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From wired.com/playbook/2012/01/more-evidence-supports-barefoot-running If you’re a runner, start striking with your forefoot. And wear those goofy minimalist shoes while you’re at it. Your body will thank you. Those are the findings of a pair of studies by Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He found runners who use a forefoot strike…

“A Comparison of the Effects of 2 Types of Massage and Usual Care on Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized, Controlled Trial,” by Daniel C. Cherkin, et al., Annals of Internal Medicine 155(1), pp. 1-9. Read online at annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=747008. See also a detailed follow-up study “Structural Integration as an Adjunct to Outpatient Rehabilitation for Chronic…

From Running Times: By Julia Lucas You’ve got this injury you just can’t shake. You take time off. You ice and stretch and do all the right things but you’re still limping home. You spend too much time trying to articulate your particular brand of hurt to those loved ones who still put up with…

from www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5272954.htm New Book, “Figuring Out Fibromyalgia,” Offers Scientific Evidence on Cause of Fibromyalgia Pain Ginevra Liptan, M.D., who developed fibromyalgia while a medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine, shows in her new book, “Figuring Out Fibromyalgia: Current Science and the Most Effective Treatments” (Visceral Books 2011), scientific evidence that dysfunction in the…

From University of Manchester: Scientists have discovered how tendons – the fibrous tissue that connects muscle to bone – become damaged through injury or the ageing process in what could lead to new treatments for people with tendon problems. The University of Manchester team, working with colleagues at Glasgow University, have been investigating ‘adhesions’, which…

From Get Healthy: By Angela Shawn-Chi Lu Sitting in a hallway of the Cortiva Massage Therapy Center in downtown Chicago, Jennifer Kaminski appeared ebullient – ready to take on anything in fact. Few would guess she had just spent an hour in a dimly lit room, relaxing on her back, in almost complete silence, while…

from money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2010/12/06/best-careers-2011-massage-therapist: “Best Careers 2011: Massage Therapist” As one of the 50 Best Careers of 2011, this should have strong growth over the next decade By Alexis Grant The rundown: Massage therapists may be good with their hands, but most also have a knack for business. You’re likely to work for yourself, and your success…

From New York Times: By Austin Considine [Read about my Rolfing work at structuralintegrationniagara.com.] A FORMER dancer of 14 years, Anna Zahn is in touch with her body. To gain more flexibility, and to counteract some of the strain from dancing, she has tried a number of remedies: Reiki, acupuncture, yoga. But she still felt…

From New York Times: By Roni Caryn Rabin Does a good massage do more than just relax your muscles? To find out, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recruited 53 healthy adults and randomly assigned 29 of them to a 45-minute session of deep-tissue Swedish massage and the other 24 to a session…

From Suite 101: By Noreen Kassem Can’t touch your toes with your fingertips? A lack of trunk muscle flexibility may be a sign of artery stiffness and heart disease. Here is why stretching is important. Muscle flexibility is usually a sign of physical fitness; however, new studies indicate there may also be a correlation between…