| counterPoint 360 Dynamic Balance through Muscle Therapy Joe Sharlip, NCTMB |
| Directions: Close to I-76 & I-276 Valley Forge Turnpike Tolls, PA Rtes 202,422 and 23, just minutes from the King of Prussia Mall. At the intersection of Moore Road and Rte 23 in King of Prussia. So, get some theraputic work, and then go "SHOPPING" ! |
| Myotherapy - The Medical Benefits of Massage Virtually everybody can benefit from massage: a stressed-out workforce, people with repetitive job functions, athletes, seniors, and persons recovering from injury. The art of massage was first documented by the ancient Chinese, referring to it as Anmo amma (press-rub) and Tui-na (push-pull). Hippocrates was the first European to write of the medical benefits of massage around 400 B.C. calling it "anatripsis". In the 18th century, Per Henrick Ling took his theories of exercise and gymnastics to the medical community and is credited for the development of Swedish Massage, which serves as the foundation for many of the modern Western modalities practiced today to effect medical benefit from massage. Currently, Dr.Tiffiny Field of the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute is leading the charge to quantify the medical benefits of theraputic touch and massage. Massage is known to produce reflexive reactions that involve the nervous system, its chemical responses, and, muscle movements. This directly effects and benefits restrictions in muscle tissues, and influences receptors in the muscle belly and tendons to encourage relaxation of the muscles and connective tissues. Massage Therapy has been validated to improve blood and lymph circulation, and even digestion. Massage can be used to assist in managing borderline hypertension, it produces pain-killing hormones in the brain called endorphins, and accelerates recovery for athletes 3-5 faster than just rest. Theraputic massage also assists in the production of key "well being" chemicals produced in the brain that can help a person to feel better, relaxed, calm and uplifted. |
| National Certification - NCBTMB National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork Professional Training National Massage Therapy Institute - Nationally accredited by C.O.M.T.A. Memberships - Professional-level Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals - a.b.m.p. |
| For more information on massage, check these other websites: www.abmp.org www.miami.edu/touch-research/index.html www.healinghands.net |
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| Contact me for more information, rates, hours, and appointments: Phone/Fax - (610) 783-7944 Please, no calls between 9pm and 7am Email - |
| Therapeutic Massage Services Offered ... with client privacy and security always top-of-mind. - Swedish stress reduction. - Additional therapeutic techniques utilized: Trigger point relaxation, transverse fiber frictioning, muscle stripping, compression, myofascial release, sports. - Muscle Energy Stretching Techniques. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation. - Joint Movement for extended range of motion. |
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