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Micaela Romualdez - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Micaela Romualdez is an online marketer. She enjoys writing about topics that include health and wellness, massage therapy, alternative medicine, fitness, internet marketing, network marketing, and search engine optimization.
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- Your Guide to Alternative Healing
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Do you wish that the pathway to optimum health was paved with less visits to the doctor and fewer prescription medications? It can! Sixty-two percent of all Americans have discovered the secret healing powers of exemplary alternative remedies. They are safe, effective, and have few side effects.
- Pain - An Important Part of Healing in Massage Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] A good pain is the pain of healing. A bad pain is the pain of injury. It can be difficult to discern the difference. Sometimes, good pain is followed by relief from pain.
- Massage Therapy Technique - Using Your Hand to Glide Over Fascia
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Have you ever removed the skin off turkey when preparing a turkey dinner for Thanksgiving? Are you familiar with the thin, transparent, membranous substance underneath the skin and surrounding muscle? That substance is called fascia.
- What is Thai Massage in Massage Therapy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] The focus of a Thai massage is to align the misaligned energies of the body. Contrary to European style massage, Thai massage stresses circulation and pressure points thus enhancing internal health as well as muscular flexibility.
- What is Aquatic Massage Therapy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Aquatic massage therapy involves a gentle, manual massage therapy procedure that utilizes the buoyancy of water in a therapeutic pool. In most cases, aquatic massage therapy benefits a client more because the body experiences an increased range of motion in water than it does outside of the water.
- What is Massotherapy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Massotherapy is considered a holistic therapy because it aims to reduce the heart rate by helping to relax all the muscles of the body. It also helps to lower hypertension, improve blood circulation, improve lymphatic circulation, and promote the release of the body's natural painkilling drugs such as endorphins and encephalins.
- What is Manual Lymph Drainage in Massage Therapy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Manual lymph drainage (MLD) refers to a very gentle kind of massage therapy used to get rid of excess fluid from the body and improve the overall role of the lymphatic system. This particular method of massage therapy is used to treat lymphedema, which is the blocking of lymph nodes in the upper and lower extremities. MLD dates back to the early 1930's when it was first used on patients as a useful way to detoxify the body.
- The Four Levels of Touch in Massage Therapy
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Touch is considered one of our most basic needs. Many times, we can tell the difference between a "good touch" and a "bad touch." Do not be misled into thinking that these kinds of touch are purely sexual in nature. When we go to a professional massage therapist or body worker, we can detect something special about his/her quality of touch. However, it can be difficult to explain what makes his/her type of touch so unique.
- What is Breema Bodywork in Massage Therapy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] The purpose of both kinds is to increase the energy flow of the body and to bring the body to the present time. Self-breema exercises utilize gentle body stretches and nurturing touch in a nonjudgmental environment to bring about mental, physical, and emotional balance for optimal health.
- What is Lymphatic Massage?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] The body's lymphatic system is the focus of a lymphatic massage. The lymphatic system works for the immune system by draining out waste and cellular debris and fluid. This is how the body gets rid of toxins, that cause illness, from your cells and tissues.
- 9 Benefits of Getting a Massage With Herbal Oil
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] It has been hotly debated whether or not the massage therapist should use herbal oil as part of the general massage of the entire body. As a recipient of regular massage, I find that the oil benefits me greatly by reducing the friction between me and the therapist's hands. Whether or not the massage therapist uses oil, there are health benefits to getting a massage.
- What is Myofascial Release in Massage Therapy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Myofascial release is a highly specialized stretching method utilized by massage therapists to treat patients with various soft tissue disorders. To know what myofascial release is and why it works so well, one must know something about fascia. Fascia refers to the thin layer of connective tissue that covers all organs of the body.
- What is Rolfing? Who Can Benefit?
[Health-and-Fitness:Massage] Rolfing is form of bodywork that involves loosening the fascia covering our muscles and other organs and aligning the body to help promote better posture. It is the goal of rolfing to provide postural release and support the body so that it functions to its fullest potential. Structural abnormalities can promote dysfunction or even pain
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