Types and functions of health massage
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 care and massage themselves according to their knowledge; 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.
Weight loss 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 purpose of losing weight, but also enhance physical fitness. For obese people, it is a good way to get rid of the pain as soon as possible and restore their bodybuilding.
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.
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.
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.
Full body massage:
Whole-body health massage is a massage technique used by the masseur to massage the whole body of patients, which can eliminate fatigue, relieve tension, relax muscles and tendons, relax the body and stretch the bones and muscles. After massage, people will feel relaxed and comfortable.
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 massage lasts for 30 minutes. According to the needs of prevention and health care of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, our hospital has arranged a 60-minute body massage routine reasonably, which has strong penetration, smooth rhythm, comfort and relaxation, and 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.
Phototherapy bath therapy:
Steam bath, also known as "sauna", is a kind of bathing method that urbanites like and a good way to keep fit. People can feel phlegm, nose and mouth at the same time when the damp-heat gas is transpiration, and all of them are restrained in the skin and viscera, which can not only invigorate yang and qi, but also nourish yin and moisten dryness, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, and have the effects of harmonizing camp and health, calming the nerves and calming the mind. Now medicine has confirmed that the action factors of steam bath on human body are the dual effects of high temperature and air humidity and the stimulation of cold air or cold water. It can promote metabolism, accelerate blood circulation, improve the functions of respiratory and cardiovascular systems, help restore fatigue and repair damaged tissues, and regulate the nervous system.
Medicated bath-refers to the fitness method of adding decoction or immersion liquid of medicine to bath water, or directly bathing the whole body or fumigating and washing the affected parts with Chinese herbal medicine steam. It is a distinctive method of keeping in good health in traditional Chinese medicine, and medicinal bath plays an extremely important role in beauty. In addition to the physical and chemical effects of water itself (mainly heating), medicinal bath is mainly the influence of drugs on human body. The effective components of the aqueous solution of the medicine enter the body from the body surface and respiratory mucosa, and have the effects of dredging channels and collaterals, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, expelling wind and cold, clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness and relieving itching. Modern pharmacological research has also confirmed that the smell of drugs can increase the content of some immunoglobulins in the blood after entering the human body, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and preventing diseases.
Bath therapy also includes phototherapy, which uses infrared rays and ultraviolet rays in light to irradiate the surface of human body to regulate human body and achieve health care; A method of using salt, organic substances, colloidal substances, etc. to penetrate, such as sand bath. Into the human skin to play a role.
In a word, bath therapy can promote human blood circulation, regulate nervous system function, regulate human information and biological energy, promote metabolism and improve human immune function.
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. Psychosomatic diseases, also known as victorious mental 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.