Christopher A. Moyer's Blog (2)

Back in May 2010, one of the presentations I gave at the Highlighting Massage Therapy in Complementary and Integrative Medicine Conference in Seattle gave an overview of my research group's work to definitively measure the effect of massage therapy on cortisol (the stress hormone produced by the cortex of the adrenal glands).  There were a couple of persons at the conference who wished to attend a simultaneous session and who asked if I could later make my slides available to them, so I…

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A little while ago I wrote an editorial in the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork in which I coined the term "Affective Massage Therapy." The editorial, as well as all IJTMB content, is freely available online; see either:



http://www.ijtmb.org/index.php/ijtmb/article/view/30/31



or



http://www.ijtmb.org/index.php/ijtmb/article/view/30/39



to read the editorial on Affective Massage Therapy.



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