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Tips, Techniques, and Strategies for Boosting Your Metabolism.
How to Speed up Your Metabolism?
Chances are, you’ve tried to boost your metabolism at least once in your life. Perhaps you weren’t quite certain what a metabolism was, or didn’t know how to accomplish your goals.
Maybe you started a rigorous exercise program of jogging and muscle toning. Or [...]
Research as shown, in Traditional Chinese Medicine dating back to 2600BC, magnetic stones were used to correct imbalance in certain parts of the body. This can help with all types of arthritis, as they all involve some kind of inflammation. The magnetic treatments help the disease by reducing the inflammation.
While Magnetic therapy is not a [...]
Acupuncture for Arthritis
If you get arthritis pain in your neck and shoulder area, you may be surprised to know, acupuncture is used to treat many things, including Arthritis pain, backaches, neck pain, bad habits such as smoking, menopausal pain, migraines and more.
Acupuncture for Arthritis – Research
Research has shown, acupuncture can help relieve pain in the [...]
Homeopathy Dandruff – Research Information
According to one of the UK’s leading medically qualified homoeopaths, Dr Andrew Lockie, there are quite a few homoeopathic treatments that can be very effective for combating dandruff.
According to Dr Lockie, you should try using sulphur if you find yourself persistently scratching your head at night or if your scalp burns [...]
Unlike the other 4 types of popular massage, Shiatsu looks to the East for its origins and traditions. Shiatsu is Japanese. It is often called a form of Chinese Acupressure. Its name, in fact, means “finger Pressure.” While considering some aspects of modern Asian medicine, it is principally traditional in its approach to human physiology. [...]
Swedish Massage or Classic Massage is the oldest of the western traditions. It dates back to the early attempts by Per Henrik Ling (1176-1839) to introduce a method of massage into sports education. In doing so, he integrated a number of different existent Eastern healing techniques into a Western system of anatomy, physiology and blood [...]
Sports Massage is also a variation of Swedish Massage. It includes some aspects of Trigger Point Therapy. Sports Massage is a method of treating athletes. It is usually injury or athlete specific in its application. Sports Massage emerged as a means to address the needs of athletes. This includes equine athletes.
The techniques of Sports Massage [...]
Deep Tissue Massage Therapy is a direct descendent of Swedish Massage. In some instances, Deep Tissue Massage is a technique and not a specific type of therapy. In fact, it is utilized in various different kinds of massage therapy. In Deep Tissue Massage, a practitioner can utilize a number of techniques to free the body [...]
Trigger Point Massage is the creation of Janet Travell M.D. (1901-1997). A former White House physician, she explored and, with David Simons, is responsible for the Bible on this variation of massage therapy. Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual came out in 1983. It contains the basic techniques, purpose and philosophy behind Trigger [...]
Eastern versus Western; Traditional versus Modern Eclectic
Massage therapy initially separates into two basic types: Eastern and Western. The latter form is also referred to as Chinese, Japanese or Asian. While the two formats have commonalities, there are also differences. This is not simply a question of origin. It is a matter of philosophy. Western Massage [...]