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Showing posts with label therapeutic massage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label therapeutic massage. Show all posts
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Pregnancy Massage (Prenatal Massage and Postnatal Massage)
Prenatal massage has many of the same benefits as regular massage, but is specially designed to accomodate the needs of pregnant women. Some of the benefits of prenatal massage include relaxing tense muscles, decreasing stress, and preventing stretch marks.
Benefits of Prenatal Massage:
During Pregnancy
Benefits of Prenatal Massage:
During Pregnancy
- Facilitates hormonal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary, and other physiological processes during pregnancy
- Reduces stress, promotes relaxation, facilitates transitions through emotional support and physical nurturing
- Reduces edema and blood pressure, relieves varicose veins, and increases blood processes during pregnancy
- Reduces musculoskeletal strain and pain
- Fosters nurturing maternal touch
- Contributes to developing flexibility and the kinesthetic awareness necessary to actively participate in the birth process
- Reduces labor complications, medications, and interventions
- Contributes to shorter, less painful labor
- Improves infant well-being
- Promotes structural realignment of the spine and pelvis, and reorganization of movement
- Contributes to rehabilitation of abdominal skin, muscles, and organs
- Facilitates postpartum emotional, physiological, and family adjustments
- Reduces musculoskeletal and organic pain
- Relieves muscle strain caused by childcare activities
- Promotes recovery from cesarean birth, including healing of the incision
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Elderly Massage (Senior Massage or Geriatric Massage)
Massage is becoming more popular with people of all ages; it is one of the oldest of all treatments used by man. Records go back 3,000 years documenting its use. Hippocrates wrote papers recommending the use of rubbing and friction for joint and circulatory problems.
Today, massage is an accepted part of many physical rehabilitation programs and has proven beneficial to many chronic conditions such as low back pain, arthritis, and bursitis. With an increase in blood circulation the client may benefit from an increase in balance and flexibility, an increase in joint mobility, improved posture, combat depression, and encourage overall well-being. Massage helps relieve the stress and tension of everyday living. Seniors can remain independent longer if they are flexible and feel confident about how they look and feel.
The needs of each client can be taken into consideration for proper amount of pressure and use of various tools. The practitioner will leave the room while you undress, relax onto the table and cover yourself with a clean sheet. Throughout the session, you will be properly draped or covered. Only the area being worked on will be exposed.
A light oil or lotion may be used to permit your muscles to be worked on without causing excessive friction to the skin. The average full-body session lasts approximately one hour, but some clients enjoy shorter, 30-minute sessions.
Today, massage is an accepted part of many physical rehabilitation programs and has proven beneficial to many chronic conditions such as low back pain, arthritis, and bursitis. With an increase in blood circulation the client may benefit from an increase in balance and flexibility, an increase in joint mobility, improved posture, combat depression, and encourage overall well-being. Massage helps relieve the stress and tension of everyday living. Seniors can remain independent longer if they are flexible and feel confident about how they look and feel.
The needs of each client can be taken into consideration for proper amount of pressure and use of various tools. The practitioner will leave the room while you undress, relax onto the table and cover yourself with a clean sheet. Throughout the session, you will be properly draped or covered. Only the area being worked on will be exposed.
A light oil or lotion may be used to permit your muscles to be worked on without causing excessive friction to the skin. The average full-body session lasts approximately one hour, but some clients enjoy shorter, 30-minute sessions.
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Infant Massage (Baby or Pediatric Massage)
Infant Massage is a vital, dynamic interaction that forms the foundation of relationship building that will last a lifetime. Nurturing touch between a parent/caregiver and an infant enriches physiological, social-emotional, and mind/body/spirit connections for the infant being massaged, as well as for the parent. Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant, food as necessary as minerals, vitamins and proteins.
Touch is vital for the development of attachment behavior and for early social development of the young child, in that both the infant and parent have the capacity to elicit and respond to behaviors in mutually pleasurable ways. The original infant-parent tie is very important for infants-and society-because it is from this original attachment and bonding that all subsequent attachments will follow.
Two conditions that enhance development of bonding are the ability of the parent to be sensitive in understanding and responding to his or her infant’s cues, and the amount and nature of the interactions between infant and parent. It is through infant massage that bonding may be deepened.
Social interaction is significant for the parents’ well being, essential for the child’s development during the first three years of life, and paramount thereafter. Babies are social creatures who learn from their interactions with others. Expanding children’s repertoire of interactive behaviors can assist them to influence their world, and deepen their quality of life and the lives of their parents.
Research shows that Infant Massage has been beneficial in the following areas:
Touch is vital for the development of attachment behavior and for early social development of the young child, in that both the infant and parent have the capacity to elicit and respond to behaviors in mutually pleasurable ways. The original infant-parent tie is very important for infants-and society-because it is from this original attachment and bonding that all subsequent attachments will follow.
Two conditions that enhance development of bonding are the ability of the parent to be sensitive in understanding and responding to his or her infant’s cues, and the amount and nature of the interactions between infant and parent. It is through infant massage that bonding may be deepened.
Social interaction is significant for the parents’ well being, essential for the child’s development during the first three years of life, and paramount thereafter. Babies are social creatures who learn from their interactions with others. Expanding children’s repertoire of interactive behaviors can assist them to influence their world, and deepen their quality of life and the lives of their parents.
Research shows that Infant Massage has been beneficial in the following areas:
- Helps Relieve Discomfort from Gas, Colic, and Constipation
- Improves Blood Circulation
- Aids in Digestion
- Enhanced Development of the Nervous System
- Stimulates Neurological Development
- Increases Alertness/Heightened Awareness
- Reduces Stress Hormones
- Improves Immune Function
- The Release of Oxytocin, the Nurturing Hormone
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Massage Therapy and Sports Massage
Sports massage is a therapy that helps athletes and active people to enhance performance, reduce injury and speed up recovery times. A sports massage therapist employs a variety of techniques to ease muscle tension and improve circulation to affected areas of the body.
There are many benefits to regular sports massage treatment
Recovery is the main benefit – the tired muscles are being stretched and the metabolic waste and toxins that build up in muscles are released. The nutrients in the fresh blood being pumped into the muscles helps speed up the recovery process by repairing muscle damage, controls inflammation and any associated pain.
Massage also alleviates trigger points within the muscles, breaks down adhesions and the build up of scar tissue – all of which can affect the function of key muscle groups when racing and training.
Injury prevention is vital – there is no point putting time and effort into hard training sessions only to become injured weeks or days before a key event in the season.
Injury rehabilitation – again there is no point putting the hard effort in only to miss key races during a season because injuries keep returning.
You get to know your body better – this has the benefit of being able to focus key sessions on strengthening weak areas of the muscles and again is key to injury prevention.
It is has psychological benefits – the muscles learn to relax, you know that you body is feeling good before going into a key race or block of hard training and you know that your body is in peak condition.
There are many benefits to regular sports massage treatment
Recovery is the main benefit – the tired muscles are being stretched and the metabolic waste and toxins that build up in muscles are released. The nutrients in the fresh blood being pumped into the muscles helps speed up the recovery process by repairing muscle damage, controls inflammation and any associated pain.
Massage also alleviates trigger points within the muscles, breaks down adhesions and the build up of scar tissue – all of which can affect the function of key muscle groups when racing and training.
Injury prevention is vital – there is no point putting time and effort into hard training sessions only to become injured weeks or days before a key event in the season.
Injury rehabilitation – again there is no point putting the hard effort in only to miss key races during a season because injuries keep returning.
You get to know your body better – this has the benefit of being able to focus key sessions on strengthening weak areas of the muscles and again is key to injury prevention.
It is has psychological benefits – the muscles learn to relax, you know that you body is feeling good before going into a key race or block of hard training and you know that your body is in peak condition.
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