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Massage Therapy Shown To Be the Best Choice of Treatment for Lower Back Pain
Massage therapists often gush about the therapeutic properties of massage therapy, saying it can lower levels of anxiety and stress, improve wellness, and even reduce pain. And for the most part, they’re right.
Indeed, many academic studies have demonstrated the therapeutic properties of massage, but these studies are usually small in their number of participants, and often massage is indicated as a complementary treatment, for example, as a non-invasive pain reliever for cancer patients. A study in the July 5 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine is therefore a breakthrough for massage therapists as it concludes that massage isn’t just a good complementary therapy, rather, it is the best choice for treating lower back pain.
The study, titled A Comparison of the Effects of 2 Types of Massage and Usual Care on Chronic Low Back Pain, is so newsworthy because it concludes that general massage therapy is more effective than standard medical treatment when dealing with back pain. This means that a weekly massage can do more to ease chronic back pain than painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs (think Advil) and physical therapy. Read the rest of this entry »
The Effectiveness of Occupational Therapy For Your Loved One Suffering From Alzheimer’s
What Can We Do To Improve Quality of Life of Our Beloved-one?
Occupational Therapy is one of the aids to make life more pleasant for people with Alzheimer’s Disease or another type of Dementia.
De side effects of this misery also include a social aspect. The sufferers from Alzheimer’s and other Dementia become more and more dependent of others: their caregivers. The patients lose their own initiative and are getting problems in participation in social activities.
The drugs available for Alzheimer’s patients only work very temporarily and will have a limited efficacy. The effects are very different from patient to patient.
One of the things we can do is providing some Occupational Therapy, like training to do simple things around the house.
There are several researches that found out that non-pharmacological treatment could have the same or better effects as the effects of drug-treatments for people with dementia. Read the rest of this entry »