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Soothing the Body in Crisis

Ready to leave the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City for a needed night of rest during the week of Sept. 11, 2001, Karen Venable saw a slumped-over, visibly weak man in the room. She asked him if he needed a massage, and he guiltily responded, "Yes." Venable, a member of the Carolina Emergency Response Massage Team, began her work, wondering how she could ever help such a distressed man with just a short massage.

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