Massage Therapy
Hot Rock Therapy – what is it and why does Charlene use it?
1. You Relax More
When your muscles are warm, they respond better to massage techniques like kneading and rolling. The benefit of the heat resting on your body releases deeps tension to helps ease sore muscles.
When your therapist is better able to massage your muscles, your experience is more relaxing.
Hot stones help kick start your total mind and body relaxation.
2. Your Circulation Improves
During the massage, your therapist places heated stones on trigger points throughout your body.
The heat from the stones penetrates through muscle to open your blood vessels. As this happens, blood flows more freely through your body for better circulation.
As your circulation improves, more oxygen reaches your muscles to help reduce aches and pains.
3. Your Stress Eases
The light pressure from the warm stones can be soothing. Hot stone therapy feels like a warm hug in a safe place.
Stresses take a back seat while your massage therapist works your muscles. Hot stone therapy can also help with symptoms of depression and anxiety.
4. Your Sleep Improves
Pain or anxious thoughts disrupt sleep. Receiving regular massage helps keep those symptoms to a minimum over time.
With the added benefits of hot stones during your massage, you’ll feel more relaxed, less tense, and ready for more regular nights of restful sleep.
With the added benefits of hot stones during your massage, you’ll feel more relaxed, less tense, and ready for more regular nights of restful sleep.
5. Your Pain Subsides
Back or neck pain is often caused by poor posture leading to tight muscles. You might apply a heating pad to a sore low back to help relieve pain.
When muscles are extra tight, sometimes a massage alone isn’t enough to loosen you enough to relieve pain. That’s when heat helps most.
Targeted heat from hot stones helps warm your muscles for better manipulation during the massage.
Sometimes the pain you feel is deep within your muscles and joints. Heat helps your massage therapist work a little deeper into your tissue.
6. Your Flexibility Increases
If you have an injury or extremely tight joints, placing hot stones on and around those joints helps loosen those areas better than massage without the use of hot stones.
With regular hot stone therapy, you’ll notice your flexibility improves over time. Your joints will be more relaxed, and you’ll find it easier to move with less friction and pain.
We created a soothing atmosphere for you to completely relax during your hot stone massage.
7. Helps Fight Disease
Be sure your massage therapist knows you deal with an autoimmune disease before your appointment. They should take special care during your massage to respond to the effects of your disease on your body.
But if you and your doctor agree, hot stone therapy can help ease painful conditions associated with fibromyalgia, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune diseases.
8. Boosts Your Immunity
A scientific study showed an increase in lymphocytes after a single session of Swedish massage. Lymphocytes help white blood cells fight infection in the body.
Adding hot stone therapy before your Swedish massage might enhance the effectiveness of the massage to boost your infection-fighting cells.
9. Your Spasms Decrease
If you’ve ever had a muscle spasm, you know how painful they are.
Some muscle spasms can be debilitating. Other spasms can last for hours.
With a hot stone massage, the benefit of heat loosens your muscles more effectively. This technique also helps reduce inflammation common with muscles in spasm.
To schedule a massage therapy appointment with Charlene, call 208.368.1067.
