Ten of the Best Types of Massage Therapy

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

Massage therapy has been around for hundreds of years. If you need to relief from muscle pain or stress, you can choose from one of the ten best types of massage therapy around.

Massage Therapy Risks – Fact or Fiction?

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

True enough, some critics believe that there are also risks involved in massage as a therapeutic technique. Life is not a bed of roses and it follows that for every advantage there is an equivalent disadvantage. How real can the massage therapy risks be? What impact will they pose on the human health? While there [...]

SELF MASSAGE

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Are you aware of having a personal massage therapist, actually two of them, available to you and ready to serve and fulfill your wishes twenty four hours a day and seven days a week all year round and charge you not a dime? And would you believe me when I tell you that these massage [...]

MASSAGE THERAPY AS COMPLIMENTARY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Massage therapy is a broad term that encompasses a wide variety of procedures and methods of pressing, rubbing and manipulating muscles and other soft body tissues such as tendons, ligaments, skin and connective tissues. The main objective of massage therapy is to relax the soft tissues while promoting an increased delivery of blood and oxygen [...]

THE FOOT MASSAGE

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Some 2,500 ago and during Lord Buddhas time in ancient India, a physician named Jivaka Komarabhacca developed a complex massage system which somehow ended up in Thailand where it was pass on by word of mouth from one generation to the next and is still practiced today in much the same way as it was [...]

PREGNANCY MASSAGE

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Who better deserves and needs a good massage therapy than a mother to be? I cannot think of anyone, can you? Pregnancy is a very stressful time in a womans life on the physical level as well as on the emotional. By increasing the blood and lymph circulation, by lowering the heart rate, by relaxing [...]

MASSAGE THERAPY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

With the baby boomers aging and with the help of higher technology and greater innovations in medicine and geriatric science, life is not merely being prolonged but more and more senior citizens today have the opportunity to take advantage of more quality life than ever before. This translates into a generation of more senior citizens [...]

THE HOT STONE MASSAGE

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The Hot Stone massage is a therapeutic massage technique in which a heated stone is held by the massage therapist who uses it to apply the customary and traditional Swedish massage strokes. Because they have the tendency to absorb heat and retain it for extended periods of time, the stones which are used are usual [...]

MASSSAGE THERAPY

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Massage Therapy is just one persuasion from a wide array of other very effective and closely related persuasions such as Acupressure, Body Work, Manipulative Therapy, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, Structural Integration, Alternative Medical Systems, Mind-Body Intervention, Biologically Based Therapy, Energy Therapy, Shiatsu and Tui Na. And all these as a group come under the wide umbrella [...]

RISKS OF MASSAGE THERAPY

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

By and large, massage therapy that is performed by a properly schooled and well experienced massage therapist who practices his or her art prudently and with due caution, is risk free to its recipients health and wellbeing. For that reason along, if for no other, massage therapists must be selected very carefully as credentials and [...]