Why is a Back, Neck and Shoulder Massage so necessary nowadays?
Does your back ache from staring at a screen all day long? Are you sitting in the same position for hours and hours?
Recurring back pain may disrupt your daily life and interfere with your ability to function normally.
Fact: The spine contains over 120 muscles, 220 ligaments, and over 100 joints!
Good news: Your therapist will be able to ease and relax ALL OF THEM.
Back pain is often caused by disharmony between the numerous muscles, bones, ligaments, and discs that work together. Triggers for back pain as you know, could include poor posture and heavy physical work done with incorrect movements.
Back pain is one of the leading causes of employee absenteeism.
Massage is a gentle, non-invasive, and drug-free treatment for persistent back pain. Medical experts are now beginning to accept massage as an effective therapy that is recommended in tandem with medical treatment.
A well-delivered back, neck and shoulder massage can make your whole quality of life better:
It affects your entire body, your posture, your physique, your quality of life, aligning your muscles and vertebrae backbones, neck and shoulder muscles, so that the strain is lifted.
It affects your mind:
Healing you from all the aches enabling you to move comfortably again, freeing your movement hence freeing your mind to enjoy whatever it is you wish to do.
It lifts your spirits:
Making you feel equally rejuvenated, refreshed and ready to face the day and night with a wonderfully fresh outlook and uplifted spirits.
If you are one of the millions who suffer from back pain, you may wish to read on for some important facts about the therapeutic effects of back massage.
Your therapist will use either their hands or specialised tools to perform a back massage.
They use kneading, stroking, or rubbing movements to stimulate blood circulation to the muscles which, in turn, helps them heal. The strokes also help eliminate waste products and toxins that may result in pain or stiffness. Accumulation of waste products like lactic acid causes muscular spasms. This is why certain muscles feel painful when stroked.
Hence it is extremely important to communicate with your therapist about how they feel.
Say if the pressure is too much or too little; ideal pressure should produce ‘good pain’, although it is entirely up to you if you would like to relax enjoy a softer massage rather than a deeper one with 'good pain' involved.
The back muscles should relax in response to the pressure applied by your therapist and the spasms should ease.
It is possible to indicate halfway through the massage that you would like to carry on for another 30 minutes or more, the therapists will always try to accommodate such requests.
Recurring back pain may disrupt your daily life and interfere with your ability to function normally.
Fact: The spine contains over 120 muscles, 220 ligaments, and over 100 joints!
Good news: Your therapist will be able to ease and relax ALL OF THEM.
Back pain is often caused by disharmony between the numerous muscles, bones, ligaments, and discs that work together. Triggers for back pain as you know, could include poor posture and heavy physical work done with incorrect movements.
Back pain is one of the leading causes of employee absenteeism.
Massage is a gentle, non-invasive, and drug-free treatment for persistent back pain. Medical experts are now beginning to accept massage as an effective therapy that is recommended in tandem with medical treatment.
A well-delivered back, neck and shoulder massage can make your whole quality of life better:
It affects your entire body, your posture, your physique, your quality of life, aligning your muscles and vertebrae backbones, neck and shoulder muscles, so that the strain is lifted.
It affects your mind:
Healing you from all the aches enabling you to move comfortably again, freeing your movement hence freeing your mind to enjoy whatever it is you wish to do.
It lifts your spirits:
Making you feel equally rejuvenated, refreshed and ready to face the day and night with a wonderfully fresh outlook and uplifted spirits.
If you are one of the millions who suffer from back pain, you may wish to read on for some important facts about the therapeutic effects of back massage.
Your therapist will use either their hands or specialised tools to perform a back massage.
They use kneading, stroking, or rubbing movements to stimulate blood circulation to the muscles which, in turn, helps them heal. The strokes also help eliminate waste products and toxins that may result in pain or stiffness. Accumulation of waste products like lactic acid causes muscular spasms. This is why certain muscles feel painful when stroked.
Hence it is extremely important to communicate with your therapist about how they feel.
Say if the pressure is too much or too little; ideal pressure should produce ‘good pain’, although it is entirely up to you if you would like to relax enjoy a softer massage rather than a deeper one with 'good pain' involved.
The back muscles should relax in response to the pressure applied by your therapist and the spasms should ease.
It is possible to indicate halfway through the massage that you would like to carry on for another 30 minutes or more, the therapists will always try to accommodate such requests.
You may wish to try our ICE massage:
Ice massages are known to provide back pain alleviation in a number of ways:
Ice massages are known to provide back pain alleviation in a number of ways:
- Ice reduces inflammation and swelling of muscular injuries. Most back pain problems are caused due to inflammation or swelling of muscles that result in pain.
- Ice has the potential to soothe sore muscle tissues and has a similar effect to an analgesic.
- The application of ice slows down nerve impulses and disrupts pain-spasm reactions. In other words, the nerves take longer to transmit pain messages to the brain.
- Ice helps reduce muscle tissue damage and shrinks veins, thus reducing circulation to the injured area. When the ice is removed, the veins overcompensate and there is a rush of blood to the area, thus promoting internal healing of tendons, ligaments, and tissues.
“Massage is the study of anatomy in braille.”
( Jack Meagher, a pioneer in the field of massage therapy)
( Jack Meagher, a pioneer in the field of massage therapy)
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