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Workshop: #401 Basic Aquassage Benefits/Routine
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| #401 Basic Aquassage Benefits/Routine | ||||
| Mrs. Jeanie Esckilsen RMT, RMI, CNMT | ||||
| Instructor: Mrs. Jeanie Esckilsen RMT, RMI, CNMT Cost: $75.00 per Workshop 3 CEU AQUATIC THERAPY Still known as hydrotherapy in Europe, it is recommended for patients whose medical condition causes pain during therapy outside of water, or whose rehabilitation will be aided by a water environment. Procedures range from immersion in a whirlpool bath to movement therapy in a swimming pool. AQUASSAGE This unique form of therapy has been described as water ballet, though it is wholly passive on the patient's part. The therapist holds, floats, tosses, or stretches patients through the water in a specific sequence of movements. The effect is somewhat like aquatic yoga combined with maneuvers from shiatsu, or Chinese massage. SESSION You'll find yourself floating in a warm-water swimming pool, about 4-1/2 feet deep, cradled in the arms of a practitioner who gently stretches and massages your spine and limbs. Your face remains above the surface of the water at all times. The feeling of weightlessness and the caress of the water make this type of massage especially pleasant. And the relative freedom from the effects of gravity may encourage more movement in the joints and spine and enable you to reach a deeper level of relaxation than is possible while being held to a massage table by gravity. Differences between people in body weight, size, and flexibility are easily accommodated in water. Aquassage practitioners use Zen shiatsu massage interspersed with moments of stillness. Traditional shiatsu involves the use of thumbs and fingers on pressure points of the body in order to release tension and stimulate the flow of vital energy ("chi") through the energy channels ("meridians") identified in acupuncture theory. In Zen shiatsu, the practitioner uses his or her forearms, elbows, knees, as well as thumbs, and there is a greater emphasis on gentle stretching along the meridians. Benefits: it may lead to many of the benefits researchers have found in other forms of massage: release of tension, greater freedom of movement of joints and muscles, pain reduction, and deep relaxation. For example, in a study published in the April 1992 issue of the American Journal of Pain Management, 52 patients with spinal pain syndromes who received shiatsu and other forms of massage had significant improvements in acute and chronic pain and increased muscle flexibility and tone. Practitioners say Aquassage particularly eases the pain of fibromyalgia and musculoskeletal conditions. |
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