Massage Therapy and Your Health

In recent years, Massage Therapy has shaken off its image of seedy massage parlors providing sexual services to clients. It has also abandoned the image of pampered rich people at spas or in tony health clubs. Today, Massage Therapy is for everyone. Many medical insurance plans even include massage therapy under basic coverage. It is truly coming of age.

Massage addresses medical issues, treats injuries and helps people recover emotionally and physically. Sports Massage helps athletes maintain peak performance. Massage also helps sufferers escape chronic pain and new born mothers avoid post partum depression. More and more research is beginning to show the positive healing affects of massage therapy. It can alleviate various forms of medical problems and emotionally based health issues.

Massage is a wise career choice, although there are still issues concerning universal requirements for licensing and practicing. There are so many different options within the field. There is Asian Massage Therapy with its emphasis on the holistic approach to healing through massage. There is also the totally physical philosophy of Swedish, Sports and Medical Massage. In between these two types are the eclectic versions of massage therapy including Reiki and Reflexology. These draw upon Western and/or Asian traditions to create a new entity.

Massage therapy is an alternative means to health. It is a different approach to help heal, repair and transform the body. Together with Western medical philosophy, Massage Therapy provides an excellent form of CAM – complementary and Alternative Medicine.

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Natural Approach To Dealing With Your Asthma Problem

Asthma is a terrible problem that is suffered by many millions of people all over the world, although there does seem to be a higher prevalence of asthmatics in developed countries where the diet is richer than there are in less developed countries.

Nevertheless, for asthma sufferers all over the world, it is a condition that is at best debilitating and scary, whilst at worst, it can be fatal. If you suspect that you have asthma problem, you need to visit a suitably qualified medical professional to seek diagnostic confirmation. Thereafter, you have choices to make, but in all honesty, I would suggest that there really are no choices to be made in reality.

Many of the drugs that are prescribed for long-term control of asthma can have some very unpleasant side effects indeed, whereas as with the vast majority of natural treatments, there are no evil side-effects.

Given that every asthma sufferer reacts to treatments in different ways and the fact that many of these natural methods of handling asthma have been proven to work, it has to make sense to try to deal with your asthma condition naturally before turning to pharmaceutical drugs. What you do for short term treatment of your condition will depend upon how serious your asthma attacks are, because if they are serious enough, you may still need to use a nebulizer.

Nevertheless, over the long term, adopting a natural approach to dealing with your asthma problem has got to be the sensible way of going about things.

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Lifestyle Changes for Asthma, The Little Known Secrets

Lifestyle Changes for Asthma

What changes can you make to your life and lifestyle that will reduce the asthma risk in your life? There are some changes that you can no doubt make almost immediately. For example, if you eat nuts, dried fruit and bread as part of your every day diet, you could try cutting them out to see if it makes any difference. If it is going to make a difference, it should be something that you would see within a few days or weeks, either by using your peak flow meter to register an improvement in your breathing quality or because the frequency of asthma attacks falls away.

Do you read the labels on all the food that you eat? If not, then you will have little or no idea of whether you are eating MSG, tatrazine or any of the hundreds of different preservatives that are commonly used in every day foodstuffs. Start reading the labels now and begin to cut out foods that carry chemicals that could be a contributory factor to your asthma.

Lifestyle Changes for Asthma
If you have half a dozen furry animals running around the house, you should know that they are exacerbating your asthma problem. Thus, you have a choice of living with the problem or asking someone else to look after your menagerie.

If you smoke, quit now. If another member of your family smokes, make them understand how sick it is making you in an effort to get them to stop.

Even if you have the cleanest imaginable house, the chances are that you still have millions of bugs and mites and you may even have cockroaches. Contact the local pest control people as soon as possible to get their assistance in getting rid of these unwelcome visitors.

Lifestyle Changes for Asthma
At the same time, consider buying new bedding, mattresses and pillows because getting rid of the old stuff is one of the quickest ways of cutting the population of unwelcome ‘guests’ by millions in one fell swoop. Keep an eye on the pollen count in spring and summer and try to avoid going out any more than necessary when the figures are at their highest. If you work in a job where you are subjected to chemical fumes or some other form of pollution, is it realistic to consider changing your work? If so, you should do so, because it is obvious that your condition is never going to improve as long as you’re working in a polluted environment.

Are you a person who suffers from anxiety attacks or stress? If so, you might want to consider taking up something like meditation or yoga as a way of learning to control your more extreme emotions. This in turn will reduce the likelihood that you will suffer recurring asthma attacks caused by stress or anxiety.

Lifestyle Changes for Asthma
If you are taking medication of some description for another medical condition, are those medicines aggravating your asthma problem? If so, you should probably consult your medical attendant to see whether they can change your medication to reduce the difficulties that the current medication is causing you.

If you have asthma or suffer asthma attacks, the lifestyle that you currently lead probably plays a significant role in ensuring that you cannot get rid of your problem.

Hence, making the necessary changes is going to be a significant step in the right direction, so you should start to make these changes as quickly as possible.

Even if every small change make only makes the tiniest contribution to your efforts to reduce your susceptibility to asthma attacks, the combined effect of all of these changes taken together will be significant.