In a world where hugging is on hold, many of us are touch starved. A recent trip to the doctor proved this to me when upon feeling her cold hands on my back I didn’t bristle, but instead, basked in ...

Nurse Heidi Hofacker slowly passes her hands a few inches over the nearly paralyzed body of a terminally ill cancer patient. From head to toe, up and back, again and again. Sometimes she stops to ...

Many of the joint replacement patients at Saint Francis Medical Center that Don Miles works with have never had any experience with massage. Miles, a massage therapist at Fitness Plus and ...

FOLKS WE TALKED TO SAY IT WORKS. >> USE A LITTLE FRANKINCENSE. MINDY: BARBARA JACKSON IS A BREAST-CANCER PATIENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ESTATE JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER. THIS IS PART OF HER ...

Mary Jo Majerus started Healing Touch in a $100-a-month downtown basement in 1987 with many doubting Rochester would try massage. Now 38 years later, she has a staff of 15 and a luxury skyway spa.