Massage is a method of treating and preventing diseases. Its essence lies in the mechanical action using special techniques on the surface of the body or any organ. Massage is basically maked using your hands but there is also an apparatus massage made with the help of special tools. Massage therapy is scientifically based, proven by a long-term practice, and the most physiologic for human body health-improving method. It is used both as a preventive measure - to the overall strengthening of the body, and in various areas of medicine: surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, internal medicine, neurology, etc. Therapeutic massage can be used both as an independent method and in combination with other treatment methods.

SPA Massage 

The human body keeps the memory of everything that has happened to it throughout the life. Unexpressed emotions, feelings, inner prohibitions and limitations are building muscle and energy blocks in the body that affect well-being of the body and, ultimately, the full-value of our life.

Massage is loved by everyone or almost everyone. And there is no shyness whether they are thick or slim! For the modern person having a massage is the same necessity as exercising and looking after his/her looks. An excellent massage specialist for many clients is neither more nor less than a "personal doctor" or trainer. A professionally made massage can perform tasks such as: treatment and prevention of specific diseases, body shaping, harmonization of the psycho-emotional background. Approach to each patient must be strictly individual.

The effect of massage on the body  

Massage in medicine is called an evenly mechanical stimulation of the areas of human body made by a massage therapist’s hand or special devices and apparatuses.

Usually, in the mechanism of the massage effect on the body can be distinguished three factors: nervous, humoral, and mechanical. First of all, massage affects the central and autonomic nervous system. At the initial stage of the massage there is a stimulation of receptors embedded in the skin, muscles, tendons, joint capsule, ligaments and vascular walls. Then by sensory pathways impulses caused by this stimulus are transmitted to the central nervous system and reach the relevant parts of the cerebral cortex of the brain. And it is here where the overall complex reaction emerges that causes functional changes in the body.

Origin of SPA  

According to the most common version, SPA is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "Sanitas Pro Aqua" - health through water. This theory is supported by the fact that doctors of antiquity have widely used different hydrotherapeutic procedures, especially bath-houses and baths for treatment and prevention of many diseases. In the modern sense, SPA is a set of therapeutic procedures which are generally based on the contact of a body with warm or hot water. A set of SPA-procedures includes visiting bath-houses, saunas, solarium, having massage sessions, mud, salt and other baths and taking treatment shower and some therapeutic procedures - aromatherapy, thalassotherapy, balneotherapy and herbal medicine.

The basis of the positive effect of the majority of SPA-procedures is increasing blood circulation which helps to improve metabolism rate and prevent congestions in the body and increases vitality. In addition, it also improves the process of sweating and due to that the body more efficiently derives the harmful products of metabolism and goes through purification. Many specialists claim that the most effective procedures for any person are those that for centuries have been practiced by his/her ancestors. In other words, the best health treatments for us will not be exotic thalassotherapy but the Russian bath-house with a broom. The main thing is to know when to stop.