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Modalities

The decision to seek alternative routes to health can mean being overwhelmed by choices. What’s the difference between reiki and rolfing, hypnotherapy and hydrotherapy?

For concise explanations, read the articles below to get a better sense of what each modality has to offer you.

Quick Reads

Short on time? Looking for the latest research briefs, news items and topic tidbits? Click below to get started!

Complementary Pain Relief

A small pilot study at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center seems to prove the clinical observation that massage and acupuncture can decrease postoperative pain and depression in cancer patients.

Reiki can relieve teen angst

Weight Loss

Since hitting my 30s, weight loss has been challenging. How could acupuncture help me shed unwanted pounds?

Healthy Solutions—RX: Massage away your child’s ear infections

Use massage to help relieve your child’s sinus congestion and ear infections.

Massage Away that Migraine

Headache sufferers—especially those with migraines—need lots of options for finding relief like a nice migraine specific massage.

5 Motivation tips to help you achieve your ideal weight

Achieving your ideal weight has as much to do with your mind as it does with your body.

Self-Hypnosis for Weight Loss

Communication between mind and body is the key ingredient for lasting weight loss, so give self-hypnosis a try.

Web Exclusive—Head massage for Sinusitus

For millions of winter cold sufferers, the virus itself is a breeze compared to the headaches, congestion, and exhaustion of sinus pain.

My First Time—One Medium Qi, Extra Cream, Please

Needle neophyte—Kristin’s first time on pins and needles

Inner Balance—More Than Just a Bed

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but how about a free massage?

Heal Thyself—RX-Herniated Disc

Oh, your aching back, you say? You’re not alone.

Inner Balance—Tui Na Massage

More task- oriented than other massage techniques, tui na can be an intense but effective treatment for various ailments.

Hands-On Therapies Get Rave Reviews

Alternative medicine has definitely become more popular in recent years with more people trying chiropractic care, massage, exercise, and dietary supplements.

Positive Strokes for Massage

If you head to the massage table when your muscles are in knots, you’re among the legions of Americans who place themsleves in good hands.

Acupuncture Accolades for Migraines

Acupuncture can help reduce the frequency and intensity of migraines.

The Force of Reiki

The health benefits of Reiki.

Revitalize Your Skin Through Self-Massage

Daily self-massage, called abhyanga, is an integral part of the Ayurvedic healing system.

Awaken to the Healing Power of Sound

Since the beginning of human spirituality, people have used sacred sounds or chanting to worship.

Needles for Knees

People have been using acupuncture to ease arthritis pain for centuries...

Acupuncture’s Heady Perk

In the largest randomized study on acupuncture and chronic pain, the therapy proved remarkably helpful for headache sufferers.

Read All About It

This section delves deep into the heart of the matter. Click below to read in-depth investigations, article features, cover stories, and the inspirational journeys of others facing this health challenge.

Thai’d Together

Get the stretching, relaxing and meditative state you seek with Thai massage. Start with our six poses.

What’s My Alternative?: Lupus

Massage helps ease lupus symptoms—and brings hope.

As Far as the Eyes Can See

Anyone interested in learning about their genetics, strengths, and general deficiencies and about preventative therapies could benefit from iridology, the study of the iris to detect illness or disease.

The Healthy Palette

Can expressing your creativity make you healthier? New research and clinical practice show how activities such as painting, dance, and storytelling help people heal and grow.

Healthy Solutions—Back in Action

Here’s how to gauge the damage of minor sports injuries and decide what you can do to speed up your recovery time.

MANopause

When and how should male menopause be treated?

Natural Radiance—Thinking Outside the Botox

Instead of painful and aggressive treatments like Botox, consider these noninvasive, soothing treatments that use sound, light, or gentle electrical current to stimulate the skin so it can heal and renew itself.

Roller Girl

The process of rolling over a muscle restores the body to an optimal level of function by manipulating the soft tissue.

’Til Death Do Us Part?

Promising research and a host of new therapies offer hope for TMJD sufferers.

Creature Comforts—Bodywork for Pets

Whether it’s massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, or craniosacral, bodywork helps pets heal—with impressive results.

Out with the Old In with the New

No need to make resolutions you’ll never keep. Instead ease into 2007 with this gentle winter cleanse that will clear out last year’s toxins and fortify your body, mind, and home for the year ahead.

Turning SAD Into GLAD

Beat the winter doldrums with these natural treatments for seasonal affective disorder.

Get Rhythm

Unleashing your inner drummer may rock you back to health.

Health in Motion—Stand Up For Your Wrists

Reshape your posture with yoga, Pilates, and Rolfing and wave good-bye to carpel tunnel problems.

Putting Stress to the Test

Biofeedback takes the pressure off.

Retreat to Fertile Ground

Fertility retreats to enhance your chances of conceiving.

Maya Abdominal Massage

Maya abdominal massage for fertility. Personal fertility story.

Personal Journey—Growing Through Back Pain

Chronic back pain not cured by Western medicine leaves a patient trying complementary therapies and nutritional supplements and finding some slow success.

Alternative Medicine Cabinet—End Sinusitis Naturally

End the pain of sinusitis using holistic methods including acupuncture, herbs, diet and homeopathy.

Personal Journey—End the Migraine Pain

End the pain: One woman’s (brief) journey with migraines.

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