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Select a Massage Therapist in Rancho Cucamonga using the Yellow Pages?

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Using the Yellow Pages to find a Therapist is probably not the best way to go, the reason being you don’t really know what your getting. The best place to start is with family and friends. They, at least can tell you about the experience they had with Massage.  Many of my clients have known me for years. They could probably tell you more about me than I could. It kind of feels like family, like a friend

Another good place to look would be medical offices. Chiropractors, especially often retain Therapists who know a bit more than the average about the human body and how it works. At minimum, they at least know when a Massage is the wrong thing to do. My background, before I attended Massage School, was in Physical Therapy. I was interested in helping people with real health issues, Accidents, Injuries, and otherwise serious conditions.  I then was inclined to work in Chiropractic offices.

In the city of Rancho Cucamonga,  where I work, the Therapist must have a minimum of 500 hours training. We are also required to carry insurance.

Deep tissue Massage……how deep does the rabbit hole go?

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When selecting a Massage Therapist you will probably want to know about the different techniques available to you.  Well, this can be a problem, and perhaps not the best approach to take when making that choice.

For example, you might ask me if I do Deep Tissue , over the years I must have heard that question thousands of times. The term deep tissue is a general term. Several techniques used by any competent Therapist would fall under that heading.   “Muscle stripping” or “Muscle rolling” are some examples.

But the term deep tissue has little meaning. For one thing no two Massage clients tolerances are the same, what one client experiences as very light massage feels  like being crushed under a large boulder to another client. On top of that, no two Therapists are created equal, because of differences in training, skill levels, and the therapists  physical constitution.

Often, my experience has been, when a client asks if I can do deep tissue, they are really telling me that the last massage they received seemed superficial, and did not have any effect at all. For the massage to be effective the Therapist must find the optimal level of pressure the client needs to get the job done. No more or less pressure. To work on that level the Therapist needs to be skilled. You just cannot steam roll over a person that will just make the client tense to protect themselves. Deep tissue work requires a good deal of  trust to exist between you and your Therapist.

Some exotic types of Deep tissue Massage go further then to the bone! Take for example  CHI NEI TSANG, Chinese for Internal Organ Massage. This requires deep levels of relaxation to be achieved as the Therapist passes through  layer after layers of muscle and fascia to reach the organs to be massaged,  certainly that is deep tissue. Images of Aztec human sacrifices come to mind. Fortunately, there are other approaches to organ massage available to those who need it. Take for example Hatha Yoga,  works on the organs by moving the body around the internal structures thereby creating the space your organs need to function unimpaired. Locally, Sandy Jones is an excellent Yoga instructor.  She been teaching Hatha Yoga over 30 years.

htt://blueirisyoga.net/

Massage is not everything……Holistic Health

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Being a Massage Therapist one would expect me to recommend Massage   to everyone. In fact I almost always do. However, being healthy can not be accomplished by doing any one thing.  Holistic health is about the everything  you do that impacts your health. What you eat, drink, your sleep,  feelings, emotions, your choices, the situations one finds oneself in,  how one  interprets life’s stresses, all this impacts your health.  So remember there is no one magic pill. Actually the root  meaning of the word Member is part. We all know what it means when we say dismember- to cut something apart …………to Re-member means to bring all the parts together. When you remember you make yourself whole again.

Physical Benefits of Massage

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The benefits include:

  • Massage relaxes muscle contractions, spasms, and relieves general body tensions.
  • Massage dilates the blood vessels, thus improving the circulation.
  • Massage acts as a “mechanical cleanser” pushing along  lymphatic fluids and hastening the elimination of wastes and toxic debris.
  • Massage increases the blood supply and nutrition to muscles without adding to their load of toxic lactic acid, produced through voluntary muscle contraction. Massage thus helps to overcome harmful “fatigue” products resulting from strenuous exercise or injury.
  • Massage improves muscle tone and helps prevent or delay muscular atrophy resulting from forced inactivity
  • Massage can compensate, in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contraction in persons who because of injury, illness or age are forced to remain inactive. In these cases, massage helps return venous blood to the heart and so eases the strain on this vital organ.
  • Massage may sedate or stimulate  the nervous system depending on the type of massage administered.
  • Massage can prevent or remove adhesion’s in body tissues.
  • Massage  improves the general circulation and nutrition of tissues. It is accompanied or followed by an increased interchange of substances between the blood and tissue cells increasing tissue metabolism.
  • Massage increases the excretion of  fluids and nitrogen, inorganic phosphorous and salt in normal healthy individuals.
  • Massage helps the body retain needed minerals like nitrogen, phosphorous and sulphur, need for body repairs of tissues and bones. ( hip fractures).
  • Massage improves nutrition to the joints. This lessens inflammation and swelling in those joints, which in turn alleviates pain.
  • Massage reduces edema (swellings)  and in turn facilitates better movement.
  • Massage will improve flexibility in body and body limbs.
  • Massage instills a sense of well being.
  • Massage benefits are not limited to this list.