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Top 10 Massage Therapies

So, after reading the post about “Massage Therapy: The New Trend In Town”, were you interested in going for an experimental trial for your own relaxation purposes?

In case you didn’t know, massage therapy has been around for hundreds of years, but due to the sudden ‘in’ trend, this industry is now blooming and the time can never be better for them. So, if you need to relief your stress, muscle pains and solve other health problems, you should know that this therapies have a century long backing to their claims.

Today, I’ll be sharing with you 10 best types of massage therapy out there in the market.

1. The Swedish Massage

This is the most common type of massage in the United States as it bestows the customer to be able to enjoy a gentle yet relaxing time. The masseuse will use long strokes in kneading and circular movements on our superficial layers of muscle using massage lotion or oil. Definitely refreshing

2. Aromatherapy

Aroma itself shows that this therapy session uses one or more scented plant oils during the session and better still, you get to choose the aroma you want to use and each one of the plant oil is specific in helping treat a problem. The lavender oil is often used in the therapy of stress related conditions together with an emotional component.

3. Hot Stone Massage

This massage sounds really hot but I’m sure you will definitely want to try this out. By placing heated smooth stones on certain parts of the body, our tighten muscles will be loosened and it will help in balancing the energy in our body. The masseuses may sometimes apply some pressure to points that customers have muscle tensions.

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4. Deep Tissue Massage

Deep tissue massage is a therapy session specially designed to target the deeper layers of the muscle and connective tissues hidden from the naked eyes. Providing slow strokes as a friction technique across the grain of muscles, this will help to rejuvenate chronically tight and painful muscles. However, after this you will feel sore for the next day or two but after that, you definitely will say “Never felt better!”

5. Shiatsu

A type of Japanese therapy, the masseuse will use localized finger pressure in a rhythmic sequence on specific points of the body. These points are pressed on for 2 – 8 seconds and will help improve energy flow and regain body balance. Relaxing yet firm, claimed by people who tried it, no soreness will be felt after this massage.

6. Thai Massage

Quite similar to Shiatsu, it helps in aligning the energies of the body by using gentle pressure on specific points of the body but the difference in Thai Massage is they help to provide compression and stretches like yoga and better yet, you just have to lie down and relax while the masseuses work on you.

7. Pregnancy Massage

For the ladies, it helps to relieve stress, decrease swelling, relieve aches and pains while reducing anxiety and depression of these pregnant ladies.

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8. Reflexology

A therapy designed for the foot, also applying pressure to certain points on the foot and it is believed that foot corresponds to certain organs and systems so if you are able to work on that, your whole body is considered treated.

9. Sports Massage

Those that are involved in sports activities would enjoy this as the massage attained will help them prevent and treat physical injuries.

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