Most therapeutic spas have a massage section as well. Guests can choose from a wide range of massage treatments here. The touch itself has a curative effect. Clinical research has proved that being touched regularly can reduce stress, prevent depression, strengthen the immune system, heal patients faster, make healthy people avoid illnesses and sleep better.
It is a sad thing to live without being touched by others. Unfortunately the so-called civilised lifestyle that we follow today isolates people, very often not even young people get a touch from others and old people are definitely touched far too rarely. Massage history. Massage has been used to heal people all over the world for thousands of years, and its roots are especially strong in the natural healing methods of the Far East, such as ayurvedic medicine in India, but there is also a traditional Japanese massage type called shiatsu, or we could name Thai massage and Balinese massage too.
In Europe it was Swedish fencing master Pehr Henrik Ling who systematised massage techniques and combined them with gymnastic exercises. He also studied the physiological effects of massage. In Ling established the Central Institute of Gymnastics and Massage and since then this form of massage has been called Swedish massage or classic massage. Massage types. Different massage types form a real labyrinth, it would be impossible to list all of them.
We can categorise treatment types using a large number of aspects. One way to differentiate between massage types is whether the client is lying down or sitting. Another categorisation is whether the client keeps their clothes on or has to lie on the massage bed naked. It is also very important to specify the strength of the techniques, as some massage types basically regenerate the skin, while others stimulate lymph circulation or relax the muscles.
There are reflexology massage types such as foot massage, which stimulates the reflex points on the human body to affect various organs or physiological processes positively. It also matters whether the masseur uses some kind of tool or not, e.
