Integrative Health Care Blog
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Massage therapy for older adults helps improve balance
Massage therapy for older adults is a promising way to help them retain health and independence. Older adults who received an hour-long massage once a week for six weeks showed significant improvements in balance, neurological and cardiovascular measures. In the...
What is cupping therapy?
Cupping therapy is a form of deep massage, affecting the body up to four inches into the tissues. Using heat or suction, cupping massage creates a partial vacuum that helps tissues release toxins, activate and clear blood vessels and promote local healing. This is...
Massage for Fibromyalgia brings relief
Fibromyalgia is a frustrating syndrome. People with fibromyalgia suffer from generalized pain, rigid joints and at times overwhelming fatigue. Performing basic activities becomes difficult. Trigger points, or areas of intense tenderness, make matters worse, both...
What is Ashiatsu?
Have you ever seen photographs or video footage of a therapist walking on a client’s back, using overhead bars and straps as support? That is Ashiatsu, a powerful and effective form of massage therapy that is one of our offerings here at Ha.Le' Mind and Body. In...
Massage for PTSD creates space for healing
PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is commonly associated with soldiers and other people in war-torn areas but it doesn’t take a war to manifest. Massage for PTSD is a powerful treatment form. Any sort of prolonged chronic stress, from the loss of a loved one to...