Archive for January, 2012
Why it’s so hard to find a great Los Angeles Massage
Los Angeles County has 72 municipalities inside of it including Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Culver City to name a few. Each municipality has its own city government with rules, regulations and codes to follow.
Up until September of 2009 there were no streamlined regulations for massage therapists in LA County and schooling requirements as well as licensure was up to each municipality. Some municipalities such as Beverly Hills actually had no requirements whatsoever to become a licensed massage therapist and therefore, any person who awoke one day with the idea they would like to promote touching people ‘legitimately’ could obtain a license for just under $800 and apply to work at the spas and chiropractic offices in town.
It is so hard to find a quality Los Angeles massage because of the lack of regulation for massage in California. Even with the California license put in effect, it is still not a requirement to hold a state license to work in the field of massage and people are still able to obtain a city license as a form of legitimacy for their touch practice.
Myofascial Deep Tissue for Low Back Pain
Low back pain is the number one body ache complaint among adults worldwide. Almost all low back pain is muscularly related whether that is the muscles pulling the vertebrae out of place, a tight muscle fiber restricting a nerve causing shooting pains or a constricted muscle causing stiffness of the back and inhibiting movement.
The two largest lower back muscles include the quadratus lumborum (the muscle that allows you to turn side to side and goes from your hip bone to the lower spine just below your ribcage) and the multifidi (the muscle that bends you forward and goes from the base of your spine running between each vertebra to your neck). With tension in either of these muscles, you may experience stiffness, shooting pains, inflexibility to turn or bend forward or a general ‘back ache’.
Myofascial deep tissue for low back pain should be an essential part of your healing treatment. With lengthening techniques to manually stretch the multifidi and cross fiber techniques to release tension in the quadratus lumborum, myofascial deep tissue for low back pain is an essential part of your healing and can rid you of your low back pain in as little as one treatment.
Anniversary Present
“For our one year anniversary my husband surprised me with a couple’s massage in our home. I must give credit where credit is due; he did a fantastic job researching couple massage California. We had an incredible selection of treatments to choose from.
They offered reflexology, hawaiian lomi lomi, and cupping. There were even options I’d never heard of before like Lomi Lomi and acupressure facelifts. In the end we opted for lomi lomi that was a totally exquisite experience!”
~ Lomi Lomi Couples recipients