What diseases or ailments can massage therapy treat?
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Johns Hopkins Medicine answered:Massage therapy has been show to help patients with the following problems:
- Mental health: Reduces symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress disorders
- Cancer: Promotes relaxation response and enhances coping mechanisms in patients undergoing cancer treatment
- Pain control: In areas that include fibromyalgia, arthritis, sciatica (and other back pains), headaches, and childbirth
- Chronic lung disease: Increases respiratory function
- Digestive: As an add-on therapy for chronic constipation
- Injuries: Fights overuse and repetitive strain injuries, workplace and athletic trauma, whiplash
Note: If you're receiving conventional therapies for any of these problems, do not abandon them in favor of massage therapy. Massage is better utilized as an add-on to any current therapy your doctor has recommended.
Massage therapy has been show to help patients with the following problems: Mental health: Reduces symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress disorders Cancer: Promotes relaxation response and enhances coping mechanisms in patients undergoing... More -
Dr. Mosaraf Ali answered:If you have arthritis or fibromyalgia, there's a surprising treatment you may want to consider: massage therapy. It doesn't just feel great -- it can also help relieve several chronic conditions. To find out more, watch this video featuring integrative medicine expert and Dr. Oz Show guest Mosaraf Ali.
If you have arthritis or fibromyalgia, there's a surprising treatment you may want to consider: massage therapy. It doesn't just feel great -- it can also help relieve several chronic conditions. To find out more, watch this video featuring... More
