Massage Therapy
What is a massage? Massage is the manipulation of deeper and superficial layers of connective tissue and muscle that can improve your health, help in the healing process and promote resting time and well-being. Massage involves acting on and manipulating the body with pressure – structured, unstructured, stationary, or moving – tension, motion, or vibration performed manually with hands or with mechanical aids. In professional settings, massage involves the customer being treated while lying on a massage table, sitting in a massage chair, or lying on a mat on the floors.
The word massage comes from the Arabic massa which means “to touch, feel or handle, or from French massage “friction of kneading”, or from Latin massa which means “mass, dough”, Greek verb ????? (masso) “to handle, touch, to work with the fingers, to knead dough”. In distinction the Latin word for massage was frictio, and the ancient Greek was anatripsis.
Literature about massage have been found in many ancient civilizations such as Rome, Greece, India, Japan, China, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Hippocrates wrote in 460 BC that “The physician need to be knowledgeable in lots of things, but assuredly in rubbing”. A possible biblical reference from c.493 BC documents every day “treatments” with oil of myrrh as a component of the beauty regimen of the wives of Xerxes (Esther, 2:12).
The Ancient Chinese book known as Huangdi Neijing recommended “massage of skin and flesh”. The technique of massage abortion, involving the application of pressure to the pregnant abdomen, has been practiced in Southeast Asia for centuries. One of the bas reliefs decorating the temple in Cambodia, dated circa 1150, depicts a devil carrying out such an abortion on a woman who has been sent to the underworld. This relief is believed to be the oldest recognized visual representation of abortion.
In the US, massage started to become well-known in the 19th century and was introduced based on Per Henrik Ling’s techniques.
During the 1930s and 1940s massage’s impact decreased as a result of medical advancements of the time, while in the 1970s massage’s impact grew popular once again with a notable rise among athletes. Massage treatment was used up till the 1960s and 1970s by nurses to help reduce patients’ discomfort and help them rest.
Massages therapy can have a lot of useful effects to the body. Medical study has demonstrated that the positive aspects of massage treatment include pain relief, decreased trait anxiousness and depression, and momentarily reduced heart rate, blood pressure, and state of anxiety. Theories behind what massage may do include blocking nociception (gate control theory), activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which could stimulate the release of endorphins and serotonin, preventing scar tissue or fibrosis, increasing the movement of lymph, and improving rest.
But sometimes, getting a massage is just not easy. Thankfully, these days you can have it with a Massage Chair. The goal is to emulate the techniques and motions of an actual masseuse. A great massage chair is created to provide some measure of comfort, pain relief and rest for your body. But, without the need for person-to-person interaction. Getting a massage at home every time you need, along with time efficiency and convenience, are some of the reasons why most opt for a massage chair. But of course, not all massage chairs are great.
The massage chairs we recommend is the iJoy series from Human Touch. iJoy Massage Chair is equipped with the Human Touch Technology, the best technology currently available that could imitate the hands of professional masseuse. It surely the kind of massage chair that can give you the type of massage you’d wish.
Visit iJoy robotic massage chair or maybe Human Touch perfect chair to find the best massage chair.
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