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No More Pain - the Massage Secret
To the list of things no one escapes, right below death and taxes, let us add muscle soreness.
A sedentary person is still prone to gravity and kinetic forces, the basic stresses everybody experiences..even with massage.
One might even build the case that a sedentary life invites more inflexibility, more muscle soreness and spasm than is introduced by an active lifestyle.
So even couch potatoes can benefit from the therapeutic wonders of massage.
Yet it is the athlete and those of us who pursue physical activities and workout programs that can best utilize massage in keeping joints and muscles flexible, functioning and optimally pain-free. Thus a massage therapist is to the human body as the mechanic is to an automobile.
How Can Massage Benefit You?
More often than not, the therapist will use his/her hands to manipulate the soft tissue in order to facilitate the physical and often psychological needs of the client. Muscle tissue is typically the target, but the therapist, or masseuse, can apply their touch to other tissues as well, such as: tendons, ligaments, joints, skin, connective tissue, lymphatic vessels and the organs of the gastrointestinal system.
Types of Massage
Most of us have heard the term Swedish massage. If you guessed this approach to bodywork was developed in Finland, you'd be close. Per Henrik Ling's techniques were promoted in the mid-1800s by two New York physicians, establishing the form known for long, flowing strokes as perhaps the best known. While the Swede forever linked his nation to this technique, it was the French that found a way to name two of the six basic strokes.
In addition to effleurage, 'to skim over,' and petrissage, 'to knead,' a massage therapist performing a Swedish massage would employ friction, tapotement (hey, another French word meaning to 'tap' or 'drum'), compression and vibration strokes.
Lotion, cream or various oils are used to reduce friction between the therapist's hands and the skin of the very lucky individual, who might well fall asleep and wake up with a reduction of pain, joint stiffness and the kind of total body relaxation that might make them want to go back to sleep.
Shiatsu sounds like a breed of small dog, but it actually is a Japanese form of massage where you keep your clothes on and lay on the floor as the massage therapist uses thumb pressure to work energy meridians. The Shiatsu masseuse will also incorporate stretching.
Deep Tissue Massage is thought to have originated in a dungeon somewhere. Most likely it was developed by physical therapists with very strong hands and fingers. The approach, as the name suggests, allows the massage practitioner to focus manual pressure to a specific joint, muscle or muscle group for the purposes of accessing deeper layers of soft tissue.
If pressure is applied too deeply or too quickly, the muscle may guard, or tighten, to protect the area and the client will yelp like a dalmation.
Myofacial Release is a manual massage approach that seeks to stretch the fascia for the purposes of releasing bonds between fascia, integument and muscles.
The goal of myofacial release is to eliminate pain, increase range of motion andget out your dictionaryequilibrioception, which is textbook-speak for 'sense of balance. Stone Massage employsget thisstones! So that the massage therapist can penetrate deeper into the muscle, smooth stones (ususally warmed) are placed on the body to relax the muscle first.
Plucked from a hot water bath, the stones are dried and given a coating of oil before being wielded directly in the hands of the masseuse. Often, the hot stones are placed under the back, along the sides of the spine and on top of the torso to provide thermal stimulation to the chakra, or meridian centers. In this application, the stones are not oiled so as to inhibit gravity or movement from dislodging the stones.
The Main Benefit Of Massage
There are many other approaches practiced by massage therapists. Previously described above can all work with an active person in their desire to stay pain and injury free.
About the Author
Zach Hunt is a massage Spokane expert, fitness coach and owner of Physzique, a fitness coaching service in Spokane, WA. Go here: Personal Trainer Spokane Fitness Tips for more fitness tips.
Are Massages Appropriate For Every Age Group
A massage can be a great stress buster. In this day and age when just about everyone, including children are stressed, can anyone get a massage? While age is not a deterrent to having a massage, not all types of massages are appropriate for all age groups. It is for this reason why there are masseuses who are trained in offering various types of massages.
While massages are appropriate for any person aged 0 to 100, there are massages and techniques that are best suited for different age groups. Plus, the techniques used and pressure asserted when giving a healthy adult male a massage wouldn't be used on a child of eight. An aromatherapy massage may not be ideal for an asthmatic as the strong scents may bring on an attack, but again this is not age-related.
It may be surprising to learn that babies can benefit greatly from massages. In fact, from the first day of birth a massage can be given to a baby. Not everyone can give a baby a massage as there are techniques that must be learned so as not to harm them. Many parents take classes on giving massages to babies because of the many benefits that can be derived from this. Some of the wonderful benefits include:
• For many newborns, a massage makes the transition from the womb into the world a bit easier.
• Helps to soothe a fussy baby
• Can help put a baby to sleep
• Helps improve and maintain the health of the baby's circulatory system and even their digestive system
• Helps to build and strengthen the bond between parents and babies
In fact, there are only a few groups of persons who are advised not to have massages. Others can have massages if they have certain conditions, but the affected areas of the body must be avoided. None of these factors, however, has anything to do with age. These individuals are:
• Pregnant women in their first trimester. In fact, unless the masseuse has been trained in giving massages to pregnant women, known as prenatal massage, you shouldn't get a massage when pregnant.
• Persons with varicose veins should avoid having the areas with the veins massaged
• Persons with broken bones. Clearly the tissue surrounding broken bones should not be massaged. Even the areas just outside the cast may be sensitive to pressure.
• People with areas with open cuts and wounds.
Anyone can have a stress busting, relaxing massage regardless of their age. The one factor is that the massage should be age-appropriate and performed by someone trained to offer this type of massage as certain massages are appropriate for people of varying ages.
Before deciding on what type of massage to get or give someone, learn about the various types of massages that exist. There are quite a few, with the 10 most commonly known ones being Swedish massage, Acupressure massage, Deep Tissue massage, Aromatherapy massage, Pregnancy massage, Hot Stone massage, Back massage, Shiatsu massage, Thai massage, and Geriatric massage.
Over the years, massage therapy has become a popular choice for people of all ages. They provide the soothing comfort and relaxation that we all could use at some point in our lives.
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