'Massage' Category
Your hands can make a difference in your health
Where would we be without our hands? Quite inconvenienced in most cases. But did you know your hands can be responsible for maintaining your health (and I’m not talking about picking up the phone to make your next massage appointment!). Merritt Watts for Prevention.com wrote a list of 5 simple ways to […]
Self massage for headaches
Headaches are pretty high on the list of reasons several of my clients see me on a regular basis. Their headaches are usually combine with sinus or neck pain and most times they can be alleviated 15 minutes into an hour long massage.
I often give these clients a little homework to try on their […]Massage helps these dysfunctions
Many people may hesitate to book a massage session because they are not sure if massage would address their particular ailments, or dysfunctions. Well I’m happy to have stumbled across an informative piece at holisticonline.com that describes various dysfunctions that massage helps in detail. Read on…
Massage and Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction
Pain and/or physiological […]Massage for Depression
We are in the midst of a season when depression can be at its highest. Even for those who don’t clinically suffer from it, I think we’ve all felt “the blues” from time to time. Clinical depression, from my understanding, is the blues times 10 with seemingly no relief in sight.
There are many […]Massage yourself
Massage therapy is one of the top requested services in spa and wellness centers. Most people who’ve experienced professional massage don’t need to be told why. But let’s face it: if you could ease your tension yourself, most of us massage thereapists would be out of business.
With that in mind, take a […]Massage helps heart surgery patients
Here’s inspiring evidence of the positive effects of massage therapy on heart surgery patients. According to this report (found at Massage & Bodywork Magazine), the reduction in pain by the massage recipients led to the Mayo Clinic’s introduction of holistic therapies for their patients.
A Mayo Clinic five-month pilot study shows massage therapy […]Massage: The more the better
You may have heard that it’s a good idea to frequently receive massage therapy. If you’ve only heard that and not experienced it (sessions weekly or bi-weekly) you’d probably never know that the known benefits of massage increase when the frequency does. Well, MassageTherapy.com
recently posted an article describing these benefits. Here’s an […]Spotlight on Structural Integration
There are many types of bodywork geared towards correcting posture and alignment. Structural Integration is one of them.
Wikipedia describes it as: Structural Integration is a type of Alternative medicine which aims to align the human body in the gravitational field.[1] The claimed benefit is that the increased use of balance at finer levels […]Deepen your breathwork
Breathing is one of these functions that we all take for granted. Of course we can’t live without it but do we really breathe to the best of our benefits? Many people are unaware of how important our breathwork is in our overall muscle tension (specifically upper body tension), our posture and our […]
Cold water therapy
Ice–or in this case cold water–can be your friend when it comes to reducing pain overall. But you already know I’m a fan. In this case, cold water (much more tolerable to most) is the cause for cheer.
Natural Health Magazine recently posted on a cold water treatment that claims to reduce one’s chance of […]
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