(ARA) – Your shoulders are tight, your head throbs, your heart pounds and you don’t recall the last night you slept peacefully. Whether it’s because your 401(k) statement just arrived or you’re dreading the up-coming holiday shopping season, you – like millions of other Americans these days – are probably feeling economy-induced stress.
Whatever its source, [...]

(ARA) – The recession is turning out to be a great equalizer, rearranging our priorities so that recent college graduates and seasoned professionals now share a single top concern — job security. Many of them will likely find what they’re looking for in the health care industry, where overall employment is expected to rise 21 [...]

(ARA) – With high unemployment rates and a wide-spread recession, you might think jobs in a “luxury” industry would be in short supply. Yet many day spas have actually seen an increase in demand, and need qualified massage therapists, yoga instructors and other professionals to keep pace with business.
Penny-pinching Americans may not be willing to [...]

As Americans get into the full swing of the holiday season, massage therapy can be a winning addition to holiday planning and shopping lists. Massage therapy gift certificates are surefire holiday gifts; consumers love giving and receiving gift cards and certificates and first-time massage clients rate their massage experience as highly positive, according to consumer [...]

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 [...]