MASSAGE

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It is a set of manipulations or manual movements to achieve an improvement at all levels: joint, lymphatic, muscular, and circulatory. Massage helps to oxygenate the tissues, to intensify the blood supply to the skin, and to eliminate impurities.

Massage is the best way we have to eliminate and help the fatigue and stress of everyday life acts as a sedative, also develops in all the emotions of our body, as it establishes direct contact with the energy of the universe.

It is the oldest therapeutic tool of the human being, it is used to provide a natural remedy for pain. It calms the body and helps to relax, reduces stress, improves health by reducing the feeling of discomfort. It stimulates the body's systems, improves circulation and helps cell regeneration, and is a safe therapy because it is natural and non-invasive and does not endanger health.

As a healing art it dates back to more than 4500 years before Christ, we can only assume that in prehistoric times humans felt the instinct to touch, tap, and stroke when the body presented some ailment, to help its recovery.

History shows that the Orientals already used massages 3000 years before Christ, the Hindus used it around 1800 years before Christ, also the Romans and Greeks firmly believed in the benefits of massage and the Bible we find countless references to the laying on of hands as a method of healing the sick; currently, massage is the most popular method in Europe and North America for body treatments.

The word massage comes from the French "MASSAGE" and in turn, comes from the verb "MASSE" which is to knead, or from the Arabic "MASO" which means to touch or feel.

The benefits are many among which we have: helps sleep, improves circulation, eliminates dead cells, reduces fatigue and pain, improves the lymphatic system, improves the immune system, relaxes the nervous system, relaxes the mind and reduces anxiety, eliminates stress, improves body image and skin, increases energy, eliminates localized adiposity.

It is important to know the main general contraindications of massage to avoid damage and to be able to act safely and effectively: During the first 3 months of pregnancy, after that period with medical pre-registration and should avoid the pectoral areas, lumbar, belly, and chest, in cases of surgery should be six months or at least under medical pre-registration, can not be performed with infectious diseases of the skin, nor with inflammatory vascular diseases, such as phlebitis, inflammation of lymph nodes and circulatory retention, thrombosis, embolism, arterial embolism, varicose veins, and heart disease, acute skin diseases such as pain, heat, redness, inflammation, burning, itching, non-healing wounds, muscle sprains and tears, acute evolving diseases such as fever, flu, nausea, and ulcers, resent and surgical trauma, should not be performed in patients with cancer due to risk of cell dissemination unless the prior medical record is lowered. Diseases such as diabetes, asthma and respiratory diseases unless under medical prescription. Children under 12 years old under authorization and over 60 years old are special for massages etc.