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How to keep fit by massage?
Nowadays, many people pay attention to health care, and there are many ways to keep healthy. Diet and exercise are common methods of keeping in good health. Massage can also help keep in good health. Massage can help relax the body and mind. Massage has many benefits for the body. So how to keep healthy through massage? What is the method of massage for health preservation? Let's have a look!

1, health massage for health preservation

Health massage refers to the stimulation information generated by doctors' manipulations in appropriate parts of the human body, which affects the neurohumoral regulation function of the human body through reflection, so as to achieve the purposes of eliminating fatigue, regulating internal and external environmental changes, enhancing physical fitness, strengthening physical fitness, preventing aging and prolonging life.

Health massage is a health care method developed by human beings in the struggle against disease and death. It has a long history in China and is a precious wealth of the Chinese nation. Regardless of the past, present or future, health massage has played a great role in keeping fit and prolonging life.

Health massage is a health care method to keep proper exercise on the surface of human body. Many manipulations, gentle movements, flexible application, simple operation and wide application range. Regardless of men and women, old and young, physical illness, you can use different methods to carry out health massage. Now some people teach themselves health massage knowledge and carry out self-health massage; Some people go to massage parlors for health massage; Some people ask masseurs to go to houses or hotels for massage. Today, although many people can enjoy health massage, it is not common. This is because some people don't know enough about the function of health massage, and the lack of masseurs is also one of the reasons. I believe that with the enrichment of people's spiritual life and material life in the future, health massage will definitely enter thousands of households and become people's daily life content and health needs.

There are many methods of health massage, such as surface massage, kneading pool neck, cotton cloth friction, back waist, patting limbs and so on.

With the development of market economy, the gradual improvement of people's material living standards and people's demand for health, various health massage service industries came into being. For example, domestic health massage, children's health massage, sports massage, beauty massage, weight loss massage, as well as foreign tourist massage, situational massage, pet massage and so on.

2, health massage and health

Chronic fatigue syndrome is actually a kind of physical and mental disease that is easy to appear in middle-aged and young people. Physical and mental diseases, also known as physiological and psychological diseases, are a kind of diseases with physical symptoms, but their occurrence, development, prognosis and prevention are closely related to social and psychological factors. At present, there are more than 40 recognized physical and mental diseases. The following are some of them, such as essential hypertension, coronary heart disease, asthma, ulcer, migraine, anorexia nervosa, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, stroke and its sequelae, enuresis, dysmenorrhea, menopausal syndrome, low back pain, neurodermatitis, skin itching and so on. Doing body massage and foot massage can effectively relieve physical (physiological) and mental (psychological) fatigue, so doing health massage is more suitable for chronic fatigue syndrome.

(1) slimming massage

Obesity refers to the excessive accumulation of fat in the human body, which leads to the weight exceeding 20% of the standard weight of normal people. Most people think that the causes of obesity are related to family inheritance, less exercise and high fat content in diet. Obesity has been puzzling people's lives for many years, and it is also a hot topic in the world today. Many medical scientists at home and abroad are committed to studying the causes of obesity in order to find an effective, safe and painless way to lose weight, but little progress has been made. In recent years, various methods of losing weight have appeared in our society, such as Chinese and Western medicine, surgery, dieting, fasting, qigong, exercise, acupuncture weight loss, massage and Italian pepper. As a unique method of losing weight, massage not only has a good effect of losing weight, but also can relax meridians, promote blood circulation and promote qi circulation, and has no adverse effects on human body, which has been gradually recognized by people.

Practice in recent years has proved that massage can consume and remove a lot of lipid substances in the blood vessel wall, dilate capillaries, increase blood flow and improve microcirculation, which not only reduces the burden on the heart, but also helps to enhance the body's disease resistance. Therefore, massage can not only achieve the goal of losing weight, but also enhance physical fitness, which is a good way for obese people to get rid of pain as soon as possible and restore their bodybuilding.

(2) Beauty massage

The application of beauty massage technology has a long history, and it has been proved by science and practice to be one of the effective beauty methods. Today, with the reform and opening up, people's pursuit of beauty is more intense. With the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standards, beauty saddle has entered the society and family, and has become a life demand for people, especially women, to protect skin and keep fit and delay aging. At present, "beauty salons", "beauty schools" and "beauty associations" have been set up all over the country, adding new luster to people's beautification of life.

Beauty massage is to beautify the face through massage. Life lies in exercise, and so does skin? Massage is the most active method to stimulate and nourish skin, which can not only make rough skin smooth and tender, but also delay the appearance of facial wrinkles, make wrinkles appear lighter and less, prevent facial spots and delay the appearance of senile spots.

(3) Beauty massage

Everyone has a love of beauty. A beautiful hair, with black luster and elasticity, soft and elegant, enviable. However, without maintenance. It will make hair dry, split, discolored and dull, and even cause serious hair loss, which makes people feel uneasy. As we all know, the growth and maintenance of hair depends entirely on the blood in the scalp for nutrition. Therefore, the quality of human hair plays a decisive role in people's overall health, and hairdressing massage has the following two functions. First, it can promote the blood circulation of the scalp and supplement more and better nutrition for the growth and maintenance of hair. Second, the head meridians are concentrated and the acupoints are densely covered, which is closely related to the brain, viscera and qi and blood. Massage can not only dredge qi and blood, regulate yin and yang, but also regulate the functions of various organs in the human body, promote human health and further provide favorable conditions for hair growth and maintenance.

(4) Bath massage

It is common for people to feel tired after a day's work, whether mentally or physically, such as emotional tension, dizziness, muscle aches and so on. If you simply relax and rest, you can't completely eliminate fatigue quickly, which will not only affect your work and study the next day, but also affect your health and even cause illness. At this time, if you take a hot bath and massage all over the body or locally, you can promote blood circulation and make all tissues and organs of the human body get sufficient nutrition, which can not only quickly eliminate fatigue, but also increase muscle strength and skin elasticity and delay aging. Therefore, bath massage has been loved by more and more people. Bath massage is an integral part of massage technology. Although it originated in China, Japanese, Southeast Asian, European and American countries and regions are developing rapidly. Popular bath massages abroad include: jet bath massage, air bath massage, mud bath and sand bath massage, and space bath massage beyond the reach of ordinary people. These massage methods are not popular in China, but still in the embryonic stage, which needs to be developed in the future. In China, bath massage refers to the so-called "bath" in the "bath" or the massage carried out indoors after a steam bath. Bath massage techniques are generally from heavy to light kneading, vibrating, shaking, pushing and patting, so that patients can get rid of fatigue as soon as possible and promote them to sleep as soon as possible.

(5) Whole body health massage

Whole-body health massage is a massage technique that the masseur massages the whole body of the patient, which can eliminate fatigue, relieve tension, relax muscles and tendons, and refresh the mind. After massage, people will feel relaxed, comfortable and refreshed.

The operation sequence of whole body massage is: supine position, head and face-upper limbs-chest-abdomen-lower limbs, turn to prone position, head and neck-back-lower limbs-feet. In the whole body health massage, you can also choose local health massage or local conditioning according to your physical condition and requirements. Generally, the whole body massage lasts for 45 minutes, and the local health massage lasts for 30 minutes. According to the needs of prevention and health care of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, our hospital integrates the characteristics of health care massage in the north and south, and reasonably arranges 60-minute full-body massage routines such as pushing, taking, rolling, beating and rubbing. Because of its strong penetration, smooth rhythm and comfortable relaxation, it is well received by customers. Full-body health massage has a wide range of applications, including places where mental work, manual work, excessive exercise, travel or long-term computer operation cause excessive fatigue; General malaise caused by various factors, such as headache, dizziness, limb aches, strong neck pain, low back pain, stiff neck, scapulohumeral periarthritis, dyspnea, insomnia, abdominal distension, dysmenorrhea, dyspepsia and colds, all belong to the scope of health massage.

3. The benefits of massage

(1) Improve human blood circulation.

Massage can dilate peripheral blood vessels, reduce the resistance in large circulation, reduce the burden on the heart, accelerate venous blood return, improve blood supply and oxygen supply to myocardium, enhance heart function, and help improve human blood circulation.

(2) improve lymphatic circulation

After massage, the lymphatic flow velocity is increased by 7 times before nasal massage, which is helpful to absorb exudate and has a good effect on eliminating local edema and discharging lymphotoxin.

(3) can calm and relieve pain.

Massage is a good powerless stimulus, which can excite and inhibit the nervous system through nerve reflex and affect the functions of various organs.

Stimulating the human body to remember specific acupoints or local pressing can relieve pain and transfer pain points. This may be related to the internal and external inhibition of the cerebral cortex and the excitation dominance rule of the cerebral cortex. Massage can dredge meridians and achieve the purpose of dredging. In addition, massage enhances the stability of cell membrane, changes the concentration of potassium ions, and eliminates or relieves headache symptoms.

(4) improve the body's immunity

Then we can increase the immune system function of the human body by stimulating specific acupoints. For example, pressing Dazhui point can increase the number of white blood cells in human body, and massaging Zusanli and Yongquan points can enhance physical fitness, improve the immunity and disease resistance of respiratory system, and achieve the purpose of preventing colds.

(5) Protect skin health

Massage can directly act on the skin, which can eliminate local decayed epithelial cells, improve the skin's breathing and improve the functions of capillaries, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, lymphatic vessels and neurostriations. Massage can dilate skin capillaries, increase blood flow and temperature, and increase gland secretion, thus improving skin nutrition and metabolism, promoting the repair of damaged skin and delaying skin aging.

(6) regulating the human nervous system

Massage can adjust the nervous system through different massage hands, and adjust the balance between excitement and inhibition of human body. For example, insomnia can be suppressed by pressing the temple, Shenting point and Baihui point, eliminating excessive excitement and making it sleep peacefully.

(7) eliminate fatigue

Massage can make muscle fibers move passively and relax the muscles they pull. Muscle and blood vessels are rich, metabolism is vigorous, and fatigue is easy to occur during exercise. Massage can open a large number of capillaries in muscles, strengthen blood supply, replenish oxygen and nutrients needed by muscles in time, and accelerate the excretion of metabolites such as lactic acid in muscles. Relieve fatigue symptoms and restore the normal working ability of muscles.