We recently hosted an Open House to celebrate our 10th Anniversary of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork LLC! We had so much fun chatting with everyone, giving away prizes, and providing Posture Assessments and Make Your Own Young Living Bath Salt Soaks! Before the Open House, we had the chance to take some team pictures with Kim McDonald, KM Behind the Lens! Check out the fun pics here!
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March Honoree: Brian Edwards
One way we’re celebrating is to honor you, our clients. Each month we will highlight a 10th Anniversary Honoree(s); a client of ours that has been integral to our success and that represents and fully supports the fabric of everything we believe.
The March 10th Anniversary Honoree(s) is Brian Edwards! Brian Edwards is one of the most dedicated and hardest working men, father, and athlete I know. Quality, compassion, and dedication are just a few of the characteristics he represents and that we value as a team. He is a 40 year old father of five beautiful girls and married to an amazing woman, Jennie Edwards. He tells me that “she never ceases to amaze me!” His girls are 9, 7, 5, 2, and 6 months in age. They also have another little girl in heaven that would be 10 years old.
In his own words, “With owning my own State Farm Insurance business and having five children, life is extremely hectic. As a competitive grappler I have really felt, seen, and fully experienced the benefits of massage therapy. I do not get the opportunity to come see Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork as much as I need to, but when I do, the difference is instantaneous! In my free time, I train for and compete in grappling competitions all over the country. I train at Swamp Fox Jiu Jitsu located at 3426 West Palmetto in Florence, SC.” And man, does he really compete! This guy is fierce! Please note pics below.
We are so humbled to be able to work with and honor Brian Edwards this month! Please help us celebrate our 10th Anniversary by honoring him and take a minute to watch his The Body Works! LLC Celebrity Debut video, too.
Help us Celebrate our 10th Anniversary!
We have some exciting news to share with you! It is our 10th Business Anniversary this year and we are really going to celebrate. Will you help celebrate with us?
We will be hosting all sorts of events and giving away a lot of gifts to the community that has served us so well. We are so blessed and thankful for the chance to improve the health and well-being of our clients over the past 10 years. We look forward to another 10!
Stay tuned here, on our Web pages, and our Facebook group pages for more info.
www.TheBodyWorks.US
www.TMandB.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TMandB/ — at Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, LLC.
De-stress with FREE chair massage and meet Stacy!
We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Stacy Gainey to our team at Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, LLC. Stacy will be primarily working out of our Hartsville office. We are excited to have her on board! She is a graduate of our local FDTC Clinical Massage Therapy program. She has a passion to help people and chooses to do so through the great benefits of therapeutic massage. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her family and pets, and traveling.
New Hartsville Office Hours: Monday through Saturday from 9am – 6 pm.
Are you a Fitness World Gym Member? All Fitness World Gym members receive a 15% discount on all services at the Hartsville office. De-stress this January with FREE chair massage at the Hartsville office and just for stopping by you’ll be entered into a drawing for a therapeutic massage!
- Mondays, Jan. 12 and 19 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
- Thursdays, Jan. 15, 22 and 29 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
- Saturdays, Jan. 17, 24 and 31st from 9:30am – 11:30am
It’s no surprise! Fitness World Gym’s member discount starts now!
Now a giraffe photo bombing your picture, THAT would be a surprise!
But giving all Fitness World Gym (FWG) members a discount at the Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Hartsville office, that is a blessing! All FWG members booking a massage at the Hartsville office receive 15% off any available service – any day, any week and any year! It is that simple. You must have a current membership and just show your FWG card to the licensed massage therapist. We know how vital exercise is to your health and how much therapeutic massage can assist you in your workout and health goals. This discount may not to be combined with any other coupon or offer. Not transferable to another person; massage recipient must be a a FWG member.
FWG Member Rates:
30 minutes: $34
45 minutes: $51.00
60 minutes: $59.50
90 minutes: $89.25
120 minutes: $119
Non-Member Rates:
30 minutes: $40
45 minutes: $60
60 minutes: $70
90 minutes: $105
120 minutes: $140
Young Living Essential Oils
We are officially part of the Young Living Essential Oil family and we love it so far. They make is so easy to understand and have some very beneficial blends, like Thieves, Peace & Calming and Valor. I love this way of helping my family’s and clients’ health naturally. We have been diffusing Peace and Calming and the Christmas blends in the office and my own home. Wonderful!
Recent researchers have shown that inhalation of lavender decreases anxiety (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25389481) and massage with aromatherapy decreased women cancer patients’ treatment symptoms and improved quality of life (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25157942). This is the stuff we get geeked about!
More information to come. Need Holiday gift ideas? Try the website below. Let us know if you have questions.
December Special: Free Aromatherapy Upgrade and Gift!
For the month of December, we would like to give a gift of health to you. Anyone that books a 60 minute session or more will receive a aromatherapy upgrade and a take-home aromatherapy roll-on bottle as gifts from us. You don’t need to do anything special as we will help you choose the best aromatherapy blend for your session. You may choose a different aromatherapy blend with each session; only one roll-on bottle per person.
We use Young Living Essential Oils in our sessions to help you achieve the health results you desire. Aromatherapy has been shown to help alleviate stress, breathing and stomach troubles, allergy symptoms, muscular pain and more. During your session, we will take a couple of minutes for you to choose your essential oil(s), use them for the massage and provide you that blend to take home in your own roller bottle.
To learn more about aromatherapy and essential oils, visit our website.
Massage Therapy for Inflammation After Exercise!
Massage Therapy for Inflammation After Exercise!
The Case for Massage Post-Exercise
Longer and warmer days offer the perfect backdrop to dust off the running shoes and embark on a new fitness goal. One unwanted side effect is increased muscle soreness. The good news is that integrating massage therapy into your health and wellness routine can help alleviate some discomfort.
In fact, research indicates that massage therapy reduces inflammation of skeletal muscle acutely damaged through exercise. The study, conducted by the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and McMaster University in Ontario, provides evidence for the benefits of massage therapy for those with musculoskeletal injuries and potentially for those with inflammatory disease, according to the lead author of the research.
- The study found evidence at the cellular level that massage therapy may affect inflammation in a way similar to anti-inflammatory medications.
- The researchers “found that massage activated the mechanotransduction signaling pathways focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and extracellular signal–regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2), potentiated mitochondrial biogenesis signaling [nuclear peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α)], and mitigated the rise in nuclear factor κB (NFκB) (p65) nuclear accumulation caused by exercise-induced muscle trauma.”1
Get the full story in AMTA’s Research Roundup »
Low-Back Pain Sufferers: Massage Therapy Can Help!
Low-Back Pain Sufferers: Massage Therapy Can Help!
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low-back pain, the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work.1
Massage is Effective for Low-Back Pain.
More and more research shows that massage therapy can be effective for low-back pain, including this recent study published in the Scientific World Journal:
Researchers concluded massage had a positive effect on patients with chronic low-back pain and propose that the use of massage causes fast therapeutic results and that, in practice, it could help reduce the use of anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of chronic low-back pain. Read more »
More on Massage Therapy & Low-Back Pain
Massage Consumer Fact Sheet!
Massage Therapy for Regular Health Maintenance:
75% of individuals surveyed claim their primary reason for receiving a massage in the past 12 months was medical (43%) and stress (32%) related, according to the 17th annual consumer survey, sponsored by the American Massage Therapy Association® (AMTA®). Medical reasons include pain relief, soreness, stiffness or spasms, injury recovery, migraines, prevention, and general well-being.
- 88% view massage as beneficial to overall health and wellness.
- 88% believe massage can be effective in reducing pain; with 24% saying they have used massage therapy for pain relief.
- The overall mean (excluding none) was 4.1 massages for those receiving massage in the past 12 months. Those whose primary reason for getting massage was medical got a mean of 5.7 massages.
Americans’ Reasons for Getting Massages are Changing: More people are turning to massage therapy to assist with medical conditions.
- As few as 34% of those surveyed believe massage therapy is only a form of pampering.
- In the previous 12 months, 17% of respondents received a massage at a spa compared to 19 percent in 2012. This decline, and the presence of chiropractor’s offices, health clubs and physician’s offices/medical clinics on the list of locations where people receive massage, indicates consumers identify massage as an important component of overall health and wellness.
- 56% of people received a massage for one or more of the following reasons: soreness, stiffness or spasms, to relieve or manage stress, for prevention or to improve quality of life, injury recovery or rehabilitation, to keep fit or health/maintain wellness, or to control headaches or migraines.
- 39% indicated that medical benefits would be their primary motivation for having a massage.
Health Care Providers Recommending Massage as a Viable Form of Treatment: Health care providers and doctors are more commonly viewing massage therapy as a legitimate option to address health concerns.
- 48% of respondents indicated that they were encouraged by their doctor to receive a massage.
- 53% of respondents said their physician has recommended they get a massage.