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Healthy With Couples Massage
Posted by admin in Alternative Health Care, Health Care on January 20, 2011
This is a massage for health. massage massage can cure disease and to reflect on our bodies become fresh again. Have you been looking for a healthy way to spend time with your significant other? Your busy schedules usually keep you from exercising together & with the fast pace of the day there’s not always time to plan a healthy meal. So what can you do together that takes you away from the same old places? How about a Couples Massage? A Couples Massage is done by two massage therapists in one room with the couple.
How can Couples Massage help you both stay healthy? Massage therapy helps you improve your health due to the many healthy benefits of massage including: improved circulation, greater flexibility, better sleep, feelings of wellness, stress reduction, & reduced muscular pain.
Now that you know that Couples Massage can help you improve your health, you might want to know what types of massage are available to you during a Couples Massage. There are many styles & techniques used in Couples Massage but there are some that are widely available that you can receive during your session. The best known massage therapy techniques for Couples Massage are:
1. Swedish Massage – this is the most common of massage techniques in the United States & perhaps the world. Swedish massage is known for its long gliding strokes, kneading strokes, friction strokes, & percussion as well as joint movements that feel great while improving range of motion. It’s most often thought of as a “spa” type of massage but it’s much more than that. Swedish massage is great for reducing stress, improving circulation, improving range of motion of your joints, & helping you actually feel better in your own skin. Swedish massage can range from light pressure to a heavier pressure depending on your comfort level.
2. Deep Tissue Massage – right behind Swedish massage, Deep Tissue Massage is one of the best known & most often requested massage techniques. This massage is used to root out chronic tension in the deeper musculature & connective tissues that contributes to pain & loss of range of motion in joints. While some practitioners use a heavier, sometimes uncomfortable, pressure in Deep Tissue Massage it should be noted that a more moderate pressure can reach deep tissues & achieve great results with little discomfort.
3. Hot Stone Massage – this massage is probably the most relaxing & luxurious massage used in Couples Massage. Heated stones are added to the massage & are used by the massage therapist to perform a mini heat treatment as well as gliding strokes that seem to melt away stress & tension.
4. Sports Massage – just like it sounds, Sports Massage is geared toward athletes at every level from professional to the “weekend warrior” & those who strive for a higher level of fitness. Rather than a specific form of massage, Sports Massage is generally a combination of massage techniques tailored to the athlete’s needs. The Sports Massage might be applied to one area to relieve pain or might be more general in nature to assure overall performance. Sports Massage is great for athletic couples.
4. Neuromuscular Therapy – also called “NMT”, Neuromuscular Therapy is a well known technique for relieving muscular pain throughout the body even “referred” pain that originates from someplace other than where it’s felt. This technique uses very targeted massage techniques, positioning, & stretching to release myofascial trigger points in muscles as well as restrictions in tendons, muscular attachments, & sometimes fascia surrounding the muscle
How Can Alternative Health Care Help
Posted by admin in Alternative Health Care on November 26, 2010
Health care has become a major issue for most Americans. Costs are skyrocketing, many of us do not have health care coverage and a visit to the doctor can prove both costly and unfruitful. The typical medical doctor has spent about eleven years in college and residency programs to earn their degree. While well educated, sometimes they don’t have all the answers.
Due not to poor education, but perhaps a limited scope, the M.D. can not always help the patient resolve their health issue. In the last thirty years or so, alternative health care has sought to fill in the gaps. Allopathic medicine is the purvue of the medical doctor, dealing with the strict science of disease conditions. Pharmaceutical prescriptions, lab analysis and surgery are the main treatments available.
Alternative health care encompasses diagnosis and treatment programs which analyze body systems as a whole. While the medical doctor treats the symptoms of the patient, the alternative practitioner approaches disease as a systemic condition. The condition which brings the patient to the doctor may be only a symptom of an underlying problem of another area or organ.
For example, if you are frequently prone to bronchitis, the allopathic practitioner may prescribe antibiotics to resolve the infectious condition and thus bring it under control. The holistic practitioner may instead view the bronchitis as an underlying weakness of the immune system. The naturopathic, or holistic practitioner, recognizes that the bronchitis must be treated and may dispense a number of herbs which are natural antibiotics, such as garlic or elecampane root, a specific for respiratory problems to eliminate the coughing and excessive accumulation of phlegm. However, the alternative health practitioner won’t stop there. He or she may also prescribe a natural immune system booster, such as echinacea, to get at the root of the problem which is causing the recurrent bouts of bronchitis. This alternative approach can eliminate the problem altogether.
Other examples of alternative health approaches include quit-smoking programs. While your regular M.D. may prescribe nicotine patches, they don’t work for everyone. One alternative health discipline, accupuncture, employs the use of fine needles, placed along one of the 700-plus meridians established in Chinese medicine, to eliminate the desire to smoke. Many people successfully quit with such an alternative health approach.
Have you been plagued by migraine headaches? This can be a very difficult medical condition. While there are pharmaceutical prescriptions available to counter and alleviate this painful condition, these medications may not work and may also carry serious baggage in the side effects. Alternative health practitioners may offer herbs or aromatherapy as an alternative solution, minus the side effects.
Good health is of concern to all of us. If you have unresolved medical conditions, you owe it to yourself to investigate what alternative health has to offer. To your best health!