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Massage and the Mental Health Connection
Massage therapy has been used as a healing method for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations all over the world utilized their own unique massage techniques to heal injuries, relieve pain, and even cure or prevent illnesses. Even today,…
How Important is Continuing Education For Massage Therapists?
For most fields of study, it is obvious that continuing education is not only important, but is a necessity.
Techniques are constantly evolving to become more effective and efficient and ideologies are always changing and progressing.…
What is an ASMR Massage?
It seems like everyday we discover a different type of technique floating around out there in the endless sea that is massage therapy.
One of our most recent discoveries is the ASMR massage which, compared to most other massage…
Massage Therapy and Temporomandibular Disorders
It’s not news that massages offer more benefits to us than just a few heavenly minutes of relaxation (and some peace and quiet) – in reality they can serve as a natural solution to many of the illnesses, injuries, and everyday aches and…
Gua Sha Massage: FAQ’s & Common Questions
You’ve probably heard of the Thai massage, and you’ve definitely heard of the Swedish massage, but have you ever heard of the Gua Sha massage?
Probably not – but that’s okay.
There are so many different “types” of massage therapy…
The Science of Massage: 5 Ways Massage Makes You Feel Better
It doesn’t take a scientist to know that getting a massage feels oh so good – but it does actually require science to explain why.
Sure, we all know the general reason why massages feel so good. A combination of the relaxing atmosphere,…
The Tingling Means It’s Working: Why Massages Make You Tingle
Of course we all know that massages make us feel good – they relax our bodies and our brains – but have you ever noticed that a massage can also cause somewhat of a tingling feeling?
Most commonly this tingling occurs in the hands or…
Ways to Celebrate EveryBody Deserves a Massage Week
At Massagetique, we believe in the importance of sharing the benefits of massage with the community. EveryBody Deserves a Massage week encourages massage therapists and bodyworkers across the country to come together and do just that. This…
5 Ways Aston-Patterning Can Improve Your Quality of Life
Regardless of who you are, where you are from, or what you do, something everyone has in common is the fact that our bodies can only handle so much. At some point in time our bodies will reach a limit; things that were once easy and…
The Alexander Technique – What It Is and How To Perform It
Everything about our world today is go go go.
We have been conditioned to believe that busier is better. This notion that the more we do and the faster we do it will make us happy, successful, or simply better than the next person.…