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Water Is Water. . . Or Is It?

By Sharon Truelove All of us know that we HAVE to have water to live. Three days without it can lead to death. Our bodies are approximately 70% water. We lose about 10 cups of water a day through...

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Ladies & Gentlemen, Rev Up Your Engines!

By Laura Gordon We all have them – days when our get up and go has got up and went. Somehow we manage to muddle through with eyes glazed over, attention span nonexistent and energy level set at zero,...

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Best Back Stretch!

By Matthew Cockrum If you have ever had any lower back problems then please keep reading and take this technique into consideration. This technique has helped me with my many lower back issues. I had...

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Depression, Can Massage Help?

By Latasha Sampson and Ross Ashcraft Massage not only feels good, but it also helps to reduce depression, stress, and anxiety. During a massage session your body releases different hormones that have a...

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Happy Feet!

By Sharon Truelove Most people love to have their feet worked on. It is a technique that most massage therapists learn early on to perfect, as it tends to result in good tips. It’s easy to take a...

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Make Your Own

By Laura Gordon It never occurred to me to make my own body lotions and creams until I began reading about the harmful carcinogenic effects of using petrochemicals on the body. Our skin is our largest...

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Yoga Takes on Back Pain

By Carolyn A. Smith & Ross Ashcraft Yoga is beneficial in so many ways.  One of the best uses to put yoga is in the maintenance of back health and chronic back pain.   Yoga helps chronic back pain...

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Women Can Be Deep

By Monica Bingley & Ross Ashcraft 80% of massage therapists are women but many veteran spa-goers actually favor male massage therapists. This, according to The American Association of Massage...

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Let It Be

By Sharon Truelove “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom, let it be. . .” John Lennon In this fast-pasted world we live in, it can be difficult to...

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AAAaaahhhh Spring

by Laura Gordon AAahh, spring is here! For some that translates into AAAAAhhhhchoooo. It’s hay fever season – that means headaches, watery eyes, sinus congestion, a runny nose, and just plain old...

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Who Doesn’t Love Hand Massage?

By Crystal Houston and Ross Ashcraft Our hands take a lot of abuse. We use them for everything.  Massage therapist use them for almost every technique, and we are the worst taking the time to give back...

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Let’s Wrap It Up!

By Sharon Truelove The challenges of avoiding injury in the process of stretching a client that may be twice my size motivated me to find and use techniques that protect myself, and also create a...

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It’s a Matter of Balance

By Laura Gordon If you suffer from what you think is lower back pain, it may not be your back that is the problem, and if you are like a lot of people, you will plod on waiting for it to go away...

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Night-Time Leg Cramps

By Sharon Truelove Do Charley Horses in your legs rudely interrupt your sleep at night? Most people have experienced at least once in their life being woke up by the unrelenting pain of a charley horse...

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Help my Hurting Heel!!!

By Misty Jurgens Barker Everyone has those days that their feet hurt so badly.  Sometimes you might feel as if you just can’t take one more step.  If this is how you feel, it could very well be that...

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Pain is a 4 Letter Word!

By Laura Gordon It causes a great deal of pain.  Let’s see if you can figure out what condition it is.  Perhaps you have it? If not, see who quickly you can guess. This pain  comes and goes and...

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I’m Late, I’m Late For a Very Important Date!!

By Angela Adams We have all been there.  We are stuck in traffic; the kids aren’t cooperating: the dog had a potty problem all over the house…and we are now LATE.  We are stressed out, angry, weepy,...

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Massage Takes on Trauma

By Melissa Satterwhite and Ross Ashcraft When I consider the people I know that have witnessed trauma, my first thought for helping them was never massage.  Honestly, massage was not even second or...

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Massage, I Love Thee….Let Me Count the Ways

By Q The ancient way to ease all that ales you is as simple as touch. Massage helps with many conditions such as premature infants weight gain to lowering high blood pressure.  Here are 5 things that...

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Massage Takes on High Cholesterol!

By Sharon Truelove How does massage help? Stress produces change in the body’s chemistry. Keeping the autonomic system on overdrive constantly, causes the liver to dump too much cholesterol into the...

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