The Perfect End to Warm Weather Work is a Relaxing Massage
(ARA) - With warm weather drawing more Americans out of their easy chairs and into the sunshine, there’s no reason to let stress or muscle stiffness get in the way of feeling your best. Whether participating in weddings, hiking, playing sports or getting earthy in [...]

When the warm weekends of summer lure gardeners into the yard and the armchair athletes into the field, these “warriors” often find that their muscles and joints are a more than a little sore on Monday. For some of these “weekend warriors,” the antidote for aching muscles is a soothing massage, making this time of [...]

The human body is an amazingly complex system, and the massage therapist has to know it well.
The human body has over 650 muscles, more than 200 bones and uncounted connective tissue, tendons, ligaments and more tying them all together. Though the therapist doesn’t have to memorize every single one, he or she has to be [...]

Whether trigger points even exist is still a matter of some controversy. Proponents on both sides will argue and reach no definite conclusion. To explore working them, will require a slight detour into some simple muscle physiology.
Muscles work when a set of protein molecules composing them ‘overlap’ by being electro-chemically stimulated. These long chains slide [...]