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Enhancing Health With Massage Research
... two decades, researchers at the Touch Research Institute (TRI) at the University of Miami School of Medicine have documented the specific ... Established in 1992 with grant funding by Johnson & Johnson, TRI was the first center of its kind devoted to the study of the effects of ...
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Children and Massage
... So says Tiffany Field, PhD, of the Touch Research Institute (TRI) in Miami, Florida. Field and her associates at TRI have worked diligently over the past decade to prove the benefits of ...
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Supporting Survival
... results of several studies from Touch Research Institute (TRI) in Miami, Fla., showing positive effects of massage therapy on immune ... virus (HIV). Similar results have also been documented by TRI researchers for breast cancer patients, expanding the potential application ...
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Moderate vs. Light Pressure in Massage
... generated by researchers at the Touch Research Institute (TRI) in Miami, Fla. Their investigations cover a wide range of medical ... the significantly positive findings for moderate pressure. TRI’s director, Tiffany Field, Ph.D., says, “The reason it seems moderate ...
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Child Development
... alternative therapy research, the Touch Research Institute (TRI) at the University of Miami School of Medicine has conducted a series of ... use with a wide range of conditions. 3 The results of TRI’s massage research indicate significant influence on medical conditions ...
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Massage and PMS
... the newest studies to come out of Touch Research Institute (TRI) in Miami has shown promising results in the use of massage to attenuate ... of PDD. 7 It is this latter category of debilitation that TRI chose to focus on for the massage study. To meet criteria for PDD as laid ...
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Are We Forcing a Square Peg into a Round Hole?
... Dr. Maria Hernandez-Reif of the Touch Research Institute (TRI) in Miami, Fla., about the current status of massage therapy research. TRI researchers have been at the forefront in providing sound clinical research ...
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Boosting Immunity Against HIV
... Over the past decade, teams at Touch Research Institute(TRI) in Miami, Fla., have conducted several studies investigating the effects ... and Immunity To better understand the results of the TRI studies, let’s take a brief look at the effects of HIV on the body’s ...
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Massage Medicine
... at the University of Miami’s Touch Research Institute (TRI), researchers have found improved weight gain and development in preterm ... With more than one hundred research studies completed, TRI has also found massage to have positive effects on children with asthma ...
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Under the Microscope
... designation from the Touch Research Institute (TRI) of Miami, Fla. 5 Single-dose effects are those that affect ... in comparison groups). Although a number of individual TRI studies have documented cortisol decrease, this effect did not reach ... to researchers working with limited resources.” 13 TRI has been a leader in massage research, producing a large proportion of the ...