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Nail Knowledge
By Staff Originally published in Body Sense magazine, Spring/Summer 2007. Fingernails can ... overall health. White or yellowed nails, separation of the nail from the bed, depressions or pits, horizontal indentations, and more ...
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What's Next Is What's Now
... pathological condition or concept that is connected to the overall theme of the current issue of Massage & Bodywork . In this ... learn about the amazing regenerative capacity of the human body and exciting to follow how our efforts can recruit and influence those ...
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Dual practices
... more than $14 billion on facial treatments in 2006, 1 and the number of estheticians doubling between 2001 and 2005, 2 skin care is ... concern over whether their scope of practice covers them for body wraps, massage below the neck, waxing, herbal facials, etc.” Overt ...
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Pregnancy Precautions
... can do to help mom feel relaxed and pretty while she rides the hormonal roller coaster. Start With the Basics Pregnant woman have ... Erupting Skin During the first trimester, a woman’s body produces more androgenic hormones—those with male-type ...
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Essential Skills: Massage in an Orthopedic Context
... a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” In the context of health concerns, this means that the tools most easily available ... about muscles; therefore, when something goes wrong in the body, muscles are naturally the first place they look. When a client is in ...
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Indian Head Massage
... India’s rich culture. It’s held a special place both in the “kitchen table wisdom” of local Hindu mothers and in the medical bag of ... particular problem before it “settles in the body.” Indian head massage is utilized in a similar fashion. The intent of ...
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Massage and the Cancer Patient
... Like most attorneys, Jo Anne Adlerstein is a fiend for the kind of research that can make or break a case. So when she was diagnosed ... she could about how to fight the disease that invaded her body. “What I found is that despite the fact that I live near New York ...
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The Table and the Mat
... massage and massage therapists and bodyworkers need yoga. The two arts are sisters. Therapists’ knowledge of yoga informs their creativity as bodyworkers, while their knowledge of body mechanics enhances their own yoga practice and teaching. For their ...
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Appreciating Clients’ Health Challenges
... When people with chronic diseases cross the threshold of a massage therapist’s office, they bring with them hopes of ... improves blood circulation and removes toxins from my body.” With research like that above demonstrating the effectiveness of ...
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Soma
... a 10-session bodywork protocol with his mentor Ida Rolf in the 1970s, he knew he wanted to take it further than the physiology that was ... him insight into the integration that could happen when body, mind, and spirit met. While Rolf, with whom he was teaching and ...