Every month I will feature a massage tool from my tool kit . These are tools that I use myself and find very helpful in the area of chair massage. Oddly enough I was going to start this segment with another tool but two of my chair clients ordered this tool last week, so I had to talk about it. One of the clients actually ordered two rollers.
The Omni Massage Roller is the tool for March. This is a great hand held tool that I use daily for warming-up muscle tissue as well as "smoothing" out an area after trigger point work. The more pressure you use the deeper into the tissue the Omni will go. You can use the the Omni on the back, shoulders, hips, glutes, thighs, legs and the bottom of the feet. Now you can do this all in the massage chair! My clients love this tool !
Another use for the Omni Roller is how effective it is as a diagnostic tool when using it on the back and hips. A client may experience tickle sensations. Now any student of Tony Zayner or myself would know that tickle is one of the stages in the progression of pain. The tickle is very early on the progression chart so healthy muscle tissue is not far away. I like to use it early in a session and then come back toward the end to see if the tickle feeling is still there. If you did your work effectively it wont be.
You can click on the picture to your left for more info.
You gotta have the right f------ tool for the damn job--George Susa (landlord)
Saturday, March 6, 2010
The Tool for March
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Super-Man
Monday, March 1, 2010
Change
Welcome to the new nepa.tism! Today I want to introduce David Palmer. Now I have never met Mr. Palmer myself but he has been an influence on me. You see in 1986 David Palmer introduced the "modern" massage chair. In the picture above you can see him with his very first massage chair, literally a chair in a box. It was quite different from the massage chairs you see today.
Now in the early eighties David Palmer starting work doing massage from a seated position. This was basically massage while the client was sitting on a chair or stool. This in itself was nothing new but innovative if you want to bring massage to the masses. It was this same mindset which got him in the door of Apple Computer in 1984. Now working on Apple employees brought national media attention to chair massage as well as Apple.
Two of my favorite things Apple and Chair Massage. A good combination!
As the eighties had its' ups and downs so do we in 2010. Even David Palmer's company Zubio has fallen because of the economy. (For more info on Zubio click HERE.) What that means is a chance to find a way. Find a way(s) to achieve your goals, work your plans and bring something fresh and useful to others. If you can't find a way, Make One!
David Palmer said: I want to change the world! He did.
"We will either find a way or make one".--Hannibal
