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Articles: massage
Below are the articles associated with this topic. Click on a title to read one. A Brief History of Chair Massage
by David Palmer
Chair Massage is fast becoming the most popular form of skilled touch on the contemporary bodywork landscape.
Aftercare or Afterthought? What Happens at the End of the Massage Session
by Su Fox
The column concludes that consultation, massage treatment, aftercare – at the beginning, during and after a session – have a valuable place in good holistic massage practice.
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage
by Hamish Topp
This passive yoga stretching increases joint mobility and ligament flexibility and is thus an excellent tool for motor rehabilitation. In addition, ancient techniques involving the application of pressure with the feet at certain points in the treatment provides a very deep relaxation to the muscles and gives a strong stimulus to the blood circulation, thus delaying the ageing process.
Biodynamic Massage: A Truly Therapeutic Massage
by Denise McCrohan
Biodynamic Massage works across a wide spectrum from deep muscular work, to connective tissue massage, to light energetic touch and work in the aura.
Body Massage Treatment - A Holiday Treat
by Jolanta Basnyet
A truly relaxing holiday for me is a holiday with body massage or any other form of natural treatments (not necessarily tactile).
Chinese Tuina for Acute Lumbar Strain
by Zhou Tao
This article looks at the Oriental bodywork therapy of Tuina. This therapy is used to promote healing and relieve pain by increasing the circulation of Qi and blood. It can be likened to a form of massage where the pressure varies as does the rate of application.
Critical Bodywork Advice for Massage Practitioners
by Gerry Pyves
This is a follow-up to the article Gerry Pyves wrote for Positive Health four years ago in which he launched NO HANDS massage. Since then, the technique has become the fastest growing bodywork approach in the UK. His concern was for the injuries sustained by massage therapists during the practice of their craft.
Dynamic Bodyuse in Massage
by Andy Fagg and Darien Pritchard
Massage is about movement, both within the client but also on the part of the practitioner. Effective movement and bodyuse by the massage therapist can be a key to good treatment, both in terms of physical ease and creating appropriate atmosphere.
Eastern Approaches to Clinical Therapy
by Gretchen De Soriano
This article illustrates the value of Eastern approaches to treatment in cases where individuals have acted as 'gatekeepers' to restoring their own health through making informed choices about the most suitable complementary therapy for their condition. This self-referral by the patient is termed 'higher order integration'.
Esalen Massage: Deep Connections
by Lucia Appleby
Founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Richard Price to explore unrealized human potential, the Esalen Institute in California has consistently been at the forefront of new developments and discoveries in the fields of psychology and bodywork. As well as being a spiritual retreat and healing spa, the Institute offers workshops and lectures ranging from massage through gestalt to sustainable environments.
Exploring Integrative Massage Therapy
by Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar
Integrative Massage Therapy (IMT) is a technique that combines elements from different modalities, such as touch and massage, Reichian bodywork/body rhythms, neuro-linguistic programming and psychotherapy, hypnotherapy/trancework, stress management, movement, reflective listening, shamanic work (e.g. journeys, storytelling and healing) and meridian therapies.
Facing It
by Clare Maxwell-Hudson
Regular columnist Clare Maxwell-Hudson examines how face massage can be a powerful tool and that there is more to it than beauty. Applying sensitive touch to the face can overcome resistance towards relaxation during a body massage.
Hawaiian Huna Massage
by Rosalie Samet
Recapturing the long-forgotten wisdom of the ancient people of Hawaii, this type of bodywork has been practised in the healing temples by Kahuna Priests as a sacred rite of passage for thousands of years.
Holistic Massage
by Sara Thomas & Lucy Lidell
In essence, massage is simply touch that is caring and sensitive – healing hands stroking and soothing, giving comfort and nourishment to the body.
In the Event of Your Death?
by Su Fox
The author was impressed by an article about a 91-year-old massage therapist, who has been massaging for sixty years and has just had her license renewed. But evidently, she may not be practising for many more years, and all of us will leave this planet at some point.
Injury Prevention for Massage Practitioners
by Lauriann Green
Now the good news: there is a great deal you can do to protect yourself from injury related to your massage work.
Injury Prevention Massage
by Jennifer Longmore
Statistics estimate that about 1.2 million working people suffer from musculo-skeletal disorders and everyday about six workers give up their jobs because of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). Other common conditions are: Cumulative Trauma Disorders, Occupational Overuse Injuries, Work Related Upper Limb Disorder, Back Pain, Neck Pain, etc. Many of these injuries stem from demands placed on the body, improper posture, high stress levels, lack of exercise and weight problems.
Kahi Loa - Traditional Hawai'ian Healing Massage
by Cornelia Biegler
A healer and homoeopath, I had began to wonder if somewhere there was a healing system in existence that involved a hands-on approach, and provided individuals with an empowering philosophy at the same time. . .
Letter to a Newly Qualified Practitioner from a Massage Elder
by Su Fox
The information contained in Su Fox’s latest column are indeed exciting and valuable, and to be treasured by newly and experienced practitioners alike. She refers to herself as a Massage Elder.
Lomi Lomi - Ka Huna Massage
by Stephen Langley
This healing system is derived from the ancient Polynesian methods of restoring balance to the body, mind and soul (Huna). Through this treatment of the physical body, powerful healing is able to take place more quickly and completely on the physical, psychological and spiritual levels.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage and its Therapeutic Benefits
by Anne Willis
MLD is a highly specialised form of massage, which uses light, rhythmical, very precise hand movements, pressures and sequences and requires the therapist to develop a great degree of skill, having an intimate knowledge of the workings of the anatomy of the lymphatic system.
Massage and Complex Trauma: A Case Study
by Su Fox
In this column on Body Massage, the author presents a case study of massage techniques regarding a client who suffered complex trauma as a result of prolonged, overwhelming abuse and neglect from early childhood.
Massage and the Importance of Medical Input
by Su Fox
The author, a Massage, Craniosacral and Psychotherapist, focuses on the importance of medical input in relation to body massage. As her brother is a Medical Consultant, she is in the fortunate position of being able to seek his advice easily on, for example, the possible effects of light massage on neuralgia or how a particular medication acts on the nervous system.
Massage is Relaxing. Discuss...
by Su Fox
In this column, the author discusses the ‘massage is relaxing phenomenon’ and the role of bilateral stimulation of the brain that may also contribute to this phenomenon, which she came across in two new therapeutic techniques.
Massage Matters: Massage and Medication
by Su Fox
This column focuses on the use of proper medication and massage techniques on an elderly woman with a complex medical picture....as she suffers from lower back pain due to wear and tear on her dorsal intervertebral discs, which causes occasional sciatic pain; chronic asthma and a tendency to develop bronchitis in winter; hypertension, varicose veins, angina, partial blockage of an artery to the heart and oedema in both legs. Other conditions include right shoulder pain and restricted mobility, arthritic thumb joints and an inoperable torn cruciate ligament.
Massage Techniques for Childbirth
by Linda Kimber
Touch, in the form of a positive massage during labour, was an area I wanted to explore to determine whether it is a useful way of shifting the focus of active support away from the midwife and towards the birthing partner. The following article summarises a review I undertook of my practice of massage techniques in labour.
Massage Therapy for people with Cancer: A Practitioner's Experience
by Louise Roy
In this article, Louise Roy describes her experience with one cancer patient and discusses the challenges facing massage practitioners. During training, many massage students are warned that giving massage to people with cancer might cause its spread. This is not, however, the belief of all experts.
No-Hands Massage
by Gerry Pyves
Gerry Pyves describes how pain in his hands and wrists did not stop him from continuing with his massage practice. Instead, he developed the injury-free No-Hands Massage technique, which took ten years to reach its final form following monthly Professional Development meetings and feedback from over 100 clinically trained bodyworkers.
Not All Massage Tables Are Created Equal
by Spencer Randon
This article would be particularly invaluable for a newly qualified, or even more experienced person working in the healing professions using bodywork.
Nothing New Under The Sun
by Clare Maxwell-Hudson
Dr James Mennel, Head of the Department of Massage at St Thomas’ Hospital (London) early in the last century, first brought out his book on massage in 1934. In this, her first column for Positive Health entitled ‘A Licence to Touch’, Clare Maxwell-Hudson, who runs her own massage school and is an acclaimed writer on massage, compares Mennel’s general rules of massage with the qualities that she has noticed amongst her own most successful students.
On-Site Seated Acupressure Massage
by David Woodhouse
That which has generically become known in the Western world as 'On-Site Massage' has its roots in the Orient, as indeed do many other therapies.
RhythmMobility
by Darien Pritchard
Darien Pritchard has been practising massage for 25 years, and describes how he developed the Rhythm-Mobility technique, having noticed how clients' often resist massage and are unable to let go. Exerting more force in massage in such cases is counter-productive as the body feels that it is under attack and its response is to tense up. He has found that using gentle vibration and rhythmical movements can bypass such reactions and simultaneously energize the client and encourage the release of deep tensions.
Sports Massage - A Therapy for All
by Wrio Russell
Although the name 'sports massage therapy' suggests that it is only suitable for athletes and dancers, Wrio Russell, a qualified massage therapist and founder director of the London School of Sports Massage, dispels this myth and shows how it is also a therapy for 'ordinary' people.
Standards in Massage Therapy
by Leon Chaitow, ND DO
A question which I am regularly asked deserves an honest answer. "How do you find the standard of massage therapist here compared with elsewhere?"
Thai Traditional Massage
by Maria Mercati
Touch is and always has been powerful medicine. It soothes, relaxes, comforts and heals. Massage is the means whereby touch is applied in diverse ways to achieve these effects. Thai massage represents the ultimate touch experience. At any entirely non-sexual level it involves the most complex physical interaction between giver and receiver of any form of massage practised at the present time.
The Application of Massage in Psychogenic Disorders
by Mario-Paul Cassar
Cassar discusses the use of massage in psychogenic disorders. It is well known that massage relaxes us and can benefit us on emotional levels, but can it help with more complex behavioural and neurological dysfunctions? Recent research has been undertaken by The Touch Research Institutes at the University of Miami School of medicine and the Nova Southeastern University, Florida, headed by Dr Tiffany Field.
The Healing Benefits of Oriental Massage
by Maria Mercati
This article is about four different types of Oriental Massage: Tui Na, Shiatsu, Thai massage and Indonesian massage. Although these are all distinct forms of therapy with their own history and philosophy they have some common roots and are all holistic in that they regard the body as a whole and disease as an imbalance in the whole, not just one part.
The Massage Practitioner and the Medical Profession - Then and Now
by Su Fox
This article focuses on the changes over the years on massage techniques and requirements. The author says massage is no longer just a therapy of indulgence and pampering but one that people with chronic medical conditions choose to complement their medical treatments.
The Power Of Voluntary Work
by Clare Maxwell-Hudson
Regular contributor Clare Maxwell-Hudson shows how voluntary work has been a valuable part of societies all over the world. A large study in Michigan found that those who did voluntary work had death rates two and a half times lower than those who did not.
Tuina: A complete holistic healing system from China
by Maria Mercati
Tried and tested over 4,000 years and still regularly used by over one fifth of the world’s population, Tuina is still little known in the West. Maria, who is an established teacher of oriental therapies, learned her skills in China, Indonesia and Thailand from acknowledged masters in their respective fields. Here, she introduces its basic principles and shows how relevant its healing powers are in today’s world.
Whole Meridian Massage Therapy
by Zhu Gang
This article focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine body massage and the meridians, the route to promoting better blood and energy circulation and overall communication between the interior, exterior, lower and upper parts of the body.
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