Luna Massage

06/01/2025

Quality is vital to and . According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): "Insufficient sleep is associated with a number of chronic diseases and conditions—such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and depression—which threaten our country's health. Notably, insufficient sleep is associated with the onset of these diseases and also poses important implications for their management and outcome. Moreover, insufficient sleep is responsible for motor vehicle and machinery-related crashes, causing substantial injury and disability each year. In short, drowsy driving can be as dangerous—and preventable—as driving while intoxicated."

Research is indicating that can improve sleep in:

- children and adolescents.
- those with psychiatric disorders.
- those who are hospitalized or institutionalized.
- those with lower back pain.
- those with cerebral palsy.
- those with fibromyalgia.
- those with insominia.
- those in pain.
- those with hand pain.
- those with cancer.
- infants with dyssomnia.
- those who have had heart surgery.
- those with breast disease.
- those with migraines.
- caretakers of hospitalized individuals.
- the elderly.

05/18/2025

Research has shown that in respect to tension headaches, massage can:

- reduce depression and/or anxiety
- decrease perceived pain
- decrease anger status
- decrease tension
- reduce frequency
- reduce intensity
- reduce duration
- decrease medication usage
- increase range of cervical motion

05/07/2025

can be used to , speed , and can be utilized by all individuals who participate in any athletic and/or program to help improve and peak .

04/29/2025

An Ottawa Panel was able to demonstrate that interventions are effective to provide short term of sub-acute and chronic symptoms and decreasing disability at immediate post treatment and short term relief when massage is combined with and .

04/22/2025

Research indicates can:
*Reduce anxiety -
- in psychiatric patients
- in those with
- for cancer patient
- for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants
- in children with illnesses
- in nurses
- associated with lower back pain
- in those with
- in patients awaiting invasive cardiovascular procedures
- in adults
- in patients with generalized anxiety disorder
- in patients under local anesthesia
- in stroke patients
- in the elderly
- in children and adolescent psychiatric patients
- in those at the end of life
- in adults with hand pain
- in patients with fibromyalgia
- in patients withdrawing from psychoactive drugs
- in burned adolescents
- in patients with congestive heart failure
- in women in labor
* Increase a sense of calm/reduce anxiety after surgery
* Reduce anxiety pre-surgery
* Reduce trait anxiety with a course of treatment providing benefits similar to psychotherapy
* Reduce the psychological and physiological anxiety levels in patients having cataract surgery
* Increase neurotransmitters associated with lowering anxiety
* Decrease hormones associated with increasing anxiety

04/18/2025

can complicate and delay a patient’s , lengthen hospital stays and costs, and interfere with a patient’s return to activities of daily living. In many people, pain medications can have unpleasant side effects. Research indicates that can decrease postoperative pain, decrease postoperative pain intensity, decrease postoperative pain unpleasantness/distress, decrease sympathetic responses to postoperative pain, accelerate the rate of decline in the intensity of postoperative pain, accelerate the rate of decline of the unpleasantness of postoperative pain, decrease doses of analgesics and increase levels of /feelings of .

04/17/2025

is a prevalent component in today's fast-paced world, which can negatively impact on an individual's and . has been shown to be a means by which stress can be reduced significantly on and levels. While massage know from experience that massage reduces stress, there is considerable research that validates our .

03/14/2025