Massage LA Health Updates

This blog post is for all of you who suffer from asthma. This disease is brutal but thankfully new medicines and treatment techniques emerge to improve the asthmatic’s quality of life. Consider a 100% natural treatment to address your asthma. Consider Reflexology Massage or Zone Therapy as a means to[...]
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Scientists may not know what causes trigger points or even exactly what they are, but one thing everyone can agree on is that trigger points hurt, and the solution is often trigger point massage.[...]
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Expectant mothers can take proactive measures to positively effect changes in their body during pregnancy. Hormonal, physical, and mental challenges related to pregnancy can seriously and negatively affect mood and stress. A safe way to relieve anxiety and tense muscles is via Prenatal Massage. Carrying a child shifts the mom-to-be’s[...]
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I was so excited to get to talk with comedienne Paula Poundstone on her podcast about the benefits of deep tissue and neuromuscular massage and bodywork. Paula is extraordinarily funny, and although we laughed our way through the interview, she was able to articulate a lot of fears that keep[...]
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Did you know massage therapy is rapidly rising as an alternative to surgery for numerous painful ailments to include severe muscle pain? Painful muscle “trigger points” are activated when a muscle is overused or traumatized. The resulting inflammation from muscle overuse or trauma causes pain within the affected muscle. Trigger[...]
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Deep muscle tissue can become stiff and painful when you move your body incorrectly, when it is repeatedly stretched, has trigger points, or used repetitively in exercise or sports. Essentially, when this happens stiffness and trigger points can restrict range of motion because of the pain that results when you[...]
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One of the more common coincidences in modern medicine: people who sit a lot have low back pain. The number of biomechanical reasons for this are several,[...]
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One of the most common complaints in America today is the 'tension headache,' a pain at the base of the skull that will often be accompanied by pain running up behind the ear, pain at or just in front of the temple, or more rarely in the ridge above one[...]
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When Amazon announces that they're developing a new tablet specifically geared toward gamers, you know tablets have become genuinely mainstream -- but they're not without their issues.[...]
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The levator scapulae muscle is the most common cause of “stiff neck” complaints, with limited and painful movement. In a clinical case study of active trigger points, the levator scapulae muscle was the most commonly involved neck/shoulder girdle muscle. In another study of 200 normal young adults,[...]
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