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Massage is essential for the human body. The Greeks, Persians and Chinese practiced massage as a spiritual art. Now, as then, massage is not only a powerful therapy for recovery from tension and fatigue; it's also a powerful tool of preventative medicine, valuable in keeping people healthy.
Here's why - a short anatomy lesson: Your body is nourished, cleansed and maintained by your blood and lymph systems. Pumped by your heart, your blood circulates oxygen and nutrients to your muscles, where they are converted into energy. A by-product of this process is lactic acid, which is filtered out with other toxic wastes and carried away by your lymph system - the same miraculous 'sanitary system' that is in charge of your immunity, protecting you from disease. When activity becomes strenuous, however, this process loses its efficiency. Energy requirements exceed supply. And you feel it when the force of your swing at a tennis ball, for instance, isn't as hard after two hours of play as it was when you started. A similar problem occurs with too little activity - when you've been at your desk too long and find your mind slower, your irritation higher, and tension grabbing your neck and shoulders. In both cases, lactic acid accumulates. Your muscles become cramped and sluggish. Blood and lymph flow decrease. And fatigue sets in.
Doesn't rest take care of all of this? Eventually, yes. Rest is your body's natural means of recuperation. But it takes time, as you know. And in the active, demanding pace of life today, there is rarely enough time for enough rest. The result is that the damaging effects are compounded, day after day, affecting not only the way you feel and function right now but also your future well being.
Massage - the vital difference. Massage can make a vital difference. Massage speeds up the recuperation process dramatically, reducing recovery time by half, rejuvenating your blood and lymph systems, helping to keep you healthy.
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Beneficial Effects of Shatsu Massage
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An excerpt from "Survival into the 21st Century", by Viktoras Kulvinskas :
- Massage dilates the blood vessels, improving the circulation and relieving congestion throughout the body.
- Massage acts as a "mechanical cleanser" stimulating lymph circulation and hastening the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
- Massage increases the number of red blood cells especially in cases of anemia.
- Massage increases blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Massage thus helps to prevent buildup of harmful "fatigue" products resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.
- Massage can compensate, in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction in persons who because of injury, illness or age are forced to remain inactive. In these cases, massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ.
- Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity.
- Massage may have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending on the type and length of massage treatment given.
- According to some authorities, massage may burst the fat capsule in subcutaneous tissue so that the fat exudes and becomes absorbed. In this way massage, combined with a nutritious but calorie-deficient diet, can be an aid to reducing.
- Massage increases the excretion (via the kidneys) of fluids and waste products of protein metabolism, inorganic phosphorus and salt in normal individuals.
- Massage by improving the general circulation, increases nutrition of the tissues. It is accompanied or followed by an increased interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells heightening tissue metabolism.
- Massage encourages the retention of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur necessary for tissue repair in persons convalescing from bone fractures.
- Massage improves the circulation and nutrition of joints and hastens the elimination of harmful deposits. It helps lessen inflammation and swelling in joints and so alleviates pain.
- Massage stretches connective tissue, improves its circulation and nutrition and so breaks down or prevents the formation of adhesions and reduces the danger of fibrosis.
- Massage helps to reduce edema (or dropsy) of the extremities.
- Massage disperses the edema following injury to ligaments.
- Massage makes you feel good!
- All the home massage chairs in the Factory Outlet online catalog help with basic healing. Find out which product is right for you with our chair review section.
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Health-Benefits
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Metabolism :
Massage improves nutrition of tissue and heightens metabolism. It acts as a cleanser to eliminate water and toxins. Massage increases the blood supply which brings more nutrients to the muscles. Muscle Tone:
Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity or age.
Tension :
Massage relaxes muscle spasms and relieves tension. It also stimulates sensory nerves hick helps relieve headaches. Reducing:
Massage combined with a healthy nutritious diet can be a great aid in reducing and contouring the body.
Circulation :
Massage improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Improved circulation is a step in preventing heart attacks and strokes. Brisk massage restores the body's vigor!
Injury :
Massage helps eliminate edema (the excessive accumulation of liquid in tissue) lessens pain, and facilitates whole body movement.
Aching muscles are a common symptom of our fast paced society; and time constraints make easing these aches and pains even more difficult.
When it comes to your health you deserve the very best and The Factory Outlet massage chair features the finest line of therapeutic health care equipment. The rising cost of health care has left many searching for ways to help relieve and prevent everyday aches and pains. TheFactoryOutlet.com has what you're looking for.
With our professional massage chairs, you can benefit from the ancient techniques of a Japanese massage at any time.
Our Chairs simulate the finger pressure technique of a trained masseur. The rotating message balls utilize a pressure-release formation to soothe away muscle tension in the back, shoulders, neck, feet, arms and legs. This advanced massager allows you the privacy of a deep, penetrating massage in your contemporary home or office. The unique, built-in timer feature lets you program the desired length. Our professional massage chairs gives you the convenience of a personalized massage at your fingertips.
Definition of our massage technique
Shiatsu is a Japanese word: "shi" meaning finger, and "atsu" meaning pressure. But shiatsu is more than standard acupressure. It is a combination of many different techniques, including pressing, hooking, sweeping, shaking, rotating, grasping, vibrating, patting, plucking, lifting, pinching, rolling, brushing, and, in one school developed by Suzuki Yamamoto.
Barefoot shiatsu includes walking on the person's back, legs, and feet. In the practice of shiatsu, each person is primarily responsible for his or her own health and well-being. This contrasts with accepted Western beliefs that the medical practitioner is principally responsible for our health. In Western medicine an awareness of the unique significance of touch, the essential form of communication between two human beings in the fight to subdue pain, has all but disappeared; certainly it has become minimal. The importance of touch, just touch itself, has been acknowledged as a primary means to mitigate pain.
Shiatsu strengthens the immune system and, if practiced consistently, truly becomes preventive health care. Who can benefit from shiatsu? Early on, George Balanchine, Ivan Nagy, Martha Graham, and many other dancers took regular shiatsu sessions to relieve their pains and restore and maintain their vitality. It is well known that Liza Minnelli and Henry Kissinger have received shiatsu treatments to promote and maintain good health. Now you can take advantage of this marvelous treatment whenever you like with our massage chairs. Our shiatsu massage chairs electronically replicate the touch and pressure of a skilled shiatsu master. Find out how we can give you better health today.
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