Massage & Bodywork

JULY | AUGUST 2018

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If you haven't already heard, massage, bodywork, and manual therapy probably don't work in the ways we thought they did. It's becoming clearer that these modalities produce many (some say all) of their beneficial effects via the nervous system and the brain, and that they probably produce far fewer direct physiological changes (such as reducing lactic acid) or structural changes (such as permanently remodeling connective tissues) than we previously thought. 80 m a s s a g e & b o d y w o r k j u l y / a u g u s t 2 0 1 8 You're Already Using Placebos in Your Practice, for Better or Worse ARE YOU A PL CEBO? A By Til Luchau

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