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Massage & Cycling
... and otherwise — are learning the lessons of massage for injury prevention, enhanced performance and faster recovery. Cycling is a ...
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Active Isolated Stretching: The Mattes Method, Part 2
... in four different areas: general health enhancement; injury prevention; pain and injury treatment; and improvement of degenerative ...
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Nurses’ Injuries
... musculoskeletal disorders that affect nurses, low-back injury is far and away the most common complaint. A recent study found that 60 ... Sadly, this means the nation loses more quality nurses. Prevention has not been a focus for facilities, government oversight agencies, ...
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Healing Triumphs Over Domestic Violence
... epidemic is societal. Battering is the most common cause of injury to women — more frequent than car accidents and muggings. Nearly 30% ... program. The National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center published a report on reducing post-traumatic stress ...
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Knee Deep in Pain
... health news these days (from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). 1 Knee and hip joint replacements are now a common event on ... Citing positive results from a study on spinal cord injury (Nayak, 2001), the team report states, “Massage therapy may diminish ...
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Resolving Issues for Wheelchair-bound Clients
... a wheelchair because of cerebral palsy, HIV or an athletic injury, proper positioning and massage therapy may help ease the associated ... in the wheelchair is probably most important for the prevention of repetitive strain for manual wheelchair users. A combination of ...
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Weekend Warriors
... up with the stretching program on their own. Wynn sees injury prevention as a primary factor in using massage for performance enhancement. ...
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Weight Loss and Bodywork
... many subtle improvements working together, including better injury prevention and healing. Jeff Wooten, founder of YourBodyMechanic.com , ...
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The Wellness Factor in Spas
... The wellness center of today is about more than prevention. It’s about living life at optimum capacity — body, mind and ... modalities, Trieste says, “is ergonomically apt for less injury and also for more interest. You keep having fun. A lot of people think ...
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Redesigning Movement
... and often felt in our own bodies. You’ve learned effective prevention strategies in the previous articles. Now we’ll look at the ... includes factors such as eyestrain, poor posture, a neck injury like whiplash, or even conditions such as temporomandibular joint ...