Complientary Therapies can calm, stimulate, disinfect, assist in reducing inflammation, assist in relieving rheumatic pain, deodorise, repell fleas, assist in the treatment of skin irritations, colds, canker, and mange. The list is extensive. This in fact is a form of massage. The therapeutic effect of massage is immense. It treats the whole being unlike so much of our traditional and conventional medicine.
Massage has a positive effect upon our physical, psychological and emotional state.
It is the manipulation of the soft tissues of the body by movements of the hands such as stroking, rubbing, kneading, pressing, rolling, and tapping. It is not a manipulation of the bones or joints. Massage can relieve some kinds of pain by relaxing the muscles and allowing improved circulation of both the blood and lymphatic system. It increases muscle tone and helps break down the body's products resulting from injury or trauma, thus causing pain. This means that there is an improved oxygen flow to, and a more effective process of waste elimination from the constricted area.