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Hot stone therapy is an exciting massage treatment sweeping the country. Hot stone massage is a specialty massage that uses smooth, heated stones. Each set of basalt stones is handpicked from our sources in Mexico, Chile & Peru, power cleaned, and then sorted based on size and weight. They are often basalt, a black volcanic rock that absorbs and retains heat well. Stone massage therapy has been used in many different cultures for many years. Healers used rocks from the river beds and warmed them either in hot coals or hot water. Thermal conduction in the warm stones brings about local and systemic changes in the body, and influences the energy centers for body and mind balancing. There are so many benefits of the hot stones and they are promotes deep muscle and tissue relaxation, relieves pain and calms the psyche.
This 2 hour treatment will take you into a deep sense of relaxation. Allow all of your tension to melt away as the volcanic stones are massaged over your body. As one of the largest suppliers of natural stone products in the world, we are committed to providing only the highest quality massage stone kits. Stones are adaptable to a myriad of uses. Reflexologists, aromatherapists, aestheticians, occupational and physical therapists, chiropractors, Oriental body workers, light, sound and vibrational therapists, Reiki and polarity practitioners, sports and medical massage therapists, now use stones. Hot Stone Massages are surprisingly kind to the body and gentle compared with deep tissue massage, although they share the same benefits.
Advantages of Hot Stone Therapy
The therapist might also leave heated stones in specific points along your spine, or in the palms of your hand, or even between your toes to improve the flow of energy in your body.
Hot Stone therapy can help in the treatment of for following problems; muscular aches, strains, Multiple Sclerosis, rheumatic and arthritic conditions, back pain, and insomnia. It also helps to improve circulation and can help reduce stress, anxiety, tension and depression.
The use of massage techniques in conjunction with the stones helps produce energy that assists with and directs vital flow to areas of blockage.
Hot stone therapy goes beyond the physical experience of typical massage and enters deeper dimensions of relaxation, health and well-being.
Stone massages may be more suitable for those individuals that prefer a lighter massage, but need deep manipulation of the muscles.
Stone massage is a unique connection we experience with nature, offering a sense of profoundness and sacredness that we too often forget.
The theory is that the heat from the stones helps to increase your hearty rate and helps to regulated blood flow. It also helps to rid the muscles of toxic waste products, which build up from stress and bad lifestyle habits.
Heated Chakra stones align and balance chief energy centers, sending their healing properties deep to the client's core.
Water-treated stones are placed at specific sites on the client's body to promote relaxation and to help open up the merdians (energy pathways).
This will provides relaxation, decongestion and detoxification.
Would you wish to know of a treatment which will allow you to ensure that your body is optimally mobile throughout your lifetime? Welcome to the world of Physical therapy or better known as Physiotherapy, a service which possibly preserves your age lifelong, literally speaking. Physical Therapy advocates optimal functional mobility of the body as an indicator for a person to be healthy. For one to know what a physical therapy massage is, the different types of Physical Therapy or physiotherapy must be briefly understood.
What are the different types of Physical Therapy ?
Physical Therapy is further categorized in major types of therapies based on the organs/parts of body which benefit from the treatment. The different types of Physiotherapy treatments are as follows:
&bullMusculoskeletal Physical Therapy - This treatment is primarily used for treatment of pain in the joints, tissues etc. A variety of treatments like exercises, manual therapies and treatment using electro-physical agents like cryotherapy, heat therapy and many more are used to treat pain in the parts of the body as discussed before. It is important that a Physical Therapy will be highly ineffective if the problem is not diagnosed properly.
&bullCardiopulmonary Physical Therapy - Many doctors treat complex internal issues like asthma, bronchitis and acute respiratory conditions. Since most of the ailments affect organs like the chest, throat, cysts, any physical modality used in treating these ailments will be highly ineffective in treating these ailments.
&bullNeurological Physical Therapy - Possibly, one of the complex forms of Physical Therapy. Neurological Physical Therapy, if done properly ensures that the motor functions and the nerve cells work properly. This is ensured by the fact that Neurological Physical Therapy reduces the motor defects which impair the working of the nerve cells.
How is Physical Therapy Massage connected to different forms of Physical Therapy?
&bullPhysical Relief - When a massage is done properly, externally on a human body, it ensures that pain is reduced on different parts of the body. Massage like soft tissue massage will help relieve a soft tissue injury that a person sustained.
&bullMental Relief - Most massages are provided to people intending that the customers gain mental benefit from the massage. How many times have we gone to a Salon with the need of cutting our hair and end up getting massaged by the 'hair-cutter'? The medical reason behind this thought process is the fact that when done properly, the massage relieves a person of a lot of tension. It easies the muscles and nerves in a human body, thus ensuring that the circulatory system is in proper working shape.
The critical aspect of physical therapy massage is that it should never be done on a human body stand-alone and must be based on sound medical diagnosis of the ailment. For example, if a person is suffering from a pain in his wrists, it should be diagnosed properly with the help of X Ray and other Pathology reports and the physical therapy massage must be recommended by the doctor. Not doing this may result in serious consequences for the person who wishes to have the massage done on him.