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Myofascial massage
This massage is used both for preventive treatment of stiffness and contracture of muscles. This technique works on the fascia (connective tissue resistance, which covers the muscle bellies, unites them to each other and allows the mutual flow) through the tractions and compressions that are performed at the level of painful areas and muscle areas in its entirety.
The main indications are represented by contractures and muscle extensibility, scarring (fibrosis and adhesions interfascial), the presence of reduced joint mobility.
The benefits of myofascial massage are to increase the blood supply, improve the venous and lymphatic flow, to restore smoothness to the tissues and then to change the perception of stiffness and pain. It is a slow and rhythmic massage, very localized to the affected area, with the fingers of the re-education plans move below the skin, engaging and moving them across the line of the affected tissue. It can last from 30 seconds to several minutes, it’s pretty painful, but very effective. Manhattan Massage will be the right place for massage therapy. Read the rest of this entry »
Electrotherapy is a treatment that uses electrical stimulation to the muscle bellies for aesthetic and therapeutic purposes. There consists of pairs of positive and negative electrodes placed in specific ways according to each treatment, where it regulates the intensity and duration of the waves.
Advantages
- Muscle work without injury and without physical effort.
- Increased muscle strength.
- Muscle hypertrophy (buttocks, thighs, abdomen, chest …)
- Specific treatment for cellulitis of any degree.
- Specific treatment for sagging.
- Postpartum treatment, which retrieves the figure in a few sessions.
- Improves blood and lymphatic circulation.
- Results achieved in very few sessions. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes it is common for a bad position, especially when you work many hours at the computer, your neck end of the day stressed and sore, so you are told a healthy and natural way to provide relief before going to bed.
In a comfortable position, either standing or sitting, spend an arm across the chest and placing the hands on the neck, gently tilting the head toward the opposite shoulder and tour the area with the tips of the fingers between the bottom of skull and shoulder downward, do this about 5 times and changed arm. Read the rest of this entry »
Tension builds up in our neck and chest areas and causes us to under-utilize our lungs. This can lead to poor posture, painful muscle spasms and neck and shoulder problems.
Learning to engage your diaphragm (breathing muscle) can induce relaxation and further introduce muscular release in the neck and shoulders. Read the rest of this entry »