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Using Infrared Therapy Lamps as a Wellness Tool     Those who suffer from chronic back pain know the typical suggestions for dealing with it: exercise, stretching, medication, muscle relaxants, massage therapy etc. Oftentimes, one symptoms of muscle or joint pain is accompanied by several others, such as poor circulation, stiffness, restricted mobility and muscle spasms. It doesn’t take long to get frustrated with a sore and tense back that you start to view the daily pain as inevitable. But perhaps there is one more option available for consideration. Infrared therapy lamps use innovative wavelength technology to stimulate local circulation and provide temporary relief of muscle and joint pain. This technique, using therapeutic infrared heat to penetrate muscles and connective...

Take Your Fitness to the Next Level: Add Massage! Fitness is next to Godliness - or at least it's close. As a culture, we are becoming increasingly more conscious of the necessity of regular exercise in order to lead a healthy, balanced life. In a city like Vancouver, you’re hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t actively take measures to get outside or get to the gym at least once a week. This is all well and good but sometimes we push ourselves a little too hard during a workout. It’s not uncommon to hear someone finish a workout only to exclaim, “I’m going to be sore for days after this.” We spend a lot of time doing weight training or...

Can Massage Therapy Help Improve Your Posture? Most of us know that our posture could use some improving. The hours we spend sitting at desks, looking at computers and straining our necks reading on wireless devices has started taking its toll on our posture. Some experts suggest that when it comes to neck and back pain, poor posture is the number one culprit. Developing poor posture subtly puts your spine in misalignment, causing some muscles to work extraordinarily hard while other muscles which are not being used get increasingly weaker. Being hunched over also has consequences for other physiological mechanisms. Poor posture can cause you to exert undue pressure on your internal organs, negatively affecting processes like digestion, circulation and...

Too Cold To Cope? Increase Body Temperature With Massage! Those of us with a seemingly low body temperature most find ourselves cold in a room full of comfortable people. We may start shaking or shivering while waiting for the bus during the winter or get a cold simply from spending time in a highly air-conditioned area. Having an abnormally low body temperature can prevent you from doing the things you want to do, or perhaps make it difficult to enjoy being outdoors during Vancouver’s rainy months. One of the reasons experts cite for people with low body temperature is poor circulation. Those of us who experience poor circulation can start to lose feeling in limbs or extremities without warning when...

Is Acupressure Massage the Answer to Your Problems? As we come to understand body as a complex, dynamic and interactive system, it becomes more apparent mental and physical well-being are intrinsically interdependent. The brain does not simply exist in the head, it extends down the body’s entire nervous system, making decisions based on the state of the entire body. This is why it is important to take care of the physical body in order to achieve optimal energy, sleep, digestion and emotional well-being. For centuries, the health benefits of acupuncture have been recognized and esteemed. Nearly everyone can improve their body’s functioning and promote natural self-healing with this practice. Acupuncture is a 3,000 year-old healing technique of Traditional Chinese Medicine....