Children and Massage Therapy

Why Children Need Massage Therapy:

Good Posture
Pain Relief & Prevention: headaches, muscle pain (now and later)
Healthy, injury-free participation in sports, gymnastics and dance
Stress Reduction: emotional stability, strengthened immunity
Self-image: body awareness, self-confidence, self-esteem

Electric Massagers We carry the largest selection of massagers available. Massagers for your back, feet, neck and more.. Electric Massagers to fit every budget and meet every need from the professional to the occasional home user

Natural Herbal Heat packs that work both hot and cold A couple of minutes in the microwave and you are on your way to relief

Back braces back braces support the lumber region with compression and/or semi rigid panels

Chiropractic Pillows Some pillows feel good others make you feel good.

Improve bone strength Natural supplements to improve bone strength and joint health. A Lot of options for arthritis sufferes.

Massagers - Hand Held Massage tools that make giving a professional massage a snap. Give a longer more penetrating massage without tiring.

" What I find myself thinking more often than anything while working on adults with pain problems is, 'If only I had gotten to you twenty, thirty, forty years ago, I might have saved you this pain.' And more than one patient has said, 'If only I had done this when I was a child.' "

"Unexplained thigh and knee pain in children, even in infants, is more frequently due to quadriceps femoris trigger points than is generally realized. These youngsters with thigh and knee pain should be examined for trigger points."(Travell & Simons, Myofascial Pain & Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual, vol. II, page 263

Massage Reduces Anxiety in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Patients

Tiffany Field, PhD, Connie Morrow, MS, Chad Valdeon, BS, Sandra Larson, PhD, Cynthia Kuhn, PhD, and Saul Schanberg, MD, PhD

A 30-minute back massage was given daily for a 5-day period to 52 hospitalized depressed and adjustment disorder children and adolescents. Compared with a control group who viewed relaxing videotapes, the massaged subjects were less depressed and anxious and had lower saliva cortisol levels after the massage. In addition, nurses related the subjects as being less anxious and more cooperative on the last day of the study, and nighttime sleep increased over this period. Finally, urinary cortisol and norepinephrine levels decreased, but only for the depressed subjects.

-- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1992, 31, 1:125-131.

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