For Your Health
Massage Therapy
For Pain Free, Better Living
We develop different degrees of pain and aches depending on your activities.
Quite often they become chronic.
Causes of Pain
* Stress (mental, emotional, or physical)
* Repetitive (typing, using computer, painting, gardening, writing,
lifting, walking, standing, etc.)
* Personal (sleeping position, lateral tilt, sitting on wallet, clenching teeth,
smoking, sedentary lifestyle, etc.)
* Environment (car seat, chair, footwear, weather, nose, etc.)
* Poor posture (forward head posture, low self-esteem, improper biomechanics, etc.)
* Sports injuries (golfer’s elbow, tennis elbow, runner’s knew, over-enthusiastic exercise)
Why we develop aches and pain?
1. Muscle do suffer from wear and tear in our lives. Untreated, the area would
normally be felt as tight, fibrotic, binding, strained, sensitive, ischemic, adhesive, dehydrated and so on. In severe case, these unhealthy tissues would compress
nerves and cause a variety of pain (e.g. shooting, radiating).
Also blood supply is harder to get to these unhealthy areas (poor circulation),
you would start having numbness and hot or cold sensation.
2. When we live with aches and pains, we feel constricted, so we alter the way
we do things to lessen the pain. In other words, we change our posture,
use muscles that are not intended to be used, adding more stress and pain.
This would result in fatigue, irritability, change of personality, loss of sleep/
vitality/appetite, and so on. This is a situation called “compressed, repressed,
oppressed, depressed”, where the pain is controlling our lives.
We may become prone to sickness or injuries and our health may
become unbalanced.
Want to Change?
Do you wish you could get rid of aches and pains?
There may be many ways to do it, but massage therapy is a safe,
natural way to change your daily life into a more joyful one.
Why Massage Therapy?
Benefits and Goals
1. Treat unhealthy soft tissues including muscles, ligaments, tendons, and
fascia. Bring them back to a healthy condition, and ultimately alleviate pain.
Use manual manipulation of soft tissue and joint movements with a variety of techniques available today.
2. Bring more blood to different areas, promote healing of tissues, and
help gain control over activity.
3. Promote maintenance of your optimal condition and mental clarity.
Thought for Health
Wear and tear in the muscle tissues can cause problems in our bodies much like
wear and tear in a car. However, most of us take better care of our cars than our
own bodies by regularly changing oil and tune– ups because we know that good maintenance helps cars last longer and avoid expensive repairs. If we have awareness to maintain
our cars, why can’t we do the same with our own bodies?
The benefits of massage therapy does not stop at bringing unhealthy tissues
back to normal;
it is a good way to tune up your body mechanism to be at the optimal condition
without the use of drugs. This way, you are less likely to get illness or injury.
Therefore, massage therapy is often regarded as preventive or alternative medicine.
Isn’t it sensible to get a tune– up for our bodies once in a while?
