Massage with Care

04/03/2026

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Miranda Tyler LMT M06501

04/02/2026

03/31/2026

Compassionate massage is human nature, we’ve been easing pain through massage for centuries

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03/30/2026

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Miranda Tyler LMT M06501

03/25/2026

Cognitive neuroscientist Dan-Mikael Ellginsen from the University of Oslo in Norway led a 2016 review that highlighted three ways that we experience touch.

1. Gate of attention: This refers to where the focus of your body is. It’s basically your brain’s way of selecting specific stimulus to pay attention while filtering out others.

For example, clients might not realize they have a “sore spot” until you touch that area. Another more mundane example is when you’re sitting on your couch watching a movie, you probably aren’t aware of your seat pressing against your bottom or how your feet and legs are positioned unless you bring awareness to those body parts.

2. Prediction: This is where you anticipate what something feels like before you even touch it. One example in massage therapy is how some clients expect a massage would feel based on their prior experience.

If they find deep tissue massage alleviates their back pain, then it’s likely beneficial to them. The same could be said for those who find light touch massage, like Swedish, to be beneficial.

3. Context: Sensory inputs, such as visual and auditory cues from who is touching you, how you feel, and where your environment is. For example, being touched during a massage or physiotherapy session by a qualified therapist is quite different than having a random customer touch you at a coffee shop.

Sometimes C-tactile fibers do a “hedonic flip” where the same soothing touch can feel very threatening, or at best, uncomfortable. A common example is how sensitive the skin gets around an injured or inflamed area. Such clues support the idea that the change of C-tactile fiber function motivates you to protect the injured part.

“Given the strong contextual influences on touch pleasantness, it is unknown whether there are qualities of certain touch stimuli that inherently carry a positive hedonic value (i.e., are pleasant or give rise to positive affect), or whether the hedonic value of touch is always dependent on other contextual or internal factors,” Ellingsen et al. wrote.

Details: https://massagefitnessmag.com/massage/skin-sensory-receptors/

03/23/2026

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03/19/2026

Glad to be back!

Miranda from Massage with Care will be at the Community Center next Wednesday, March 25, from 10 am - 4 pm!

03/16/2026

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03/09/2026

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03/06/2026

For decades, fear-avoidance beliefs have played a central role in how clinicians and researchers understand chronic pain. When pain is interpreted as a sign of harm, people may avoid movement or activity, leading to physical deconditioning, emotional distress, and disability. This framework has shap...

03/06/2026

While undertaking research of original documents and books at the Wellcome Collection in London a few months ago I came across a first edition of the famous book by Margaret Dora Palmer titled & #82…