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Rejuvenate your body, mind, and spirit with a relaxing and healing massage. My special massage techniques help reverse the negative effects of stress, repair damaged muscle tissue, and help remove pain throughout your body. Adobe Massage Therapy uses a range of massage techniques that can improve circulation, detoxify your body, relieve tension, improve digestion, enhance muscle tone, and increase mental alertness. My massages not only benefit the body, they benefit the mind as well. Experience mental and spiritual healing as your mind releases stress and worry, and allows a renewed sense to energy and emotional well-being to enter your spirit.

Our massages promote:

• Emotional Balance
• Relaxation
• Physical Healing
• Improved Digestion
• Improved Mobility
• Pain Relief
• Detoxification
• Increased Energy
• Improved Circulation
• Improved Sleeping Patterns
• Stress Reduction
• Increased Productivity

Currently accepting appointments for:

Swedish Massage
Deep Tissue Massage
Trigger Point Therapy/Myotherapy
Reflexology
Hot Stone Massage
Reiki

What is Massage Anyway?

Massage is defined in many different ways. At its most basic, massage is the direct manipulation of the body toward a positive goal. Different styles of massage have different goals. Generally, every variety of massage falls into one of three categories: Western, Eastern, and Erotic. Western massage often has a medical goal: the faster recovery of an injured muscle or soft tissue, an increased amount of oxygen delivery to muscle fibers, or the elimination of pain. Eastern massage often has a more esoteric goal: to relieve stress, to help the client feel balanced and happy, to promote a positive self-image, or to heal sickness in the body not directly associated with the muscles. Western massage focuses on the delivery and movement of lymph, a fluid in the body that delivers oxygen to the cells and transports toxins away from them. Eastern massage concentrates on the energies which exist in the body, and their ability to flow freely and remain balanced. The third type of massage, Erotic massage, is intended solely for sexual stimulation.

Massage Research:

LOS ANGELES ---- Growing numbers of U.S. hospitals, responding to patient demand, are integrating acupuncture, massage therapy and other alternative services into their conventional medical care, a recent national survey shows.

Forty-two percent of hospitals in the September survey said they offer one or more alternative therapies, including meditation, relaxation training, homeopathy and chiropractic care.

That's up from 37 percent of hospitals that said they offered such medical services in 2007.

The alternative options are provided mostly in outpatient settings and come primarily in response to patient requests.

"Hospitals have long known that what they do to treat and heal involves more than just medications and procedures," said Nancy Foster, vice president for quality and patient safety at the American Hospital Association. "It is about using all of the art and science of medicine to restore the patient as fully as possible."

The report is based on responses from 714 hospitals nationwide, or about 12 percent of nearly 6,000 facilities that were mailed surveys last year.

It was written by the Health Forum, a subsidiary of the national hospital association, and the Samueli Institute, a nonprofit research organization that investigates the role of "healing" practices in medical care. The Alexandria, Va., institute was founded by Henry Samueli, co-founder of Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom Corp., and his wife, Susan.

Among the survey's findings: 65 percent of hospitals said they offer alternative therapies for pain management. Massage therapy in particular is given to cancer patients to help alleviate pain and stress.

"Today's patients have better access to health information and are demanding more personalized care," said Sita Ananth, one of the study's authors and director of knowledge services for the Samueli Institute. "The survey results reinforce the fact that patients want the best that both conventional and alternative medicine can offer."

Read more: http://www.nctimes.com/ap/national/article_8fb2b83f-0420-53e9-b64a-e168a939495b.html#ixzz1fadMj1a9

Field, T.M., Sunshine, W., Hernandez-Reif, M., Quintino, O., Schanberg, S., Kuhn, C., & Burman, I. (1997). Massage therapy effects on depression and somatic symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 3, 43-51.

Twenty subjects with chronic fatigue immunodeficiency syndrome were randomly assigned either to a massage therapy or an attention control group. Although depression and anxiety scores were initially as high as clinically depressed patients, analyses of the before versus after therapy session measures on the first and last day of treatment revealed that immediately following massage therapy depression scores, pain, and cortisol levels decreased more in the massage versus control group.

Field, T., Quintino, O., Henteleff, T., Wells-Keife, L. & Delvecchio-Feinberg, G. (1997). Job stress reduction therapies. Alternative Therapies, 3, 54-56.

The immediate effects of brief massage therapy, music relaxation with visual imagery, muscle relaxation, and social support group sessions were assessed in 100 hospital employees at a major public hospital. The effects of the therapies were assessed using a within-subjects pre-post test design and by comparisons across groups. The groups reported decreased anxiety, depression, fatigue, and confusion, as well as increased vigor following the session.



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Adobe Massage Therapy
Las Vegas Nevada
702-265-3794
adobemassagetherapy@gmail.com

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