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Healing Touch: How Massage Therapy Benefits Your Lymphatic System

  When we think of massage therapy, relaxation and stress relief often come to mind. However, massage therapy offers more than just a momentary escape from our daily worries. It can also provide significant benefits to our overall health, including support for the lymphatic system.   The lymphatic system plays a crucial role in maintaining our body’s fluid balance, immune function, and toxin removal. Unlike the circulatory system, the lymphatic system doesn’t have a central pump like the heart. Instead, it relies [...]

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Take The Weight Off Your Shoulders

Your shoulders are one of the most common areas of discomfort and pain in the body. The shoulder consists of three main bones, humerus, clavicle, and scapula that operate in a ball and socket joint system. The bones are surrounded by layers of cartilage, tendons and muscle fibres. With such a complicated construction, it is easy to see how there could be  multiple opportunities for pain and mobility issues to develop.   Pain can be generated in the shoulder area due [...]

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Get Stretched Like A Cat – Myofascial Massage to Free Your Body

    When injury or chronic issues with your back, shoulders, hips or other areas of the body causes pain and loss of flexibility or function, it is usually the soft connective tissue in the affected area that is in need of attention. Pain can result when connective tissue called fascia become bound up causing contractions of muscle fibers as well as restricted blood flow in the tightened area. When your body hurts, myofascial therapy can help restore your mobility and [...]

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Massage Therapy and the Long Reach of the Vagus Nerve

From the links below, we learn that “the vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve that runs from the brain stem to the large intestine. It is appropriately named from the Latin work “vagus” which means “wandering” and is responsible for multiple functions of internal organs in the body.” As well, it plays a vital role in regulating your overall physical and mental wellbeing. Your vagus nerve helps control sensory and motor functions of the sympathetic system  (fight or flight [...]

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Healthy Sleep Through Massage Therapy

Regular periods of sleep are key to a healthy body and a clear mind, as it is during sleep that your body renews itself ~Daily Om   It seems that sleep is the greatest variable in our busy lives. If we have too much to do that cannot fit into a regular day, sleep is the area that we often sacrifice. We can work into the early hours of the morning, sleep a few hours and wake up to face a [...]

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How Too Much Sitting Affects Your Health

Historically, the human body was made to withstand constant motion. In our ancestral past, the days were filled with walking, running, hunting, gathering, farming and the like. Today, most of our time is taken up with us firmly planted in front of a computer screen with little motion or variety in our activities. Today, the majority of the population worldwide leans toward jobs and focus that are sedentary lifestyles. According to the World Health Organization statistics, sedentary lifestyles are a [...]

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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Massage Therapy

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a painful systemic illness that affects multiple parts of the body. It is commonly thought that it mostly causes pain as inflammation attacks cartilage and bone in the joints. People who have been diagnosed often use medication and other techniques such as heat/ice, rest and other techniques to manage their debilitating symptoms. One consideration for therapeutic support where sufferers are often cautious, is massage therapy.  The worry is that using the stroke and pressure techniques [...]

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A Fascinating Look at Our Cells and Why Massage is Vital to Cellular Health

Were you aware just how enormous the cellular structure in our body really is?  On average, science has determined that our population of cells within our body totals somewhere around 37 trillion that includes some 50 billion fat cells, two billion heart muscle cells and 240 billion cells in a healthy liver! Cells are the basic building blocks of all the systems and organs in the human body. They cells work together with similar cells to form tissues and tissues [...]

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Peripheral Neuropathy and Massage Therapy

Your peripheral nervous system connects the nerves from your brain and spinal cord, or central nervous system, to the rest of your body including your arms, hands, legs, feet, face, mouth and internal organs. This system delivers signals about physical sensations from the extremities back to your brain. Your peripheral nervous system is also responsible for such primary bodily functions as blood circulation and food digestion. Peripheral neuropathy is a condition that disrupts the normal functioning of the nerves within [...]

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Massage Therapy for Your Hands

Our hands serve us all our lives – they connect with others, carry groceries, make meals, heal our loved ones, communicate with others, wipe away tears, nourish, touch and love. It seems important then, for us to treat our   hands with the same support they give to us in life. One of the ways we can do that is through massage therapy.   “The health benefits of massage therapy are well-documented, and a hand massage is no exception. Having your hands massaged [...]

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