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Massage Therapy:
Is a profession in which the practitioner applies manual techniques and applies adjunctive therapies. The intention of positively affecting the health and well being of a client.

Swedish Massage:
Uses a system of long strokes, kneading, and friction percussive and other techniques on the more superficial layers of muscles.  It is used primarily for full-body sessions and promotes general relaxation.  It promotes blood circualtion and better range of motion.  Swedish is the most common type of massage.

Deep Tissue:
Releases the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and firm finer pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the grain of muscles, tendons, and fascia.  It is called deep tissue because it also focuses on the deeper layers of tissue.

Sports Massage Therapy:
Is classified into three main categories:  Maintenance, Event, and Rehabilitation.  Mainatenance massage is a regular program of massage to help the athletics optimal performance through injury-free training.  Event massage takes place before, during, and after competition to supplement an athlete's warm-up, readying the athlete for top performance and/or to reduce the muscle spasms and metabolic build-up that occurs with vigorous excercise techniques and enhance the body's recovery process, improving the athletes return to high-level and competition, and reducing the risk of injury.  Rehabilitation massage techniques are after the management of both acute and chronic injuries.

Shiatsu & Acupressure:
Are systems of finger-pressure massage, based on Oriental concepts, which treat special points along "meridians", the invisible channels of energy found in our body.  Energy blocked along these meridians can cause physical discomfort, so the aim is targeting the blockage and re-balance the energy flow.  They can be used for the full body or for specific areas of the body.

Trigger Point Therapy:
(also known as Myotherapy or Neuromuscular Therapy)
Applies finer pressure to "trigger points" (painful irritated areas in muscles) to break cycles of spasm and pain.

Massage Contraindications:

Significant Fever
Systematic Contagious/Infectious Conditions
Pneumonia in Acute Stages
Blood Clotting Problems
(Vericose Veins)
Hemophilia, Hemorrhage
Diabetes with Complications
Shock (all types)
Advanced Kidney, Respiratory, Liver Failure
Highly Mea Static Cancers
Severe Arteriosclerosis, Osteoporosis, Hypertension

Complications:

If Hypertension if not detected and treated, life-threatening complications develop over a course of years.  Increased Pressure on the inner walls of blood vessels makes the vessels less flexible over time and more vulnerable to the buildup of fatty deposits in the process known as Atherosclerosis.  Weakened portions of the blood vessel wall my balloon, forming an aneurysm.
Hypertension affects 20 percent of people living in the United States. 
Of these, almost a third are unaware of their condition.

It is important to understand conditions which may compromise your lifestyle!