Comments on: Thoughts on Therapeutic Massage https://www.findtouch.com/blog/thoughts-on-therapeutic-massage/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:54:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.10 By: Anonymous https://www.findtouch.com/blog/thoughts-on-therapeutic-massage/#comment-163 Sun, 29 May 2011 21:56:22 +0000 http://www.findtouch.com/blog/?p=148#comment-163 You Go Girl!!!

]]> By: Heather https://www.findtouch.com/blog/thoughts-on-therapeutic-massage/#comment-161 Wed, 18 May 2011 20:29:48 +0000 http://www.findtouch.com/blog/?p=148#comment-161 The length of the session doesn’t affect the healing power of massage. When the massage is done by a quality therapist who knows how to provide the best treatment in a set amount of time you can get a great massage during a 30 minutes session. Time management is an important skill for all therapists to learn. Without it you’ll find yourself running over time during every session.

]]> By: Eric Brown https://www.findtouch.com/blog/thoughts-on-therapeutic-massage/#comment-159 Mon, 16 May 2011 13:25:26 +0000 http://www.findtouch.com/blog/?p=148#comment-159 I agree with you: Treatment length really has no bearing on effectiveness of your massage.

One of the most significant studies in the past ten years was a meta-analysis of massage research data. The idea is that you filter all existing studies to find all the ones with controls and that follow proper protocol. Then they combine the data from the filtered studies to get a large sample which makes the results more accurate than any individual study.

http://www.uwstout.edu/faculty/moyerc/upload/MT-meta-analysis-PB2004.pdf

Anyways, the researchers found that the benefits were not dependent on any time variable, that is, it didn’t matter if it was a short massage or long massage, the effects measured were the same.

So there is no reason why someone can’t be effective with even a short massage, like chair massage.

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