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Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 10
Relaxation is not a mood. It is heart, breath, glands, lymph, and gut switching modes together, and every one of them leaves a trace you can see. A closing tour of the whole-body session, and a checklist for knowing it worked.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 9
Three Asian bodywork traditions arrived at the same practical wisdom by different roads: hold still, use weight not effort, let the tissue set the timing, keep one hand listening. We borrow the practice, not the metaphysics, and say which is which.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 8
Therapists have judged posture with a weighted string for a century, and the profession is honest about how unreliable that snapshot is. A phone camera that watches continuously can do better, if it compares you to yourself rather than to a chart.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 7
A tour of the muscles that hold up the bladder, wrap the urethra, and sit under a gland most men never think about until it complains. What massage therapy teaches about this region, what it refuses to do, and where masseuse.ai fits.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 6
Therapists have used contract-then-relax tricks since the 1940s. They work because of three circuits in the spinal cord. Here is how those circuits behave, how hands exploit them, and what happens when the contraction arrives by wire.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 5
Pain is a verdict the nervous system reaches, not a reading it takes. How that idea evolved, why it makes 'no pain, no gain' the most expensive myth in bodywork, and how masseuse.ai is built to hear the verdict early.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 4
A muscle needs fuel to relax, not just to contract. That single fact explains trigger points, the blanch-and-flush of a held thumb, and why masseuse.ai spends half of every session doing nothing on purpose.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 3
Massage training spends real time on where not to press. Electrical stimulation needs the same map, redrawn for a force that travels. The zones, the reasons, and the rules that never bend.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 2
Every massage is built from six techniques and five kinds of force. Here is what each one does, and an honest account of which ones electro-massage can reproduce.
Massage Therapy, ReconsideredPart 1
The best therapists read a body, not a checklist. What they watch for, why pressure is the wrong thing to brag about, and how masseuse.ai learned the same habits.
