The new research findings are wildly supportive of massage therapy but what's even more amazing is that this story has been the number one "most popular emailed article" on The New York Times website for the past three days. I say move over tea party and midterm elections coverage!
This is great news for the healing arts community because the study is obviously resonating with the general public while clearly stating the benefits of a single massage session such as increasing immune function and decreasing the stress hormone cortisol.
The research was sponsored by the NIH/NCCAM and you've got to love the quote from the lead author, Dr. Mark Hyman Rapaport, Chairman of Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai, who said the findings were "very, very intriguing and very, very exciting and I'm a skeptic."
The New York Times articleThe Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
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