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Natural Healing Through Massage Therapy In San Diego

By Lynn Nguyen


People long ago have used massage well before the introduction of modern medicine, well before surgery, drugs or needles. People used massage to heal their aliments.

The basic instinct to feel touch when hurt is as natural as our flight or fight response. Many physicians believe the powers of massage, no matter how deep or superficial it is.

Massage has developed greatly over time! There are in fact many different types of massage techniques but we have listed four of the most commonly used methods from our own office experience.

SWEDISH MASSAGE works the whole body using a tapping, soothing and kneading strokes to relieve tension and heal sore joints. Swedish massage is superficial and have basic strokes; effleurage or stroking; petrissage or muscle lifting and grabbing; friction or use of fingers and thumbs working the deep thick muscles; tapotement or chopping tapping or beating movements; and vibration for finger pressed firmly on the muscles, then the area is stimulated quickly for several seconds. The effleurage and tapoement strokes are the most popular.

DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE works deeper than a Swedish massage, working past the couple of layers that Swedish massage does. The slow deep strokes and pressure from the deep muscle techniques work across the grain of the muscle. therapist use their fingers thumbs and arms to apply the pressure to help release the muscle tension and spasm from injuries.

SPORTS MASSAGE is designed to help you train better, and recover quicker, .whether you're a world class athlete or a weekend enthusiast. The techniques are similar to those in Swedish and Deep tissue massage, but can be altered to meet an individual athletes needs. Pre-competition massage can help warm up muscles and improve circulation before competition, and also energize or relax an athlete and help him or her focus on the competition. Post-competition massage can help rid toxins and waste products out of the body and increase recovery time.

NEUROMUSCULAR MASSAGE is a deep tissue massage used to target a specific muscle group. This technique is used for increased blood flow reduce pain and pressure in the muscles or nerves from injuries. Trigger point release and muscle adhesion break ups are performed with this massage. This massage is best used with spinal manipulation, physical therapy and other physical medicine techniques.




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