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Massage
Massage is a system of gentle, calming, flowing intuitive massaging developed in the West from the rigorous standardised massage first described by Per Hendrick Ling in the 18th century. Eastern styles of Massage have evolved over many centuries.
There are a number of types of massage including:-
Swedish Massage. This is the most common type of massage. It is ideally performed with the patient unclothed on a specially designed couch with the practitioner generally treating the whole body using a variety of strokes from gentle stroking to deep pressure and treating of muscles.
Deep Tissue Massage. This is designed to help overcome and heal injuries to any muscles wherever they occur.
Sports Massage. This keeps the body flexible and prevents muscle injury or helps it to heal after injury.
Chair Massage. The upper body is massaged while the client is sitting in a special chair fully clothed.
Indian Head Massage. This is a massage therapy concentrating on the shoulders, neck and head. The practitioner works around the head from the shoulders and massages the whole head including face, ears and pressure points using varying degrees of pressure from facial stroking to deep scalp kneading.
Thai Massage. This is massage in a distinctive thai style that involves stretching and deep massage.
Life and Health Problems Helped
The life and health problems shown below have been noted as being helped by Massage:-
Massage Practitioner List
As the relationship between practitioner and the person consulted by them is a very personal one we would recommend that you check out their qualifications and, if possible, decide whether you have suitable empathy with them. This listing does not imply any special competence.
Practitioner lists for Massage:-
| Australia | Canada | Great Britain |
| India | Ireland | New Zealand |
| The United States of America |
How to Help your Practitioner
You will have certain questions that you want to ask your practitioner about the therapy or natural cure and your practitioner will have standard questions to ask you about yourself.
The "How to Help Your Practitioner" page for Massage
Massage Blog
Add your contributions to the blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to this therapy or "natural cures" that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Massage Practitioner Organisations
The qualifications and requirements for a practitioner to be registered may vary markedly from organisation to organisation. We would strongly recommend that you visit the organisation's website to ensure that your chosen practitioner is registered with an organisation which has requirements with which you approve.
The home country of the organisation is listed. Although their practitioner lists are likely to be limited to their own countries most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| IAIM Australia | Australia | National |
| Canadian Massage Therapist Alliance | Canada | National |
| International Association of Infant Massage- Canada Chapter | Canada | National |
| International Association of Infant Massage UK Chapter | Great Britain | National |
| Baby Massage Ireland | Ireland | National |
| IAIM - NZ | New Zealand | National |
| Massage New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Thai Yoga Massage Association of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| American Massage Therapy Association | United States of America | National |
| Infant Massage USA | United States of America | National |
Massage Practitioner Schools
Various schools and colleges will train people to be practitioners of Massage. Although their courses may be limited to their own countries some may provide international distance learning. Please check them out carefully to ensure they meet your requirements
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional organisations.
Lists of Practitioners and Practices
Please access the list of practitioners listed by therapy from the Therapies Home page
The practitioners and practitioners' organisations lists for the following countries.
| Australia | Canada | Great Britain |
| India | Ireland | New Zealand |
| United States of America |
The full searchable practice list for the following countries.
| Australia | Canada | Great Britain |
| India | Ireland | New Zealand |
| United States of America |
Shopping Zone
There are lots of good things related to Massage in the stores accessed below. Please have a look.
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
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