Is your job a pain in the neck? What about the lower back? Feet and knees? Is the job you do 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, affecting your body's ability to function normally? Let's face it, many of us spend 30 or 40 hours a week, week after week, year after year, doing the same exact thing, over and over and over again. As a massage therapist, I see the effects the workplace has on my customers every day. Most of my customers come to me because of chronic pain in the their neck, shoulders or back, due to hours of sitting at a desk, cradling a phone while working on a computer. Often I see customers with pain or headaches due to the effects of a chronically stressful life. Occasionally, I'll see someone with foot, knee or back pain due to standing on concrete floors for hours.
The benefits of regular massage therapy
The quickest and most effective way to combat the stress you put on your body from doing the same thing day after day is to do something different! To offset the effects of sitting at a desk all day, stretch the specific muscles that are tight. Have regular deep tissue massage to lengthen and work the tension out of the muscles. If you spend 6 weeks of concentrated effort utilizing the talents of a licensed massage therapist, and do 5 minutes of stretching at your desk, 2 to 3 times a day, you will reduce or eliminate the pain in your neck, shoulders and back! Click here to try a few stretches designed to relieve tension in the neck, shoulders and back. Do these stretches twice a day for the next few weeks. If you do them daily, I guarantee you will feel less pain, have more mobility and feel much better than you have in years!
