Touch Therapy Massage

One of the fastest growing sectors in the health care industry is the field of Touch Therapy Massage. Massage therapy is a therapeutic intervention focused on increasing the comfort and soothing the patient while removing painful structures of the body. This type of therapy is similar to chiropractic manipulation but instead of eliminating pain, it targets disruptions in the neuromusculoskeletal system that cause pain.

The therapeutic touch therapy massage uses touch to trigger the body’s natural healing response and encourages increased blood circulation. It usually involves soothing manipulation of soft tissue and soft-tissue areas such as muscle and ligament tissue, tendons, and subcutaneous fat. Using touch therapy helps reduce pain and improve mobility. Some practitioners and followers of this modality claim that therapeutic touch therapy can increase overall well-being, improve mood and feelings of well-being, promotes increased vitality and vigor, enhances sleep, promotes weight loss or reduction of weight, improves athletic performance, and lowers blood pressure.

To understand touch therapy, one must first understand how touch therapy works. Touch therapy incorporates the use of transducers (light energy fields) to excite the central nervous system, bringing about a relaxation response, releasing tension and activating healing responses. To start, the patient lies face down on a massage table or chair with the feet firmly on the floor. Then a licensed therapist slowly begins to apply light energy fields in an upward motion to the patient’s back and abdomen to ” Trigger” the relaxation response.