Stress and Therapeutic Massage:

It's no myth that stress causes or aggrevates problems such as heart disease, gastrointestinal disorders, memory loss and a decrease in your body's immune system to function properly. Physical ailments aside, stress can create a feeling of continuous and inexplicable fatigue and depression. Symptoms like these have a way of not only draining your energy, but affect the way you live your life.

There is a natural and effective way of dealing with and managing stress - it's a simple remedy called massage therapy. Manipulation of the soft tissue by a professionally trained massage therapist decreases muscle tension, increases removal of metabolic waste and promotes nutrient delivery to healing tissue. Utilizing the correct techniques of massage therapy, will enable you to actually feel the stress leave your body.

Therapeutic Massage not only aids in stress relief and creating a sense of well being, but it actually boosts the body’s immune system, which can become compromised from extended periods of stress. Tension can build up in the muscles, causing a decrease in circulation and nutrient delivery to tissues. Eventually knots in your muscles will develop inhibiting your ability to perform simple, daily tasks. Your body will try to compensate for the pain created by a tight muscle. Before long, an injury that began in your neck can spread to your shoulder, arm and pectoral muscles. When this happens everything becomes uncomfortable and even painful enough to cause people to seek medical attention. Imagine how much pain, aggravation, and money you could have saved by visiting a massage therapist from the beginning to relieve and manage the causes of problems that can be quite serious.

Therapeutic Relaxation and Stress Releif:

A massage for relaxation and a Therapeutic Massage are two completely different things. A relaxation massage is the use of a combination of Swedish and other massage techniques, where the massage therapist will use light to medium pressure, depending on the client’s preference. The intent of this type of massage session is to help the client relax and feel good. Additional treatments might include a paraffin hand treatment, a sea salt or sugar body scrub, hot stone, a mud or cream application to the body.

Therapeutic massage sessions are unique in that clients are often referred by doctors and the may even take place at a clinic, hospital or private practice office. A first time client will usually spend a little more time before the session to complete a very thorough intake form detailing current and past health complaints. Therapeutic massage may have relaxing elements to it, but advanced techniques are likely to be used for pain and chronic health issues and may, in all honesty, cause discomfort during the process. A therapeutic massage practitioner may see a client very frequently for the first few weeks or months. Each case is unique.