Massage

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The Therapy:

Massage is practised by both conventional and complementary medicine practitioners, including nurses, osteopaths, chiropractors, reflexologists and aromatherapists. It’s an age-old therapy, found in many ancient cultures: Rome, Greece, Egypt, China and India. In many Eastern cultures, massage is part of everyday life, from infancy through to adulthood. Massage is a blanket term for the manipulation of the skin and underlying tissue using touch and strokes of varying pressure, to release muscular tension and pain, promote relaxation and alleviate stress, tone the skin and muscles, stimulate blood flow and encourage lymphatic drainage that the body uses to get rid of waste.