{"id":444,"date":"2013-03-05T20:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/?p=444"},"modified":"2013-03-05T20:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:16:32","slug":"massage-is-a-healthy-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/general\/massage-is-a-healthy-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Massage is a Healthy Choice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-content\/uploads\/540793_10151468309159840_798502222_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-445\" title=\"Regular massage for a healthier life!\" src=\"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-content\/uploads\/540793_10151468309159840_798502222_n-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-content\/uploads\/540793_10151468309159840_798502222_n-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-content\/uploads\/540793_10151468309159840_798502222_n.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Massage can have significant benefit for muscle pain and is a drug free healthy choice!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I used to consider the occasional massage a blissful, self-indulgent luxury. But as I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve become more and more convinced that regular massages are an important prescription for physical and mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there is a growing body of research confirming that massage can be good medicine. \u201cWe now know that massage therapy is not just for pleasure, but has significant psychological, physiological and biochemical effects that enhance health,\u201d says Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami Medical School, which has conducted more than 100 studies\u00a0showing that massage\u2019s benefits can include positive effects on depression and anxiety, sleep, stress hormones, immunity and pain relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have enough data to say the evidence is there that this really does help with back pain\u00a0in particular,\u201d confirms physician Josephine Briggs, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. She also cites a study\u00a0published this year in the online journal PLoS One that found that patients with osteoarthritis of the knee who got a weekly 60-minute Swedish massage \u2014 a popular, gentle type of bodywork that may include kneading, pressing or stroking the muscles \u2014 experienced significant pain reduction and improved function compared with those who received standard care with no bodywork; the gains persisted even after treatment ended. By Carolyn Butler, July 30, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massage can have significant benefit for muscle pain and is a drug free healthy choice! I used to consider the occasional massage a blissful, self-indulgent luxury. But as I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve become more and more convinced that regular massages are an important prescription for physical and mental well-being. In fact, there is a growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/openskycenter.com\/healthyliving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}