Washington Post article on the significant benefit of regular massage

“I used to consider the occasional massage a blissful, self-indulgent luxury. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more and more convinced that regular rubdowns are an important prescription for physical and mental well-being.

In fact, there is a growing body of research confirming that massage can be good medicine. “We now know that massage therapy is not just for pleasure, but has significant psychological, physiological and biochemical effects that enhance health,” says Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami Medical School, which has conducted more than 100 studies showing that massage’s benefits can include positive effects on depression and anxiety, sleep, stress hormones, immunity and pain relief.”

To read the full article go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/massage-can-have-significant-benefit-for-muscle-pain-and-other-ills-studies-find/2012/07/30/gJQAM92uKX_story.html