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Medical researchers around the globe are exploring the healing powers of massage. Therapists already knew that the ancient healing modality of massage was an effective way to alleviate a wide variety of ailments. Now Western science is catching up, as researchers deliver formal studies on how massage can heal. This blog lists just a handful of the findings regarding massage.

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A massage is a great idea any time, right? Wrong. There are certain times to avoid getting a massage, as any Portland massage therapist can attest.

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鈥�You are ill. Don鈥檛 risk passing on your sickness. Stay home and rest until your symptoms clear up. When you鈥檙e sick, the body already has enough 鈥渨ork鈥� to do鈥攏amely fighting infection and resting. 精东传媒 may actually make that work harder, by stimulating tissue when rest is really the best medicine.

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During the winter, the blues strikes about 10% among the general American population; that number rises to 20-30% in northern latitudes such as Portland (). About 6-8% of Americans and 5-9% of Portlanders will develop a more serious form of cyclic depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD is triggered by the scarcity of natural light the fall and winter.

Symptoms of SAD include:
鈥揊atigue during the day.
鈥揇ecreased ability to focus; feeling like you鈥檙e 鈥渋n a fog鈥� mentally.
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鈥揇ecreased libido.
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