Massage Therapy by Jeff Conschoroski

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The power of touch. Promotes blood circulation and increases the level of oxygen to your tired muscles, stimulates healing, brings calmness and balances the life energy in our body. One of the most obvious benefits to massage therapy is stress relief. Stress can truly affect your life in many negative ways... from ulceras to headaches to sleep deprivation.

Jeff Gonschoroski (Certified Massage Therapist) specializes in SWEDISH, DEEP TISSUE and REFLEXOLOGY. Jeff has the ability to proviede a sensual relaxing massage combined with a variety of techniques in order to relieve stress, tone muscles and improve circulation. A water based cream is used that smoothes without leaving residue on your body or clothes.

DEEP TISSUE: Shorter, slower strokes reaching deeper in the layer of superficial fascia of the muscle. Stimulates blood flow to a deeper level, stimulates healing.

SWEDISH: Long strokes that increase the blood circulation and oxygen to your tired muscles. Promotes relaxation.

REFLEXOLOGY: When pressure techniques are applied to parts of your feet that correspond to a specific part of the body.

LOCATION: 11th and Mass. Ave NW (four blocks off Metro Center subway sation)
RATES: $80 for 1 hour session, $100 for 1.5 hours session, or outcalls starting at $200.
TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT: Call (202) 441-0180 any time. If the phone is not answered, please leave a message and your call will be returned, or you can e-mail me at usajeff@gmail.com

Regimens: Massage Benefits Are More Than Skin Deep

By RONI CARYN RABIN

Published: September 20, 2010

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Does a good massage do more than just relax your muscles? To find out, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recruited 53 healthy adults and randomly assigned 29 of them to a 45-minute session of deep-tissue Swedish massage and the other 24 to a session of light massage.

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All of the subjects were fitted with intravenous catheters so blood samples could be taken immediately before the massage and up to an hour afterward.

To their surprise, the researchers, sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, found that a single session of massage caused biological changes.

Volunteers who received Swedish massage experienced significant decreases in levels of the stress hormone cortisol in blood and saliva, and in arginine vasopressin, a hormone that can lead to increases in cortisol. They also had increases in the number of lymphocytes, white blood cells that are part of the immune system.

Volunteers who had the light massage experienced greater increases in oxytocin, a hormone associated with contentment, than the Swedish massage group, and bigger decreases in adrenal corticotropin hormone, which stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol.

The study was published online in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.