Red Cross Therapeutic Care

*Do you like to take a hands-on approach to helping people? * Would you like to help carers, the bereaved or those facing illness to reduce their stress and pain? *Are you interested in learning gentle massage techniques? *Are you willing to spend a few hours a month helping those in need? *Are you interested [...]

Pilot Study Finds Massage Benefits Burns Children

Aromatherapy massage treatments helps young burns victims relax, according to a new study conducted by researchers in Cape Town. The study was conducted in 2009 at a small paediatric burns unit with 17 beds, and included 71 test subjects, with the average age of the children studied at 3 years old. 129 sessions were undertaken at [...]

Essential Oil Files: Tea Tree

This is the first of our resident aromatherapist, Susan Munro’s series on Essential Oil treatments. Here she focuses on one of the most useful essential oils, Tea Tree. I have always said every bathroom cabinet should contain two essential oils: lavender and tea tree. More about the former next week, this week we’re talking about [...]

How to Improve Your Computing Posture

Here at Wee Sally Therapeutic Massage we have noticed that sitting for long expanses of time at the computer can wreak havoc with your posture, creating pain, muscle strains and other injury. Unfortunately, there’s little getting out of the fact that many of us are required to sit at computers for a large part of [...]

Should alternative medicine be available on the NHS?

4 thought TV is a weekly show on Channel 4, which asks a question related to a specific moral or ethical quandary, then presents 7 videos from different people involved with the issue in order to stimulate debate. This week 4 thought TV will be focusing on the question: ‘Should alternative medicine be available on [...]

The Importance of Stretching

Stretching is an important tool to help improve muscle balance and flexibility. We often use active (client-driven) and passive (therapist-driven) stretching when administering massage treatment. However, it’s important to continue your good work at home with self-stretching techniques. Stretching improves blood supply to the muscles, thereby facilitating nutrient delivery to the active tissues, and reducing soreness after [...]

Massage Therapy and Immune Function

Much research has been conducted into the relationship between massage therapy and improved immune function.  While massage therapists have long claimed that the application of touch therapy techniques can boost the immune system function, few comprehensive studies featuring definitive results have been produced. Recently, there has been a trend towards laying the foundations for more [...]

Good Intentions Lessen Pain

A new study conducted by researchers at The University of Maryland has discovered that how others perceive our intentions can improve our resilience to pain, our responsiveness to pleasure, even enhance our senses. The study, to be published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science,  revealed that home-baked cookies made by a loving relative really do taste better [...]

New Study Reveals Lavender Oil Improves Sleep Quality

Chronic sleeplessness is rife in today’s society: 1 in 5 people living in the U.K. today suffers from sleeping difficulties, whether it be disrupted sleep, insomnia, or poor sleep quality. Usually, this is treated with sleeping pills, which can be harmful to your health, particularly if used frequently. It’s no wonder, then, that a veritable [...]

We’re Back!

Many of you may be aware we had an electrical fire at our Bathgate clinic late last month that managed to burn through paint, supplies and our kitchenette. All in all, it wasn’t the best time of year to suffer a fire, with many people on holiday it’s taken a while to get cleaned up [...]

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