Welcome to my Website!
My name is Esther Greenberg, Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. I run Esther's Essential Massage and Bodywork for Women, in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. I am passionate about helping people through massage and touch and I provide a custom massage each and every time you visit me!
I will always treat you with respect, kindness and great care. You will feel safe and comfortable before, during and after your
session. Your massage will be "personalized" to meet your specific
needs. I will give you as much time as you need and work with your
body.
I have lots of information about massage, my services and other important health related topics for you to read, so please take a couple of minutes of your busy schedule and check out my services, rates, specials and testimonials.
So contact me today and start "investing" in your health, reduce your stress, boost your immune system, so you can lead a better, happier, healthier life!!
My e-mail address is: esther.greenberg@yahoo.com. My phone number is: 856-577-7229.
Hope to see you soon!
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Massage Modalities I Can Provide For You:
There are many different types of massage modalities you can choose from when you come to see me at Esther's Essential Massage and Bodywork for Women. When you call for your appointment, I will help you decide what’s right for you. You’ll be able to choose from:
- Swedish Massage
- Deep Tissue/Deep Pressure Massage
- Trigger Point Therapy
- Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)
- Myofascial Release
- Reflexology
- Stretching/Thai movements
- Elderly Massage
- Hot Stone Therapy
- Maternity Massage
- Reiki
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What Are Some Of The Benefits of Massage:
- Relieves stress and anxiety
- Helps to reduce neck pain, back pain and pain caused by "trigger points" or knots
- Encourages relaxation
- Strengthens/Boosts the immune system
- Improves circulation and blood flow
- Lowers blood pressure
- Helps improve sleep patterns
- Eliminates waste products through the lymphatic and circulatory system, combating fatigue
- Relaxes muscles and improves muscle tone
- Improves flexibility and range of motion
- Reduces stiffness
- Improves pulmonary function
- Relieves tension related to headaches
- Stimulation of the lymphatic system to flush away
cellular waste
- Enhances post-operative rehabilitation
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Recent scientific research
also proves that massage therapy increases immune function, decreases
stress levels and reduces recovery time in many medical conditions
including:
- Chronic Neck and Back Pain
- Headaches and Migraines
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Allergies
- Depression, Anxiety and Insomnia
- Numbness, Cramping and Tingling
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Asthma and Bronchitis
- Sciatica
- Circulatory Problems
- Sports Injuries or other injuries such as Whiplash
- Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
Massage Boosts Your Immune System, New Study Finds.
RODALE NEWS, PA—The benefits of massage are immediately obvious to
anyone who's had one. A massage session calms you down, eases your anxieties,
and even helps you sleep at night. Now a new study, funded by
the government's National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine,
finds that those sessions may help you ward off diseases, too.
WHAT IT MEANS: A single massage could help boost your immune
system and help you better cope with stress, even if you're not sick or stressed
out. "I'm really intrigued by our findings," says Mark Hyman Rapaport, MD,
professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral
neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who adds that he was an
"incredible skeptic" about the benefits of massage therapy before doing this
study. "I always wondered, what does it do that so many people claim to feel
better afterwards?" he says. "We're finding that biological changes do occur as
a result of even a single session of massage, and that these changes may benefit
even a healthy individual."
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Massage Eases Tension Headaches
This
not-so-surprising news comes from Spain's University of Granada, where
researchers found that a 30-minute massage could relieve tension
headaches, as well as reduce associated stress and anxiety. The type of
massage tested by the Spanish investigators targeted cervical trigger
points, which are believed to be one of the main contributors to tension
headaches.
The trigger point massage apparently works by improving
autonomic nervous system regulation, the researchers said. Within 24
hours of the massage, patients reported significant relief from headache
pain, less stress and reduced anxiety. The research team suggested that
massage might directly reduce pain caused by trigger points, which
would explain both the physical and psychological improvements seen.
Previous studies have found that massage can relieve chronic back pain,
lessen the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, reduce
headache frequency, relieve arthritis pain, reduce blood pressure, and
improve immune function among other benefits. Overall, massage has
proven efficacy for reducing pain, anxiety, stress, and depression in
patients with a wide range of medical problems.
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Weight Loss Benefits of Massage:
There is no question that having a massage makes you feel great. Even having
a deep-tissue, sports massage makes you feel wonderful afterwards. Massage can
relieve stress, help you recover from hard physical activity or injury and even
reduce anxiety, but can it help you to achieve your weight loss goals?
Research shows that massage can have a positive effect on your
muscle-building capabilities and fitness levels, which in turn increases your
capacity to control or loose weight.
Healthy strong muscles burn calories and give you the freedom to participate
in all sorts of sports and activities that can help you burn excess calories and
improve your overall fitness and well-being.
Massage has the following benefits that can directly influence your ability
to control or loose weight:
1. Massage has been shown to improve circulation and the supply of nutrition
to the muscles. Massage increases the interchange of vital substances between
the blood and tissue cells, which increases tissue metabolism. After muscles are
exercised, vital nutrients must be supplied to them so that they can recover and
rebuild themselves. Massage maximizes the supply of these nutrients and oxygen
though increased blood flow, which helps the muscles to grow and burn more
calories as a result.
2. Massage improves your muscles' range of motion and their flexibility. This
allows them to maintain maximum power and performance while active, and burn the
maximum number of calories in the process.
Improved range of motion and flexibility also reduces muscle soreness during
periods of recovery and muscle repair.
Having a wide range of motion and maximum muscle flexibility also reduces the
danger of experiencing injuries during exercise which can severely limit
activity, exercise and weight loss progress.
3. Massage helps to shorten the recovery time needed between your workouts.
Waste products such as lactic and carbonic acid build up in muscles during and
after exercise. Increased circulation to these muscles helps to eliminate toxic
debris buildup caused by these waste products and in doing so shorten recovery
time.
Shortened recovery time means you can safely have more workouts over a given
period of time, which in turn means that you have the opportunity to burn more
total calories in your effort to achieve your individual weight loss goals.
4. Massage can also help reduce the chance of you over-training. Massage has
a relaxing effect on the muscles and a sedative effect on the nervous system. By
helping you to rest, which is a very important element of any exercise program,
massage can reduce the likelihood of you experiencing over-training syndrome,
which is known to limit your ability to build strong healthy muscles and
therefore loose weight with maximum efficiency.
5. In addition to all of the above, massage may directly aid in fat loss.
According to some research studies, massage is thought to be able to burst the
fat capsule in subcutaneous tissue so that the fat exudes and becomes absorbed.
In this way, combined with proper nutrition and exercise, massage may actually
help in weight loss.
So there you have it. Massage has a lot of benefits that can indirectly and
possibly even directly aid you in achieving your weight loss goals.
Regular massage is just as important a component as regular workouts and
correct nutrition in any comprehensive fitness and weight loss program, which is
great news for those of us who thought that exercising and loosing weight was
all hard work! Remember, weight loss is all about leading a balanced lifestyle
and massage is an essential part of any balanced lifestyle.
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Esther's Essential Massage and Bodywork for Women is fully insured.
Member ABMP.
