Professional cycling teams, such as those you see riding the Tour de France, bring massage therapists with them to the races. Called a soigneur (pronounced swan-YUR), the massage therapist may have many other duties, but he or she is generally there to make sure each active member of the team gets 5-7 massages per week Read more…
Massage for Athletic Recovery
Massage for Headaches
You might think that “massage for headaches” would be a simple and straightforward topic. It’s anything but. For one thing, according to WebMD, there are 150 different kinds of headaches, and there’s no reason to suppose that whatever helps one type helps another as well. Of these 150 types, only six are common (migraine, cluster, Read more…
Massage for Neck Pain
According to The Idioms, the phrase “pain in the neck” originated as a less vulgar way to say “pain in the ass.” I guess one is more polite than the other. But I’ve had pains in both places, and I think a pain in the neck, all things being equal, is worse than a pain Read more…
Massage for Neck Pain
Your head weighs about 11 pounds, which means your neck supports 11 pounds all day, every day. If that sounds easy to you, grab a 10-pound dumbbell and see how long you can hold it up. You won’t last a day. On the basis of physics alone, it is easy to understand why neck pain Read more…
Massage for Tension Relief
Guest Blog by Nadine Mack, Clinical Hypnotist, LMT, RMT Have you ever felt the touch of a hand from another person and immediately released tension you didn’t even know you had? Then you have experienced massage for tension relief. Many years ago I was at a conference where the speaker was discussing physical touch and its Read more…
Massage for Sciatica
Is massage good for sciatica? It depends. The human back is a complicated structure. Whether massage can help your sciatica may depend on your individual back’s characteristics, as well as how you’ve used it over the years. The Delicate Human Back Evolution hasn’t had time to engineer the human back quite as effectively as it Read more…