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Research indicates that 1 in 3 Americans use alternative health care modalities. This volume presents results in areas of massage therapy research including studies of massage for: stress (post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, depression, abuse), spinal cord injuries, enhancing growth (pregnancy and infancy), pain reduction (rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, migraine, and fibromyalgia), pediatrics, the elderly, increasing employee satisfaction (chair massage), enhancing cognition (alertness, autism), and/or immunity (HIV, cancer). By collecting these papers into one volume, the editor provides a starting point for conversations within the therapeutic massage community.Product Identifiers
PublisherElsevier Health Sciences
ISBN-139780723432173
eBay Product ID (ePID)90218962
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SubjectMedicine
Publication Year2002
Number of Pages232 Pages
Publication NameMassage Therapy: the Evidence for Practice
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhysiology
AuthorGrant Jewell Rich
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorGrant Jewell Rich