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Massage is like working out! It is deeply healthy for you!

Monday, March 17th, 2008 | Deep Tissue, Featured, Massage, healthly living, injury treatment, stress | No Comments

I often find my clients having a hard time carving time out of their busy schedule for massage.

I know for me, that over the past 7 years of massage practice, it can still be a challenge to carve time in my own schedule. The rational and “workaholic” section of my brain argues that “Surely we could be doing something more productive! This is just pampering!”

Yes, even my mind is kinda narrow minded about the subject. But of course, by now, I ignore the voices in my head that argue against something that is good for me.

The truth is, massage is one of the most special and unique ways to do something really healthy for yourself. When you put yourself in someone else’s hands, there’s a deep letting go of responsibility and stress. Most of us really need to get our stress down anyway. Massage gives you one of the few passive ways to achieve this goal.

Massage is really healing! Especially if you come to me - a deep tissue or injury treatment specialist - you have a chance to permanently alter your body for the better so that the activities of your life do not cause the pain and aches they have in the past. Scar tissue and adhesions get reduced and you leave the massage table feeling more open, free and relaxed in your body.

Massage can feel so good that I think people often think of it only as a luxury. YES! It feels Great! But that is not where the benefits stop. The combination of feeling like your pampering yourself as well as really taking care of the miracle that is your amazing body gives you such an empowered feeling that life doesn’t seem so hard.

Your work becomes easier. Your body moves freely. Your mind is more open to possibilities, kindness to yourself and others and creating more of a life that you love instead of one that is the constant “go-go-go” that breaks your body, mind and heart down.

Do yourself a favor and see massage as healing. See massage as a necessary part of your health and healing regiment. All the other ways to heal yourself can seem like chores: eating veggies, working out and taking vitamins, but massage is the healing thing you do for yourself that makes you feel good - and it’s so much easier to be happy doing it than eating veggies.

Carve out the time! Get a massage. It feels good and it’s deeply good for your body, mind and heart!

Thoracic outlet syndrome - often confused with Carpal Tunnel syndrome

Friday, March 14th, 2008 | Deep Tissue, Featured, Massage, Myofascial Release, healthly living, injury treatment | No Comments

symptoms:
1. hands go numb in the pinky, ring and half of middle fingers
2. “fat” or full tight feeling in the forearm
3. in severe cases - whole arm is swollen and numb and some poor fucker needs to visit the ER

often confused with:
Carpal tunnel syndrome - the symptoms of which are primarily in the hand proper and numbness usually in the thumb, index middle finger and palm.

THe difference between these two sydromes is this:
carpal tunnel syndrome is IN the carpel tunnel - ie - too much scar tissue in the space just proximal to the *wrist* - often due to too much masturbation, video game playing and computer/mouse use

Thoracic outlet syndrome is the impingement of the ulnar nerve at the *shoulder area*, clavical or (sometimes but not often) the neck muscles where the brachial plexus comes out or at misalignment at the cervical vertebral bones.

Often Doctors are stupid.

They operate in the wrist for something that’s all fucked up in the shoulder.

Regardless of which disorder you may have - don’t trust your doctor unless your doctor tells you to get massage therapy treatment for either one. They are both better treated with massage than surgery.

Funny thing I’ve found…
People often have a bit of both and mostly… people have the shoulder issues and symptoms in the hands.

Key areas to massage in the case of Thoracic outlet: rotator cuff, arm, neck and chest
Best stretch: door stretch (a chest opening stretch)

Seattle art Walk

Friday, February 8th, 2008 | Business Insights, Featured, Seattle Events, blogging, sierra's a bad-ass | No Comments

I think the best thing about the whole shin-dig has got to be that crazy building just west of first avenue.

Wine. People. and story after story of out-there artists just doing the things that they do.

and then they open it to the public

godblessem!

lots of wine too!

*hyickup*

I went home early… 11pm!

to get to my new kitten. Gotta be responsible for this litte furry life that lives in my home now.

google the artwalk in seattle then go.

get cheep wine

post really bad posts on your blog when your done.

horrah!

Stress in the World, The 4:00 mystery

Friday, February 1st, 2008 | Business Insights, Kink Friendly, Massage, Seattle Events, healthly living, injury treatment, spirituality, stress | No Comments

I snapped awake this morning at 4am and had a hard time getting back to sleep again.

Later, I talked to one of my closer biznik friends, Will Wright - a Kink-friendly Lawyer in Seattle, and he told me that four o’clock is a time that is known for it’s relationship to stress. Apparently, there’s some documentation and many cases where 4am is the time at which that many people afflicted with stress, would waking up. 4 am would be when they got up, regardless of how much sleep they have had or when they’d gone to bed. › Continue reading

Recovery from injury - insurance vs. cash

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 | Deep Tissue, Featured, Massage, Myofascial Release, healthly living, injury treatment, stress | 3 Comments

I worked in clinics with other massage therapists on staff as well as chiropractors. I have treated the injuries of hundreds of people in the last 7 years and I have seen some interesting things.

The one things I wanted to point out in this little post was this: I have found that it takes longer for my patient to heal when they are getting their massages paid for by insurance.

Since I have had my cash-business for the last 3 years, I have found that the recovery rate for my patients is amazingly short compared to my experience in insurance clinical work. › Continue reading

Thing you should know about Healers…

Friday, November 9th, 2007 | Business Insights, Featured, Massage, blogging, healthly living, stress | No Comments

I know that it’s sort of dangerous to make generalizations but I would really like to be heard out on this one. And the other thing… I love to be challenged to “think bigger” to bust beyond the limiting beliefs I have. Hear me out on this one… › Continue reading