Long working hours along with daily travelling can be extremely hectic. This Father’s Day treat your father with a relaxing massage.
Massages are considered to be one of the oldest healing arts used for variety of health-related purposes and reduction of stress. What better gift one can give to your dad, for his endless love and efforts with a relaxing massage.
Swedish Massage
It is a good option for a first-timer massage as it stimulates circulation, releases tight muscles, and relieves pain. During the process of Swedish massage, the skin is lubricated with massage oil and various massage strokes including effleurage, petrissage, friction, tapotement, nerve stroke and Swedish gymnastics are performed. This results in warming up of muscle tissue which releases the tension and breaks up muscle knots. This massage lasts for 50-90 minutes giving a relaxing experience.
Sports Massage
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This Massage is geared towards athletes and helps in the both prevention from injuries as well as recovery. It helps in reliving muscle pain, stiffness, strain, swelling, soreness, sprains, and muscle tensions. The techniques or movements used during this massage is effleurage, cupping, and percussive strokes. There are 3 forms of sports massage: Pre event- done for prevention, post event- done for recovery and maintenance- done for keeping a check on flow of blood and nutrients.
Deep Tissue Massage
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This massage involves applying firm pressure in slow strokes to reach deeper layers of muscles and connective tissues. It is often suggested as a remedy in the case of chronic pain in areas such as- neck, upper back, lower back, and shoulders and has various benefits including injury rehabilitation, improvement in postural problems, relief from pain in back and neck and easing of muscle tension. To obtain maximum relief techniques like stripping and friction are applied.
Trigger Point Massage
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The sensitive spots in soft tissue are known as trigger points and they serve as the main focus during this massage. These points are pressed and rubbed which results in feeling of relief. Dry needling is a popular trigger point massage method which includes stabbing of trigger points with acupuncture needles.
Hot Stone Massage
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This massage is considered to be deeply comforting and relaxing. It deals with usage of heated stones which are placed on a specific point by the therapist who then massages the skin with oil and uses gliding movements to move the stones along the muscles. Techniques such as long strokes, kneading and rolling are used. It helps with anxiety, depression, back pain, and insomnia.
