Massage stone therapy, otherwise known as hot stone massage, is the practice of using volvanicly formed stones that have been heated in hot water for use with serveral different massage techniques. Hot stone massage provides more full relaxation to the sore muscles due to the heat that is radiated from the stones as they are touched to the skin. Caution must be used to employ the precise quantity of pressure to the body, too much pressure and you could cause distress to the bones or muscle tissue, too light pressure and you will mearly be adding temperature to the skin and not the muscle (thereby possibly burning your client). Assembling the benefits of hydrotherapy and thermalism with the therapy of stones to the muscles helps to promote a message to relax even the tightest muscles, permitting the therapist to work the muscles deeper. This will permit your client to benefit more from any type of massage. The heat of the basalt stones also opens the pores of the skin where the heat is being applied to let oils and lotions to be absorbed, which can also provide tremendous benefits to the person receiving the treatment, more easily absorbing essential oils if used in the therapy. Hot Stone massage also provides the benefit of increasing blood flow to the areas that are being massaged. The person giving the massage can also greatly benefit from using basalt stones in the treatment, the stones can be allow you to avoid placing pressure on your hands, if the basalt stones are used as the should be. As with other types of therapy, proper form must be used by the person giving the massage to ensure that the person giving the massage doesn?t wear out there arms and hands.
Adding stones to your massage stone set that you find at the ocean or a river adds a nice personal touch but, it is very important for your safety and the safety of your client to make sure that you don?t use stone that will not crack or explode when the stones are heated to temperate for a hot stone massage. It is best to use basalt stone, it will not crack or explode during heating and cooling. This type of stone was formed from volcanic activity. Basalt Stone was created when molten lava in a lava flow from a volcano cooled as it was flowing. This stone has a very fine grain structure due to the fact that the lava was cooled very quickly as if flowed into a river, lake or ocean, producing a stone is very dense that can also be made nice and smooth, perfect for massage. These stones that ended up in rivers or oceans have been worn smooth by many centuries of continuous polishing by the motion and power of water. While a few companies that sell stone have put forth marketing efforts to try and get people to believe that only black basalt stone will hold heat properly for massage therapy, this is simply not true. Basalt stones, by nature, come in a variety of colors from dark grey to red to tan. Even though the colors vary slightly, because the mineral content varies enough for color changes, as long as a stone is a basalt stone it will hold the heat, not matter if it is grey or red or green.
Chris Turley
Author Bio
Chris Turley is the director at TIR Massage Stone, one of the largest massage stone suppliers in the United State. TIR Massage Stone suppies quality hot stones to the massage and spa industries.
