Get Therapeutic Value Of Our Massage Therapy

A massage is an excellent form of passive exercise. The word is derived from the Greek word ‘massier’ which means to knead. It involves the scientific manipulation of the soft tissues of the body.

If correctly done on a bare body, it can be highly stimulating and invigorating.

As far back as 400 B.C., the great Hippocrates, the father of medicine, employed massage and manipulation in healing his patients. Since then, it has been used as a mode of treatment for many ailments and it has restored many a sufferer to health and vigor.

Benefits
Our general massage, dealing with all parts of the body, is highly beneficial.

It tones up the nervous system, influences respiration, and quickens the elimination of poisons and waste material from the body through the various eliminative organs such as the lungs, skin, kidneys, and bowels. We at times support this with clay applications.

It also boosts blood circulation and metabolic processes. A massage removes facial wrinkles, helps to fill out hollow cheeks and neck, and eases stiffness, sore muscles, and numbness.

Various movements we adopt
There are five fundamental modes of manipulation in our massage therapy and these are:

1. Effleurage (stroking)
2. Friction (rubbing)
3. Petrissage (kneading)
4. Tapotement (percussion) 
5. Vibration (shaking or trembling)

1. Effleurage
   This involves sliding with the hands, using long, even strokes over the surface of the body.

   Effleurage is performed in five ways, namely stroking with
   (I) palms of two hands;
   (ii) one palm;
   (iii) the knuckles;
   (iv) the ball of the thumb 
   (v) the fingertips.

   Effleurage increases blood circulation and soothes the nervous system. It also warms and relaxes. It is very helpful in an atrophied condition of the skin.

2. Friction
   The movements, which are circular in nature are performed with the help of the thumb and tips of fingers or the palm of the hand towards the joints or around the joints.

   Friction limbers up joints, tendons, and muscles and facilitates the removal of deposits by breaking them. It also helps in reducing swelling after nerve inflammation.

3. Petrissage
   This is the process of kneading, pressing, and rolling the tissues and is performed with one or both hands, with two thumbs, or with thumbs and fingers. One should apply heavy pressure for deep kneading and light pressure for superficial kneading.

   Petrissage is a treatment of the muscles. It increases nutrition, strengthens muscles, relieves intestinal congestion, and helps eliminate poisons. It boosts long activity and cellular respiration eliminates fatigue poisons and tones up nerve endings.

4. Tapotement
   This involves hacking, tapping, clapping, and beating and is achieved by striking the body rapidly.

   Short and quick blows are generally given from the wrist. Tapotement helps in the atrophied condition of the muscles. It increases blood supply, soothes nerves, and strengthens muscles.

5. Vibrations
   This is achieved by rapidly shaking the pressing movements by use of the hand or fingers on the body.

   The vibrating hand should move constantly. This is beneficial in neuritis and neuralgia after the inflammatory stage is over. It stimulates circulation, glandular activity, and nervous plexuses. It also helps in bowel movement.

   Another form of massage helpful in most elements is the vibrating massage. Only trained persons can do this. The vibratory muscles are more efficiently administered by a special, electrically operating machine.

Material We Use of Massage

Cottonseed oil is the most common oil we use for massaging. Coconut oil, almond oil are also used depending on the individual body and oil tolerance, but butter is used for filling out cheeks and the neck and also for breast enlargement.

If the patient is averse to oil, talcum powder may be used.

General body massage may be done for 40 to 45 minutes and local body massage for 10 to 15 minutes.

The oil is washed off completely after the massage.

Therapeutic Benefits
Our massage therapy can give you several therapeutic advantages as a method of treatment for many common ailments like:

• Improve blood circulation
• Improve sleep and mood
• Improve fertility
• Helps expel toxins from the body
• Improve constipation and digestion
• Boost immune system
• Improve Endocrine system functions and lots more

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