Massage Therapy Journal Summer 2024

Summer 2024 • 9

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Massage for Middle-Aged and Older Clients For many, middle age is a time when new health conditions can start to appear, whether acute or chronic. From symptoms of menopause to increased stress to skin conditions, aging bodies are sometimes in need of deeper, more frequent care. More recently, the benefits of integrative health care approaches, including massage therapy, are showing themselves to be very effective in helping manage some of the conditions that frequently arise in the middle years of life.

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