The Most Effective Spa Treatments

By Gregory Song, CMT

Vienna Green Spa & Massage

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The Most Effective Spa Treatments

Everyone loves going to the spa.  It makes us feel better and be healthier.  Simply stated, going to the spa for a variety of treatments is good for us.

To be the most effective, spas that that include a variety of body treatments that incorporate massage, water is, or should be, the heart of the spa experience.

Hot water has four main benefits in pain relief, muscle relaxation, blood flow alterations, and connective tissue effects. It is well known how heat application reduces pain by increasing pain nerve fiber conduction rates, which would raise pain thresholds and reduce the current level of pain experienced.

Hot water also reduces muscle spasm and promotes muscle relaxation by softening and lengthening collagen within muscles and tendons.

Heat applications cause an initial increase in localized blood flow by reflexive vasodilation, mainly in the skin. Patients often begin to perspire to help cool the body. Therefore, it should be noted that superficial heat application does not increase blood flow to the underlying muscle.

Koreans have always advocated and used water’s healing effects in the form of various baths and other treatment methods. For being specialized in hydro-bodywork, some agents added to the water to enhance its therapeutic value are minerals, seaweed, salt, essential oils, and milk.

Korean people have enjoyed the relaxing pleasures and therapeutic benefits of soaking in warm water. A medicated bath is best used before a massage session.

A far infrared carbon flex sauna helps to improve a person’s detoxification with bathing. This process leads to relaxed muscles and relieves tired joints. It in turn raises tissue temperature, brings nutrients to the area, increases the rate of clearing metabolic wastes, and increases capillary permeability and fluid exchange.

Exfoliation using a body scrub can be performed on a wet table with the client lying down. One of the most popular exfoliants is an organic sugar.

Finally, the spa experience should include expertise in advanced trigger points and neuromuscular therapy, craniosacral therapy and anti-aging facial lifting which is very beneficial for fibromyalgia, migraine, frozen shoulder, rotator cuffs, sciatic pain, pinched nerve, bunion, plantar fasciitis and carpal tunnel pain syndrome.

Hydro-bodywork is the internal and external therapeutic manipulation with water, heat, and complementary agents that make them the most effective spa treatments.