Massage therapy: Career choice of Gen X
Basic types of massage therapy:
While there are numerous types of massage therapy. The basic techniques are:
Trigger point massage:
The trigger point massage focuses on the muscle fibers that can get dense after injuries or overuse during exercise.
Swedish massage:
The technique of Swedish massage involves deep circular movements along with kneading, long strokes, tapping, and vibration. These techniques help to energize and the muscles.
Sports massage:
Similar to the Swedish massage, sports massage is created especially for the sports person. This massage therapy ensures that the present and potential injuries can be treated with care and minimum use of allopathic medicines.
Deep massage:
The deep massage involves forceful yet slow strokes. The deep strokes target the deep muscles and joining tissues treating the injuries and muscle damage.
Benefits of massage therapy:
- Treats injuries
- Eliminates pain
- Reduces stress
- Provides better blood flow in body
- Helps in reducing anxiety
- Reduces and removes muscle tension
- Helps to treat Temporomandibular joint pain
- Improves posture
- Strengthens body immunity
- Helps with headaches and migraines
- Improves joint movement
- Improves the lymphatic drainage system
- Lowers blood pressure