pimg class=”alignright” title=”Massage” alt=”massage” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/massage.jpg” width=”320″ height=”213″ /I often get emails asking for my opinion about a title=”Body Work” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodywork_%28alternative_medicine%29″bodywork/a. While I’m not necessarily one to easily dismiss any treatment a title=”The Definitive Guide to Conventional Wisdom” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-conventional-wisdom/”conventional wisdom/a would devalue, I also approach this arena with some healthy skepticism. The question becomes what’s effective and what’s simply “woo-woo,” to use a somehow unmatchable term. I’ll leave much of that specific discussion to you all today, but I did want to examine one modality that has more research behind it than most, even if that body of studies is still somewhat patchy. Most people have had a massage sometime in their lives. We certainly have our own opinions about its impact. Unless we were truly unlucky, most of us likely came away with a pretty good impression. Many of us have gone back many times since with perhaps a […]

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