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How to Self-Massage Trigger Points: Techniques You Can Use at Home Between Sessions

By Blys | For Clients, Self-Care Tips

Self-massage for trigger points is one of those things that sounds more complicated than it is, until you actually try to reach the spot between your shoulder blades that has been bothering you for six months, at which point it is considerably more complicated than it sounds. The honest position on trigger point self massage is this: it works well for some areas, works partially for others, and does not work at all for a few that require a trained set of hands to reach . Knowing which category your problem falls into saves a lot of time spent pressing a tennis ball into spots that are not going to respond no matter how long you sit on them.

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Trigger Point Massage Tools: Which Devices Actually Help Release Muscle Knots

By Blys | For Clients, Self-Care Tips

The market for trigger point massage tools is enormous, which reflects how many people have a knot they cannot reach and enough disposable income to buy something that promises to fix it. Some of these tools work well. Some work partially. A few are solving a problem that does not exist. This is an honest guide to which devices actually help release muscle knots, what each one does, and what to expect before spending money on any of them.

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Trigger Point Massage for Neck and Shoulder Pain: How to Release the Key Knots

By Blys | For Clients, Self-Care Tips

Neck and shoulder tension is one of those things that starts as a minor annoyance and gradually becomes part of how you carry yourself. The slight hunch, the shoulder that creeps up towards the ear during a stressful meeting, the feeling that your neck has permanently forgotten what loose feels like. Most people manage it with heat packs, ibuprofen, and the occasional optimistic attempt to self-massage a spot they cannot quite reach. Trigger point massage for neck pain takes a more specific approach: finding the trigger points in the neck and shoulders that are driving the tension, and releasing them at the source rather than working around them.

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Trigger Point Massage for Sciatica and Lower Back Pain: Targeting the Right Areas

By Blys | For Clients, Self-Care Tips

Sciatica has a talent for being exactly as bad as you think it is going to be, and then slightly worse. The sharp, radiating pain that shoots from the lower back down through the buttock and into the leg is one of those experiences that is hard to explain to someone who has not had it and impossible to forget once you have. The good news is that a large proportion of sciatica cases are not coming from the sciatic nerve itself. They are coming from trigger points in the surrounding muscles, tight irritable spots that refer pain along the nerve’s path and mimic sciatic nerve compression almost perfectly.

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What Is Thai Massage? Techniques, Philosophy and What Makes It Different

By Blys | For Clients, Self-Care Tips

Thai massage is one of the most distinctive bodywork traditions available, and also one of the most misunderstood. It shares a name with massage but works almost nothing like the Swedish or therapeutic sessions most people are familiar with. No oils, no lying still while someone works on your muscles. Thai massage is active, clothed, and rooted in a philosophy about energy and movement that has been practised for over 2,500 years. This guide covers what it actually is, how it works, and whether it suits what you are looking for. If you have been putting it off, this is probably the thing that tips you over.

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Thai Massage for Back Pain and Stiff Muscles: What the Research Actually Shows

By Blys | For Clients, Self-Care Tips

Most people who deal with chronic back pain have tried something, whether it’s stretching, hot packs, a foam roller gathering dust in the corner, or a physio appointment that helped for a week. Thai massage tends to come up eventually, usually from someone who swears by it, and while it is easy to dismiss as another wellness trend, there is genuine research behind why it works for back pain and why it works differently to most other approaches. Here is what the evidence actually says.

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What to Expect During a Thai Massage: Pressure, Stretching and How a Mobile Session Works

By Blys | For Clients, Self-Care Tips

First time booking a Thai massage ? It helps to know what you’re walking into. Thai massage is one of the most distinctive bodywork experiences available, and it works almost nothing like the table massage most people are familiar with. This guide covers exactly what happens during a session, what to wear, how pressure works, and what a mobile session looks like at home.

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