Massage is an ancient technique that emerged as an objective necessity. Who hasn't noticed that when you massage a sore spot it hurts less, or when you've bumped yourself and rub the painful area it hurts less? This is how a sophisticated technique developed in which the maneuvers play an essential role in human health.
Massage has been used throughout the centuries by both upper classes, aristocracy, and common people. It has been performed by non-specialists and specialists alike. Over time, this activity has acquired healing properties. In certain cases, massage is essential and indispensable for healing, treating conditions, recovery and restoration after major suffering.
Massage maintains health, restores youth, rejuvenates the body, fights aging, and plays the greatest role in relaxation. Performed by a specialist, it reveals all its secrets, fills you with satisfaction, unwinds and relaxes you. The hand of a massage specialist is recognized immediately when it acts upon you, and you feel how the body yields to any reflexive resistance or tension, even if you have never had a massage before.
Massage is a delight, not an ordeal; it is a necessity, not an obligation. A massage should bring you joy, relaxation, comfort and a good mood. When you're feeling down, when you've had a tough day, when you feel fatigued - don't let worries overwhelm you, treat yourself to a massage and life will smile at you, you'll truly feel alive. Make a habit of having a weekly massage and you'll have the secret to eternal youth, permanent optimism and the feeling that no illness can defeat you.
Therapeutic massage
Therapeutic massage has beneficial effects on the skin, blood circulation, muscles, nerves, joints and internal organs and is practiced for treating the following conditions:
- Joint and tendon conditions
- Conditions with spinal deformities
- Muscular conditions
- Traumatic conditions of the locomotor system
- Vascular conditions
- Neurological conditions
- Metabolic conditions
- Rheumatic conditions
Anti-cellulite massage
Cellulite is an inflammation of the subcutaneous cellular tissue or around organs and manifests through increased volume of the subcutaneous tissue, appearance of nodules, increased sensitivity to touch, decreased skin mobility and orange peel appearance. It usually settles at the hip, thigh, knee, ankle, nape, chin, spine and arm level. Anti-cellulite massage aims to activate blood circulation and lymphatic drainage, remove fat deposits in the affected areas, contribute to skin smoothing and intensive body detoxification.
Relaxation massage
Relaxation massage aims to rapidly eliminate fatigue, achieve muscular relaxation and improve daily comfort. Additionally, relaxation massage contributes to accelerating the rate of toxin elimination from the body and to better tissue regeneration. Massage charges us with energy, vitalizes us, because it sets blood in motion, increases metabolism and oxygen exchange at the cellular level. In this way, metabolic breathing intensifies, toxin burning accelerates and cells shed waste. Thus, the body's energetic balance is restored and the functions of all organs are re-established.
Furthermore, it is a way to combine the useful with the pleasant, to simultaneously pay attention to both soul and body. Massage amplifies the "happiness hormone" - serotonin. Massage is one of the most practiced and appreciated methods of recovery and restoration of physical and mental energy. It restores vigor, good mood, and skilled hands transform it into therapy, a giver of health. Massage, elevated to the level of art, relaxes not only our muscles, but also our psyche. By increasing circulation in the massaged areas, it contributes to toxin elimination, improves the level of the "happiness hormone" - serotonin, which protects us against depression and mental disorders.
Massage - psychological effect. Massage has a clear psychological effect. Since massage awakens the tactile sense, the primary sense of the body, it removes the tension generated by the mind's constant preoccupation with problems. Also, muscular relaxation can lead to the release of repressed emotions. Headaches, insomnia, digestive disorders including constipation, arthritis, asthma, sinusitis, as well as minor pains are some of the problems that improve through massage therapy. Depending on the intended purpose, the massage therapist chooses a combination of maneuvers and techniques, thus performing: relaxation massage, therapeutic massage, lymphatic drainage, anti-cellulite massage, etc.
In summary, the advantages of massage are:
- Inducing a sense of well-being, both physically and emotionally
- Reducing physical and mental stress
- Reducing muscle tension
- Healing migraines and headaches
- Eliminating toxins
- Improving blood and lymph circulation
- Lowering blood pressure
- Increasing range of motion in joints
- Increasing endorphin levels
- Reducing anxiety
- Removing depression
- Improving concentration ability
- Removing mental and physical fatigue
- Reducing stress at superficial or deep levels
- Removing sleep-related problems
- Can be received by people of any age
Reflexotherapy
Massage doesn't only have the role of relaxing us; it's also beneficial to health. It stimulates blood circulation and relaxes the muscles. Moreover, there is a certain form of massage that has a direct influence on the proper functioning of our body. This massage is known as reflexotherapy.
5000 years ago, traditional Chinese medicine was based on the principles of reflexotherapy. The Chinese consider the foot the guardian of health, this word meaning in Chinese the part of the body that protects health. In traditional Chinese medicine, the foot is a miniature representation of the human body.
Reflexotherapy is a preventive method based on strengthening the immune system by massaging key points. These reflex points are located in the sole and palm and, according to Chinese medicine, correspond to an organ, a gland or a specific part of the body.