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The history of sports massage

Sports Massage has been around for thousands of years. The Greeks and Romans were very clear on the benefits of massage on the athletes of their day. Galen (AD 30-200), who was a well-known Roman physician, prescribed massage for the gladiators both before and after exercising. Sports Massage followed a history similar to therapeutic massage. In the late 1980's to early 1990's, Sports massage became a modality unto it self with more specific training taking place for the practitioner to be able to address the specific needs of athletes whose bodies are undergoing intense physical exertion and stress.

Are now offically an ITEC approved training provider! Running courses in sports massage/therapy and complementary therapies upto Level 5!

The CTC is  now offically an ITEC approved training provider! Running courses in sports massage/therapy and complementary therapies upto Level 5!

The truth about statins

Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs significantly increase a person's risk of cataracts, muscle weakness, liver dysfunction and kidney failure, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.

The study also confirmed that the drugs lower the risk of heart disease and esophageal cancer, but claims of other health benefits were unsupported.

Researchers from Nottingham University in the United Kingdom examined data on more than 2 million patients between the ages of 30 and 84, seen at 38 different general practices, who had been prescribed the cholesterol-lowering drugs. More than 70 percent were taking simvastatin (Zocor), 22.3 percent were taking atorvastatin (Lipitor), 3.6 percent were taking pravastatin (Pravachol, Selektine), 1.9 percent were taking rosuvastatin (Crestor) and 1.4 percent were taking fluvastatin (Canef, Lescol, Lochol, Vastin).

Will this potion make you thin?

HCG gives you a sense of wellbeing and you do not get hungry (Roy Botterell) For a moment, everyone who was huddled outside a recent fashion show thought they had misheard her. Surely the style maven before us — who insists on keeping her name and her weight issues anonymous — hadn’t just said she’d lost 18lb in less than two weeks? It was no mistake, however, those were her very words. She looked glowing, ecstatic and, beneath her uniform of top-to-toe loose-fitting black, pretty svelte.

What was her secret? She was, she said, following the HCG diet, the latest craze to obsess New Yorkers. The basics are simple, even if they sound a tad draconian: a couple of drops of HCG hormone on the tongue a day (some inject it), combined with a daily intake of 500 calories (yes, you read that right). This must be followed strictly for four weeks, but thereafter you can eat a normal healthy diet with a short period of starch and sugar elimination. Wasn’t she starving? No, she beamed. Did she have enough energy to get through the day? She had never felt better, she said — on only an apple for breakfast and in the afternoon, some chicken and vegetables for lunch and again for dinner, and plenty of herbal tea. Besides, she said, she’d never known weight loss like it.

Work life balance

Long shift work and unregulated shift patterns is the catayalist in all cases of work related illness,though for many staff its work balance that can tip the scale and send some staff members ill. Workbalance can be tricky especialy when workers have a young family or they are young themselves and want to still have a full social life.

Wellness at work

By this BBC report (workplace illness) stress in the workplace must be at its highst level to date and what is the most cost effective and a diplomatic way of dealing with this epedemic. One way of dealing with this problem would be workplace massage a few minutes of untightning muscle knots and tension can be a real benefit.

Though cutting worker stress is a case of changing worker perception and idiology and this can be tackled through homeopathy,breathing relaxation or even counselling. Though when a worker is trapped within a unbalanced mind state that sort of in sight may be unwanted, though with massage this can be a great way of introducing workers to a therapy that everyone is open to. Once the worker has been through this massage process they are more suseptable to classes such as breathing relaxation and NLP. This is where suggestion can be introduced to the workers through guided meditation and breathing relaxation once these suggestions have been planted they can be triggered and that inplanted memory of deep relaxation can recalled through any situation even a stressfull one.

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Homeopathy Success in Piglets and E Coli

 
The following was sent to me by organic farmer, homeopathic activist and all round good guy - Oliver Dowding.  I was fascinated by this piece of research and I hope you enjoy it too:  Here's a quick outline of what happened:
The study in question was a double blind RCT of 52 sows who were randomly treated with Coli 30K or placebo and who subsequently gave birth to 525 piglets.The study showed that there was a reduction in the incidence of E.Coli diarrhoea.  (Results showed that the placebo group had over six times more diarrhoea than the homeopathically treated group (P < 0.0001). 

Doctors warn over homeopathic 'vaccines', but who are they helping, the patient or a healthy growing pharamaceutical industry?

Doctors warn that homeopathy does not work and there is no evidence to support this, though there has been a great deal of examples one of these is the mass vacination of 2.5 million people in cuba preventing Leptospirosis.

Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that affects humans and animals. It is caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira. In humans it causes a wide range of symptoms, and some infected persons may have no symptoms at all. Symptoms of leptospirosis include high fever, severe headache, chills, muscle aches, and vomiting, and may include jaundice (yellow skin and eyes), red eyes, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, or a rash. If the disease is not treated, the patient could develop kidney damage, meningitis (inflammation of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord), liver failure, and respiratory distress. In rare cases death occurs."

The Cuban's have been doing their best to alleviate the suffering that results from the Leptospirosis epidemic in which over 2,000 people get infected and some of whom die. The numbers of infections have been increasing year on year. Because the cost of producing the allopathic vaccine is very high, Cuba only inoculates a small percentage of the people likely to be infected. That still costs them £2.2 million.
As Cuba gets no help from the US it also has the benefit of not being under the grip of the multi national pharmaceutical companies that would normally not allow such a large scale homeopathic programme to go ahead.

Homeopathy & M.E

The condition ME or (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ) is also referred to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It is a chronic illness that affects many body systems and their functions. The changes seem to particularly affect the nervous  and immune system, but they also affect other body systems. The illness can cause profound exhaustion, muscle pain, problems with mental functioning such as memory loss and poor concentration, malaise and other symptoms. (ref. Bury & Bolton ME/ CFS support group).

Tai Chi helping fibromyalgia

Study in to Tai Chi helping fibromyalgia found that a number of patients responded well to it. Tai chi is great for correcting balance through slow movement and deep breathing, stimulating the chi in the body and giving clients a sense of wellbeing