Massage Therapy Blog

The early discovery of HIV and AIDs in the 1980s led to misconceptions and untruths about how the disease was transmitted, leaving a population of people feeling alone and shunned. There were many assumptions that HIV and AIDs could be contracted just by breathing the...

You’ve been looking forward to that massage session all week, and then you wake up with a pounding head, aches and pains all over, and your nose just won’t stop running. It’s no fun to be sick! But assuming you’re up to crawling out of bed, do you have to cancel the...

The use of essential oils has been on the rise lately, as more people discover the natural benefits that essential oils can have on our mental, physical, and emotional well-being. Their popularity is due to the many uses and preventative applications like reducing...

Massage therapy isn’t just for stress relief or relaxation. Once considered an indulgence, many now find massage to be an effective pain and health management treatment for a variety of ailments like neck and back pain, heart and circulatory conditions, anxiety and...

If you haven’t experienced it, you may have seen images of massage people lying face down with basalt lava rocks on their backs and thought, what is that? It’s called hot stone massage and it is an additional technique massage therapists use to aid in relaxation,...

Head and scalp acupressure points are helpful for a range of conditions from headaches and dizziness to excessive thinking and insomnia. And now a study published in the May 2016 issue of Massage magazine by Ya-Ting Lee from the National Taichung University of Science...