Tiffany field biography
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Tiffany Field on Massage Research
Institutions throughout North America are conducting clinical research into the benefits and mechanisms of massage therapy.
This wasn’t always the case.
Thirty years ago, when Tiffany Field, Ph.D., was a new mother, she massaged her infant daughter, who was born prematurely.
Tiffany field biography
The calming effects she witnessed inspired Field, a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry, to study prematurity and massage.
Field began conducting research into the beneficial effects of healthy touch in 1982, long before massage was even beginning to be accepted by either physicians or the public.
In 1992 she established the Touch Research Institutes (TRI) at the University of Miami School of Medicine, with a start-up grant from Johnson & Johnson. Before TRI, no other organization was focused only on the study of touch.
The research that put Field, and TRI, on the map showed that massage caused premature infants to gain more weight than their non-massaged p