Most of us will have heard friends or family say that they suffer from increased aches and pains in muscles and joints during cold, wet and unsettled weather, and some have personal experience of this. Others dismiss it as an old wives’ tale, but it’s a claim that pops up …
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‘The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence about the care of individual patients’Sackett et al (1997) Massage techniques have been developed and passed on as part of an oral tradition for millennia. But it is only in the last few decades that research, using sophisticated methods of …
Recent research suggests that massage is beneficial in reducing inflammation. In summary, when administered to skeletal muscle that has been acutely damaged through exercise, massage therapy appears to be clinically beneficial by reducing inflammation and promoting mitochondrial bio-genesis. Research Article Buck Institute News To a large extent we have to …
Evidence based practice requires healthcare providers to include research inquiry and evidence into their clinical work. The research is proving to be exciting but tends to be overblown and overstated in the press. As the profession moves towards an evidence based approach it is important that therapists distinguish between stronger …