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Rub Your Pains Away with Pregnancy Massage

Posted in Babies & Children, Massage, Wellness, tagged , , , , , , on March 16, 2010 | 6 Comments »

When I was pregnant I had great help of essential oils and massage for all the little things that come: prevention of stretch-marks (4 children later and not one mark!) Nausea, lower back pain, leg-cramps, swelling and of course the Grand Finale: Birth!!! I gave birth to my last child at home in the living-room [...]

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ESSENTIAL OIL & SCENT HISTORY part 4

Posted in Aromatherapy, Massage, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

During the 16:th to 18:th centuries the art of distilling plants had grown to become an every-day matter. Every mansion had its own distillery and the pharmacies of the time distilled essential oils for medicinal purposes. The doctor would make out a recipe, and the pharmacies would blend the medicines. In this time herbal medicine [...]

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Massage therapy and stress and anxiety in children

Posted in Babies & Children, Massage, tagged , , , , , on August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »

A study conducted at University of Miami Medical School, Florida, USA, revealed that massage may offer considerable help for children suffering from stress-related disorders. A 30-minute back massage was given daily for a 5-day period to 52 children who were hospitalized as suffering from depression and adjustment disorders. Subjective assessments were made by the children [...]

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MASSAGE & PREMATURE BABIES

Posted in Babies & Children, Massage, tagged , , , , on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Explosion of narcotic and alcohol abuse in the USA has been accompanied by a surge of premature cocaine-exposed babies who often suffer post-natal complications and exhibit poor co-ordination and motor skills along with increased stress behaviour during infancy. Researchers at the department of Pediatrics at the University Miami School of Medicine studied the effects [...]

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MASSAGE

Posted in Massage, tagged , , , , on June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Massage must be one of the most contraversial topics around; everybody seems to have some kind of thought or emotion about massage, be it positive or negative. A big part of my work is massage; not only doing it, but training others and spreading the knowledge about the benefits of using massage in many places, [...]

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