Pregnancy Massage with Hot & Cold Stones

An innovative new treatment is about to nourish the newly pregnant woman in the UK. For the fist time, there is a credible hot and cold stone Pregnancy and Post Labour treatment available.

Pregnancy massage has been around for a while now, but the difference with this treatment is that it uses temperature and stones to help alleviate those all too ghastly symptoms. There is a list as long as your arm as to why a therapist needs to approach their client with the upmost caution, however the main areas of concern are associated with DVT and overheating due to hormonal changes and increase in blood supply.

Usually most women will suffer some kind of condition during Pregnancy. The most common case is back pain, sacroiliac pain, piriformis syndrome or other musculoskeletal pain. Hormones also relax ligaments and can lead to possible joint misalignment. Other discomforts during Pregnancy are Oedema and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Now, being massaged with hot and cold stones, Women can get amazing benefits from the temperature being supplied by the stones. For example, heat immediately relaxes and relieves muscle spasm, carpal and myofascial pain and relieves stress from the weight-baring joints; whilst cold relieves pain, reduces water retention, stimulating the lymph function and reduces inflammation around the joints.

To give you a typical treatment example, let's take one of the most common conditions, Piriformis Syndrome. This is a compression syndrome of the Sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body. The Sciatic nerve passes through the greater Sciatic Foramen, usually passing deep and inferior to the Piriformis muscle. This muscle is deep in the buttocks and is small but it provides a lot of work for the Pelvis and becomes very sore and tender during pregnancy. In a typical stone treatment, the woman lies in side line, and the therapist will work on the thigh and sacral area, with alternating hot and cold stones with a particular technique which releases the muscles around the pelvic and gives the Sciatic nerve and blood vessels space to recover. The massage is not deep and is not long, therefore the client will not fatigue.

JSS will only teach professional, qualified stone therapists. Research has been on-going now for the past seven years and countless women have experienced this treatment to provide JSS with the knowledge required to present it as one of their leading treatments.

All therapists wanting to learn this treatment will be taught how to provide emotional support to a mother through the full term of pregnancy, learning what exactly happens during this period, how to take blood pressure; cover high risk pregnancy & contra-indications, hormonal changes, relevant anatomy & pathology, advanced stone massage techniques and post-labour recovery plus much more.

By Debbie Thomas Teacher in Stone TherapyAll rights reserved. Any reproducing of this article must have the author name and all the links intact.

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What is Face Lift Massage?

Many of us long to make the most of our natural assets. There are occasions when we actively strive to look good. Yet in everyone's life there comes a time when we recognise that youth is not ours forever. This is when a visit to a facial rejuvenation therapist qualified in Natural Face Lift Massage can be timely and beneficial.

A precise healthcare modality, Natural Face Lift Massage successfully combines ancient theory with a practical, modern approach to looking and feeling your best --- whatever your age. As we learn to nurture and balance our inner and outer lives, the changes we make are reflected in our features. With the deceptively simple massage and energy balancing techniques of the Natural Face Lift Massage, you can discover a new and exciting way to take care of the assets you possess.

This totally natural, non-invasive treatment can help reverse some of the adverse effects that have already occurred to your skin. As your face is soothed into calmness, your features can visibly relax. The result?? You feel beautifully at peace with the world.

Treatments and training courses don't only occur in some of the world's biggest cities. You can also find them as far afield as Derby and Devon, Cardiff and California, the Niagara Falls and North London to train groups in this wonderful method of facial rejuvenation.

While?fifteen minutes can seem pleasurably long when you're in the skilled and caring hands of a Natural Face Lift Massage professional, the normal length of a session is one hour. After sixty minutes of being cared for and healed by your Natural Face Lift Massage therapist, a renewed sense of tranquillity is often reflected in your features as you look at yourself in the mirror. Expression lines can be eased and your complexion can look fresher and more toned than it has for years. Not only this --- compliments from others confirm that what you're experiencing is not a figment of your imagination but tangible proof that you're feeling more relaxed and vibrant than you have for a long time.

It's important to remember this wonderful massage is not a 'quick fix.' The effects are cumulative.? When a client decides to have regular treatments, it's a commitment to looking and feeling one's best and to patiently watching the benefits intensify. A course of treatments can be anything from five to ten weekly sessions but there are no hard and fast rules and each person is individually assessed, taking into account factors such as skin condition, overall health and lifestyle before a treatment plan is drawn up. As with all responsible healthcare modalities, there are contraindications or reasons why?for some people the massage may not appropriate, though it's fair to say that most people can readily enjoy the risk-free benefits of facial rejuvenation. Once the intensive part of the treatment process is over, clients can come once a month or every six weeks to maintain the benefits. Again, this is a matter for discussion between the client and the therapist. It's definitely not a high maintenance system and that fact pleases people who lead busy lives and are careful about how they spend their money.

You will work with the therapist and the therapist works with you. How does it work exactly? Your therapist may point out some of the changes your body can undergo while you're lying still and becoming more and more deeply relaxed. You are welcome to ask for the 'before and after' test during your first treatment. The results could convince you that the Natural Face Lift Massage is a serious alternative to other forms of cosmetic surgery. If you're serious about looking your best, you may welcome the suggestions your therapist may make about increased water intake or trying out some simple, timesaving face exercises at home. When you combine the massage with some lifestyle choices and a simple exercise routine, you'll likely to be well on the way to keeping your looks while maintaining your health in optimum condition.

The Natural Face Lift Massage can relieve tension in areas you had no idea were tense. During a treatment, over ninety face and neck muscles are systematically massaged while acupressure points are activated. The massage helps free constrictions in the connective tissues and aids restoration of microcirculation. After just one treatment, your skin can glide more smoothly over the deeper layers of facial muscle and bone. Your face can feel and look more alive and rested. Given the optimum conditions to restore a sense of balance, the body's innate healing energy can work unhindered. Circular moves, unusual smoothing techniques, delicate and precise procedures that leave the facial skin plumped up are applied to every part of the face. Your skin feels alive, rejuvenated and somehow smoother. This begs the question: is beauty more than skin deep? It seems that one answer to feeling beautifully comfortable in your skin, no matter how old or young you are, lies in the capable hands of a facial rejuvenation therapist trained in Natural Face Lift Massage.

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