HEALTH & WELLNESS, WALL STREET JOURNAL March 13, 2012 Don’t Call It Pampering: Massage Wants to Be Medicine By ANDREA PETERSEN While massage may have developed a reputation as a decadent treat for people who love pampering, new studies are showing it has a wide variety of tangible health benefits. Research over the past couple…
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Research report Muscle fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) and its response to a manual therapeutic approach: A pilot study Raymond N. Perrina, Jim David Richardsa, V. Pentreathb and David F. Percyc a) Allied Health Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK b) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Salford, Salford…
Obesity ‘damages children’s feet’
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From the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists’ Annual Conference in UK, as reported by the BBC: Quote:
High heel horrors! The hidden cost to your body of those crucial extra inches
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By Pat Hagan More women are wearing higher heels, and for longer, and experts are increasingly concerned about the long-term damage they are doing to their feet. Recent research suggests that up to a third of women suffer permanent problems as a result of their prolonged wearing of ‘killer heels’, ranging from hammer toes and…
Top Athletes Enhance Performance with Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment
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CHICAGO, March 1, 2002-Olympic speed skater, Apolo Anton Ohno received osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) prior to last week’s 1,500 meter Short Track race in which he won the gold medal. After Ohno suffered a gash on his leg requiring stitches during a collision in a previous race, Lawrence Lavine, D.O., an osteopathic physician (D.O.) and…
What is Osteopathy?
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Osteopathy is a safe, effective, hands-on, natural solution to the treatment and management of acute or chronic pain. Osteopaths are skilled and extremely well educated health care professionals who are expertly trained to recognise and treat many causes of pain, from muscles to ligaments and nerves to joints.