The Benefits of Massage

A lot is made of the potential benefits of massage. Unfortunately, the camp has established firm roots to a lot of other pseudoscience. There seems to be legitimate benefits to getting massage, even beyond the fact that they make us feel good. Let's do the good science to see how we can leverage massage to help the people who would benefit from it the most. And booooo pseudoscience.

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Links and References:

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifespan-perspectives/202201/massage-therapy-mental-health
• https://www.nuhs.edu/4-mental-benefits-of-massage-therapy/
• https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/massage-for-depression-anxiety-and-stress
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6715325/
• https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/massage
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Qais-Gasibat/publication/318929943_Determining_the_Benefits_of_Massage_Mechanisms_A_Review_of_Literature/links/59862ea5aca27266ad9f7178/Determining-the-Benefits-of-Massage-Mechanisms-A-Review-of-Literature.pdf?_sg%5B0%5D=started_experiment_milestone&origin=journalDetail
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1836955315000582
• https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2011.0643
• https://www.painscience.com/articles/massage-therapy-side-effects.php
• https://www.grandeprairiephysiotherapy.com/what-are-the-cons-and-pros-of-massage-therapy
• https://www.benimassage.com/risks-of-massage/
• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/deep-tissue-massage-benefits
• https://massageluxe.com/franchise_blog/spa-owner-salary/#:~:text=Recent%20research%20indicates%20massage%20therapy%20is%20an,industry%20projections%20that%20were%20set%20in%202005. 
• https://www.concorde.edu/blog/rich-history-massage-therapy 
• https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-increase-oxytocin#massage 
• Rapaport, M. H., Schettler, P. J., Larson, E. R., Carroll, D., Sharenko, M., Nettles, J., & Kinkead, B. (2018). Massage Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders. Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing), 16(1), 24–31. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20170043
• Müller-Oerlinghausen, B., & Eggart, M. (2020). Touch Research-Quo Vadis? A Plea for High-Quality Clinical Trials. Brain sciences, 11(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11010025

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