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Article: Prenatal health through massage therapy: for women and their babies: Julie Howell, N.M.T., P.M.T., details the benefits and debunks the myths of massage for the expecting.
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- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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While massage therapy has reached the mainstream, a clear understanding of massage for prenatal women has not yet found its place in American culture. Twenty years ago, medical doctors believed pregnancy was an automatic contraindication for massage and women were expected to just wait out the various (and sometimes excruciating) muscular pains of pregnancy. For the general public, myths based in truth found a life of their own ("I heard you should never let anyone touch your feet ...") and grew to urban legend proportion.
Through the efforts of pioneers in the field like massage therapist Carole Osborne-Sheets and medical doctor Tiffany Fields, great strides ...