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Massage Body Mechanics: Therapist Injury Prevention and Recovery

Massage therapy is a profession that requires proper self-care and body mechanics in order to prevent musculoskeletal injury from overuse. Recovery from overuse injuries requires time and patience, but with the proper care and reassessment of technique and body mechanics, full recovery is often possible. Overuse injuries often sneak up subtly over time. The damage begins long before you experience any symptoms, so even if you feel strong and healthy now, your body mechanics may cause pain and discomfort down the road.

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8 Tips for Buying a Portable Massage Table

If you're thinking about purchasing a portable massage table for your business or home use, it helps to have a general idea of what you want before shopping around. These tips for buying a portable massage table will give you a better idea of which features you should consider. - Find the right comfort level. A combination of foam thickness and density will affect the comfort level of your massage table. High density and multi-density foam (which includes layers of high and medium densities) will retain their shape much better than low or medium density foam.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Buy a Massage Table for Home Use

With a massage table at home, you can easily indulge in the luxury and healing power of therapeutic touch on a regular basis. Check out the benefits of owning your own massage table below. - Enjoy giving and receiving massage in the comfort of your own home. With a massage table at home, you can enjoy the luxury of therapeutic touch on a regular basis with your spouse or partner. You can learn simple massage techniques and more advanced methods from local classes in your community or learn-at-home courses.

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Affordable Massage at Home: Improve Your Quality of Life with Couples and Electronic Massage

Massage at home is an affordable way to reap the benefits of massage in the comfort of your own home. Whether you and your partner practice massaging each other or you use an electronic massager, including home massage as a regular part of your life will relieve stress and tension and allow you to relax at home. Scientific research continues to support the benefits of massage therapy, not only for the body, but also for the mind, emotions, and spirit. Mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health are all interrelated.

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Corporate Chair Massage

Extending your services into corporate chair massage is an excellent career move for massage therapists. You can naturally market your massage services and open yourself up to a wider client base through corporate massage. Massage in the workplace allows you to reach individuals who may never have considered booking a massage therapy session before. Their reasons for neglecting the power of massage may differ, but they generally boil down to two reasons: time and money. Many of your corporate clients fall into the overworked or overstressed category.

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Marketing Your Massage Business at Events

Why should you market your massage business at events? The power of marketing your massage business at events like athletic meets, conventions, and trade shows is that you bring your services to potential clients instead of waiting for new clients to come to you. Traditional marketing and advertising venues, such as newspaper ads and fliers, tend to be more passive. You submit your ad or post your fliers and wait for the phone calls and clients to start pouring in. Event massage marketing takes an active approach, allowing you to interact with potential clients face to face.

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Building a Solid Massage Therapy Business

Venturing out on your own with a new massage business, or hoping to breathe new life into your established massage business? Whether you have a faithful client base or are still waiting for your first client, these tips will help you form a solid massage marketing plan for your business. Of all the massage marketing ideas you may hear about, word of mouth is by far a massage therapist's strongest asset.

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Spa at Home: Tips for Hosting the Ultimate Home Spa Party

What better way to unwind and relax than to plan a girls night with a home spa party! Depending on your budget and preparation time, you can choose to hire a spa professional or mobile massage therapist to provide treatment services, or you can plan your own party, complete with bath and body products and do-it-yourself home spa treatments. Hiring a professional saves you a lot of hassle and allows you and your guests to indulge in the ultimate spa and massage experience.

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Do Inversion Therapy Tables Relieve Back Pain?

If you suffer from chronic back pain, you're not alone. Millions of adults in the U.S. suffer from it every day. The search for a natural form of relief has led many of these sufferers to turn to gravity inversion therapy for help. This popular treatment involves the reversal of gravitational force on the spine to increase the space between the spinal discs.

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Chi Machine FAQs

Learn more about using your chi machine with these frequently asked questions! How often should I use my chi machine? Daily use will provide the most benefit. The easiest way to remember to use your chi machine each day is to establish a routine. For example, use it right before your bed or shortly after you get up. Setting aside a time and place to use your chi exerciser will help you be consistent. How fast can I increase my chi exercise time? Your first session should be no longer than 5 minutes.

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Benefits of Chi Swing Exercise

Getting enough oxygen is vital to the health of your body. Aerobic exercise can help to increase the oxygen levels in your body, thereby improving your overall health. Although the thought of aerobic exercise may conjure up images of running, biking, and swimming, a workout does not have to be strenuous in order to benefit the body and increase your oxygen intake. One popular form of passive aerobic exercise is the chi machine. The swinging motion of the chi massager boosts oxygen intake while allowing the body to relax.

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Mobile Massage Business Tips: Take the Stress Out of Outcalls

Imagine this: You're digging through your outcall massage bag for your oil holster and, with a sinking feeling, you realize that you left it at home. Your only options are to set the oil on the floor or on a side table across the room, both of which force you to break the flow of the massage to apply more lubricant. An unexpected stressor is introduced into the session, and your normally peaceful state of mind becomes flustered. Your stress then transfers to the client, who tenses up in response to your subtle irritation. Here's another stressful scenario.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your In-Home Massage

In-home massage therapy is convenient. You feel safe and comfortable in your own space, and it saves you the time it takes to travel to the therapist's office and back. The downside is that there can be a lot of distractions at home that fight for your attention and keep you from fully relaxing. In order to get the most benefit from a massage in your home, you need to prepare yourself beforehand and eliminate as many distractions as possible.

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