Beauty Salons Treatments - An Introduction to Massage
Massage is the manual manipulation of surface layers of muscle and connective tissue to promote relaxation and normalize them. Massage therapists use mainly their hands and fingers to issue the massage treatment, but the forearms, elbows, knees or feet can also be used to give different types of massage by manipulating the muscles with different pressures and movements. Massage is mainly used to speed healing and to give a feeling of relaxation and well-being and can boost circulatory and immune systems, benefiting blood pressure, circulation, muscle tone, digestion, and skin tone, relieve pain and reduce anxiety and depression. When muscles are overworked and tired, massage can also by used to relieve the soreness, stiffness and pain. A massage will usually be given by a therapist with the client either lying on a specialist massage table, with a horse shoe shape head support to allow easy breathing and comfortable position, or sitting in a specialist massage chair. The client...