Massage Therapy can help many conditions and injuries.
These are the conditions that we have the most evidence supporting massage therapy as an intervention/treatment for:
- PAIN
- Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Headache
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Anxiety and depression
- PTSD
- Substance use recovery
- Rehabilitation for athletes/physical training
- Ergonomics and computer/work related injuries
- Joint replacement recovery and pre-surgery maintenance care
- Scar management
- Cancer management
- Maternity and Newborn care
Here is a partial list that will be growing as we get more research. The clinical evidence is already there, with many seeing significant results from massage therapy done by an advanced trained massage therapist.
- Achilles Tendonitis or other injuries
- Adhesive Capsulitis – Frozen Shoulder, Frozen Hip
- Alzheimer’s – helps calm patients
- Ankle Sprain/Strains
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Back Pain
- Bell Palsy
- Bursitis – shoulder, hip
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Chronic Pain Syndromes
- Computer Stress
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Depression
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis)
- Golfer’s Elbow
- Hamstring Injuries
- Headaches
- Herniated Discs
- HIV/AIDS
- Jaw pain and dysfuntion
- IT Band Syndrome
- Knee Pain and Injuries
- Low Back Pain
- Lymphedema
- Migraines
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain, Acute, Chronic
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sacroiliac (SI) Joint Dysfunction
- Sciatica
- Spinal Stenosis
- Stress
- Temporal Mandibular Pain and Dysfunction
- Tendonitis
- Tennis Elbow
- Thoracic Outlet
- Upper Back Pain