health (the United States government’s health arm) tells about the benefits of massage, chiropractic and acupuncture (3 types of CAM) for neck and back pain.
And an article I just read indicates that people would have even more neck and back pain relief Continue reading Massage Can Get Rid Of Upper Back Pain, Lower Back Pain and Neck Pain
Massage is wonderful for relieving all kinds of back pain and I recommend therapeutic massage for almost every type of physical pain.
Why? Because it works!
Massage is old medicine. Very old. It’s used all over the world for a wide variety of ailments as a medical treatment. I even met a doctor from a European country who was trained do to massage in medical school.
But sometimes when you go to a massage therapist your back pain doesn’t go away.
Maybe it feels better for a short time, or even just while the therapist is working on your painful area. (Or not.) But, it comes right back. Or, it is back within just a few hours.
When that has happened with any of my clients, I told them what that meant.
That meant I was wrong about the cause of their symptom (their pain.) It means I didn’t work on the muscles or soft tissue that was the true cause of their pain. That means we have to try again.
You see, there can be more than one cause.
The unfortunate thing is, many massage therapists only know how to do a relaxation-type massage. Relaxation or stress-reduction massages can be really great, but…
When you have pain, a relaxation massage probably won’t give you much benefit. In fact, you may be very disappointed.
So, if you have upper back pain and want relief you will have to find a massage professional who “knows his or her stuff.” Someone who can Continue reading Why Didn’t Therapeutic Massage Get Rid Of Your Upper Back Pain or Knot?