This particular type of massage is very comforting, soothing, and useful when recovering from an illness or in chronic pain.
It consists of soothing and rubbing strokes and is widely used in conventional and complementary medicine. It encourages recovery from heart attacks and is used in palliative care in certain types of cancer.
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Therapeutic Massage is especially useful in treating the following health conditions:
anxiety, back pain, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, depression, digestive problems (such as coeliac disease, colitis, constipation, crohn’s disease, diarrhoea, IBS, indigestion, peptic ulcers), headaches, high blood pressure, insomnia, menstrual problems (such as dysmenorrhoea, endometriosis, menopause, menorrhagia, PMS), sinusitis, stress.
