Archive for March 2018

Why Is Massage and Alternative Medicine Becoming More Popular?

Many are looking for methods of healing that don’t involve surgery or pills with side-effects. Alternative therapies (such as massage) are becoming more popular. More and more therapies are available and are becoming more accessible. Alternative therapies (including massage) are helping people around the world to over combat pain, stress and disease. They are vastly…

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Categories of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Massage is often referred as a CAM. Although hard to categorise in any meaningful way, CAM can be broken down into four groups: – Spiritual – includes spiritual healing and Reiki – Psychological – includes hypnosis and NLP – Physical – includes osteopathy, chiropractic, massage therapy and acupuncture. – Nutritional – includes nutritionalism and herbalism…

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Massage – Alternative Medicine?

Massage is amongst the oldest forms of medical intervention there is. Although it predates conventional medicine by thousands of years, it is still categorised as “complementary of alternative”. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can be defined a “medical interventions which are commonly not taught at medical schools and not generally provided at hospitals”. Although it…

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