Category: Types of Massage Therapy
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Craniosacral therapy
Cranio-sacral Therapy– A technique developed by many (Upledger, Milne, Sutherland) that claims to correct cerebral and spinal imbalances or blockages. Their theories claim that treatment is geared toward moving the soft tissue, correcting cerebral and spinal imbalances to improve the functioning of the central nervous system. This system consists of working with the soft tissues,…
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Full Body Massage
The words full body massage are often used by people when asking for a massage. In some cases what people are really asking for is a “happy ending” so when you use that term asking about massage, you might get more questions to determine exactly what you mean by that. Full body massage is massage…
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Asian Massage Therapy
Asian Massage Therapy techniques are a legitimate type of massage therapy that is unfortunately often confused with ‘those other types of massage parlors that give happy endings’ or in other words Brothels Doing Business as Massage Parlors/Massage therapists aka Asian Massage Parlors. This needs to stop…but how…we don’t really have an answer or way. Stop…
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Manual Lymph Drainage
Manual Lymph Drainage also referred to as Lymphatic Drainage is a type of hands on therapy that focuses on managing the flow of lymphatic fluid in the body. It was developed by Dr. Emil Vodder and his wife, Estrid) in 1936 in Paris for treatment of swollen lymph nodes. It is a light stretching of…
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Types of massage therapy
There are many many types of massage therapy, each with their own unique history. My list includes about 100 types but I will be revising and adding more to that. ABMP’s list of various types of massage includes 350.Many come from the same lines in history. Massage Magazine has a list of 350 but not…