subject: Chinese Massage – what is Chinese massage? [print this page] Everyone is familiar with the word "massage"Everyone is familiar with the word "massage". This is the activation of muscles and connective tissues to promote relaxation, relief and strength to the body parts. During a massage a person lie down comfortably on a straight surface and relaxes himself. Massage areas are unclothed but in Chinese massage there is no need to unclothe you.
Chinese massage is a type of massage that is done to treat the body from different ailments and disorders. This is done by stimulating and activating the acupuncture points of the body. Acupuncture points are the special points in our body that lie along the side of spiral column. Each specific point corresponds to a particular organ and pressing a point gives a therapeutic effect on that organ. This mainly is done to improve the immune system so that body gains power to fight with many diseases.
Chinese massage is also termed as tai nu' in the traditional Chinese language. Tai' means push and nu' means to grasp. Here mostly hands, arms, elbows, fingers and knees are used for massaging. It tries to maintain a physiological balance in the body to provide a relief to the patient. This technique along with the acupuncture points also uses few exercises and herbal medicines for the treatment of any disorder.
It has proved to be very effective in relieving emotional stress, it cures rheumatic pain and removes tiredness, and it helps in reducing weight and increase energy level through stimulation of points. Various soft tissue injury can be easily treated with Chinese massage techniques. Mainly our muscles due to some injury or pain form certain knots at specific points. These points when pressed release those knots and thus free flow of chi or energy is maintained.
The massage technique is a mixture of various complex techniques that may include rubbing the body with palms. This increases temperature and circulation is enhanced in those areas. Walking technique includes walk of thumb on the spine to activate muscles there and promote free flow of blood. Rolling includes making fist and then rolling the palm all along the back muscles. Besides these, there are many others like dragging, nicking, chopping, scrubbing and tapping.
With so many techniques, this therapy is very effective in treatment of migraine, high blood pressure, frozen shoulders, insomnia, diarrhea, asthma, and cough and also cures different menstrual ailments.
As people are getting more and more health conscious and due to increase of variety of diseases people are turning towards the natural therapies for their treatment. This is a very ancient technique but has gained popularity in recent past only. Now Chinese massage therapy is well known and well applied by people in their lives.
With the higher fame of Chinese massage, a no of people are finding career opportunities in it. You can find a no of experts all around the world. To start with the therapy, first you need to consult a therapist. He will examine you and will ask you everything about your life and lifestyle. This will help him to know about your physical and mental status. He will examine the affected area and will start treatment according to your body anatomy and physiology. Sometimes same techniques can give different results in different individuals. Now there are various websites also that are helping you with online consultation and advices related to any type of massage and they also provide you with a personal online consultant. You can contact him personally on phone or through internet and solve your problems.
