Massage Therapy Styles and Health Benefits
What Are the Health Benefits of Massage? Many types of massage offer benefits beyond simple relaxation. Here are just a few of the health problems that may benefit from massage. Ask your doctor before using massage for any health condition, though.
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Swedish Massage
The most common type of massage is Swedish massage therapy. It involves soft, long, kneading strokes, as well as light, rhythmic, tapping strokes, on topmost layers of muscles. This is also combined with movement of the joints. By relieving muscle tension, Swedish therapy can be both relaxing and energizing. And it may even help after an injury.
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Chinese Therapeutic Massage
Chinese Therapeutic Massage TechniquesTherapeutic massage is an all-natural relief without drugs.Like acupuncture Chinese Massage is based on the theory of meridians or channels and collaterals. Our body is networked by a system of pathways (meridians) which function to transport qi (energy) and blood, to regulate yin and yang, to protect against external pathogens and to link the internal organs with the exterior. Blockage of the meridians causes pain and is intimately connected with all health problems.
Chinese Massage is primarily focused on the meridians and on acupoints where qi gathers and can be easily manipulated. Massage techniques are understood to affect the meridians by: Activating qi and blood ( in the sense of increasing its activity) Regulating qi and blood ( in the sense of dispersing stagnation and guiding counterflow) Dredging the channels ( in the sense of removing external pathogens like cold and damp) Massage also relaxes the jin ( sometimes mistranslated as tendons, jin actually refers to the function of all soft and connective tissue in relation to movement and flexibility) to ease spasm and increase flexibility and straightens the joints. Both jin and joints closely affect the flow of qi in the meridians. What is particularly interesting is that these effects create movement in one form or another. Since in TCM terms pain is simply a lack of free flow of qi and blood, this is why Chinese Massage is such a powerful treatment for pain. |
Thai Massage During a Thai massage, the therapist uses his or her body to move the client into a variety of positions. This type of massage includes compression of muscles, mobilization of joints, and acupressure.
Thai Therapeutic Massage
Cupping Treatment
As a child when I picked temperature grandmother called me with the words “Come you put some cups.” With cupping healing colds, cramps, bronchitis and whatnot. Sticking them back to anyone who complain that something hurts. Most often, however, it was the grandchildren – a number aged 3 to 15 years. Someone had given her runny her coughing. I remember with nostalgia for those evenings. It was a time that I read the longest tales. Perhaps that is why I do not remember feeling uncomfortable with the procedure. Do not be afraid of the flame or the mutual conjugation of the glass skin. Only unstick them, accompanied by juicy “POP” is left unpleasant memories, not so much because of the painful tug as that talk had done and had to fall asleep. In the morning, however, there was no trace of the disease and then, without the need for potent drugs or antibiotics. Forgotten procedure today became star image after Gwyneth Paltrow appeared with purple blue circles back and released, it is a fan of vendutsite. This light interest in ancient Chinese practice even among Hollywood celebrities. A different guru of world SPA centers explained that the imposition of cupping massage and relax the body, relax and energize. In our exotic their application is limited only to the anti-cellulite massage. |