Taking Care of Your Health Through Education
April 27, 2009
As a massage therapist, I am concerned about A-Team Massage’s customers health and well being. Many times I am amazed at the lack of self care. Many times this can be remedied by the customers being educated on how easy it s to take care of themselves.
For example, there are some simple techniques that can be done between massages to keep the knots out of your back. My favorite is the tennis ball and sock technique.
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Take a tennis ball, place it in a tube sock.
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Find a wall and then stand with your back to it.
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Position the tennis ball on the wall directly in front of an area that hurts. Using the sock helps in positioning, especially in the upper back area.
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Lean back into the tennis ball and apply pressure. The pressure needs to be deep enough to get results, but not so deep that you leave bruises. Shift your weight around so the tennis ball moves around on your trigger points.
This is just one example of how you can be educated to take better care of yourself. A key to better self care is reading health articles. You can learn a lot from many educational health articles, one example being the tennis ball technique.
Of course, as a massage therapist I’m really interested in natural health advice for myself and my customers. Modern medicine is great, but many times it’s only duplicating what Mother Nature has already done. For example, aspirin is easily found in nature within willow bark.
Again, education is vital for great self care. Everything from help in determining symptoms for something as intimate and uncomfortable as yeast infection symptoms. Knowing how to self diagnose, backed by a doctor’s visit, is incredibly empowering for your mental and physical well being.
In addition, taking care of your health is about appearance. Face it (pun intended) if you don’t take care of yourself, your appearance will suffer and when you don’t feel good about how you look, that wears on your emotional well being. As you can imagine, there are tons of anti-wrinkle creams out there, but with research you can find the best anti wrinkle cream.
Lastly, not only should you educate yourself on products to use on yourself and ingest, but also excercise equipment and clothing. I don’t know about you, but when working out the last thing you need are really uncomfortable clothes. Researching things like what are the best yoga pants will go a long ways towards keeping you motivated. If your not comfortable doing yoga, you’ll stop.
I think you get the point by now. Educate yourself and you will be a healthier person for it. If you have any questions or would like help in finding something, please feel free to call me. There are many great resources I will be more than happy to point you to.
Sincerely,
Tina
