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Health Related Topics

Pain Management

Massage Therapy Has a Role in Pain Management -The January/February 2003 issue of Practical Pain Management magazine includes an article by former AMTA President Brenda L. Griffith encouraging pain management specialists to work with massage therapists to help alleviate the pain of their patients. Research has shown that massage is an effective part of pain management for a variety of patients.

The Power of Touch for Pain Relief - a basic fact sheet

American Chronic Pain Association

American Pain Society

American Academy of Pain Management

Pain Database from the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder:  Why Massage Works

This article by Heyward Ewart, III, Ph.D. first appeared in the May, 2002 issue of e-touch, a massage newsletter

Infant Massage

• "Touch Early and Often", Time, July 27, 1998

• International Association of Infant Massage, 800.248.5432

• Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators, www.alace.org

• International Loving Touch Foundation, Inc., 503.253.8482

Onsite Massage

• Getting the Message about Workplace Massage

• Workloss Data Institute

Fibromyalgia

National Fibromyalgia Research Association

MSN Health/WebMD

National Women's Health Center

American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association, Inc.

Miscellaneous

Massage therapists have high prevalence of hand dermatitis

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