| "Often
times people are stressed in our culture. Stress-related
disorders make up between 80-and-90 percent of the
ailments that bring people to family-practice physicians.
What they require is someone to listen, someone to touch
them, someone to care. That does not exist in modern
medicine.
One of the complaints heard
frequently is that physicians don't touch their patients
any more. Touch just isn't there. Years ago massage was a
big part of nursing. There was so much care, so much
touch, so much goodness conveyed through massage. Now
nurses for the most part are as busy as physicians.
They're writing charts, dealing with insurance notes,
they're doing procedures and often there is no room for
massage any more.
I believe massage therapy
is absolutely key in the healing process not only in the
hospital environment but because it relieves stress, it is
obviously foundational in the healing process any time and
anywhere."
Joan
Borysenko - Massage Journal Interview, Fall 1999
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