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MUITIPLE SCLEROSIS

Hernandez-Reif, M., Field, T., Field, T., & Theakston, H. (1998). Multiple sclerosis patients benefit from massage therapy.Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 2, 168-174.

Twenty-four adults with multiple sclerosis were randomly assigned to a standard medical treatment control group or a massage therapy group that received 45-minute massages twice a week for 5 weeks. The massage group had lower anxiety and less depressed mood immediately following the massage sessions and, by the end of the study, they had improved self-esteem, better body image and image of disease progression and enhanced social functional status.

Social Rejection causes Inflammation!?

Very interesting research about how bullying and social rejection causes inflammation in the body!? Sticks and Stones do brake your bones but the words will cause you inflammation!

http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2010/10/06/sensitivity-to-social-rejection-and-inflammatory-responses-to-stress/

Hummus good or bad?

http://ezinearticles.com/?Hummus-Good-Or-Bad?&id=4971422

If you want to think like God, think of a life without limits - Freddy Rivera

Massage and Stress

"Often times people are stressed in our culture. Stress-related disorders make up between 80-and-90 percent of the ailments that bring people to family-practice physicians. What they require is someone to listen, someone to touch them, someone to care. That does not exist in modern medicine.
One of the complaints heard frequently is that physicians don't touch their patients any more. Touch just isn't there. Years ago massage was a big part of nursing. There was so much care, so much touch, so much goodness conveyed through massage. Now nurses for the most part are as busy as physicians. They're writing charts, dealing with insurance notes, they're doing procedures and often there is no room for massage any more.

I believe massage therapy is absolutely key in the healing process not only in the hospital environment but because it relieves stress, it is obviously foundational in the healing process any time and anywhere."

Joan Borysenko (www.joanborysenko.com), a medical scientist, licensed clinical psychologist, and co founder of the Mind/Body Clinic at Harvard Medical School, had this to say when interviewed by the Massage Journal, in 1999