Every April, Boston-area massage therapists see more than the usual amount of people with strained soleus muscles. This injury can be quite painful and last longer than most muscular injuries, and it often occurs in marathoners.

While there are lots of home remedies on the internet to relieve the symptoms of colic in your baby, massage is one scientifically proven way you can bring them relief, while also creating important parent-child bonds.

Use this flowchart and corresponding glossary to learn about massage and bodywork for the first time, or to branch out and try something new from the hundreds of touch therapy options.
 

There is no cure for fibromyalgia. Yet, despite the pain and frustration of this condition, some have found relief under the gentle hands of a massage therapist or bodyworker.