Massage Therapy
Massage therapy involves applying pressure or vibration to the soft tissues of the body, including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, and joints. A massage therapy treatment is applied to a part of the body, or successively to the whole body; objectives may be to relieve psychological stress, heal injury, manage pain, improve circulation and relieve tension.
Where massage is used for its physical and psychological benefits, it may be also be termed remedial massage therapy or therapeutic massage.
The Massage Session – Most massage techniques involve the client being treated lying down on a massage table. Although the massage subject is generally unclothed, their body is “draped” with towels or sheets. This also helps keep the subject warm. Intimate parts of the body are normally not touched at all in therapeutic massage.
The treatment normally starts with the client face down for the first part of the session, and they then roll over (hidden by the towels) for the second part of the session, which is carried out face up…
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