Making A Massage Therapist Portsmouth NH Decision

By Leslie Griffith

Consumers quickly discover that keeping up with their daily lives in a productive manner can be quite challenging to weigh in on various levels. Many consumers discover that their increased pressures and stresses are much more challenging to balance on a daily basis which is typically what creates the feeling of anxiety and overall unhealthiness. When making a massage therapist Portsmouth NH selection consumers are offered the chance to make sure their recuperation needs are successfully managed.

A massage therapist offers the soothing rubbing of the muscles and tendons in the body to increase circulation and release tension. Consumers are usually interested in this professional guidance when attempting to make sure their recuperation needs are maintained by a professional and to appreciate the physical and mental benefits of massage. Choices made from available professionals are performed with a great deal of caution.

People of Portsmouth NH that are focused on this particular option have a vast assortment of professionals to consider. Attempting to make a choice from such a competitive base of options is much more challenging to complete than many people realize. The right choice is usually quite easy to make when several factors are carefully focused on.

Consumer reviews are some of the most helpful forms of insight that people could focus on when making this decision. Consumer reviews are filled with details offered from former clients that are able to create details about all that is offered and why the provider should generate interest from others. The highest rated professionals are generally the ones that consumers focus on initially during their hiring decision making efforts.

Consumers area also urged to make sure they fully understand what kinds of therapies are actually made available to them. The entire industry of massage is littered with techniques and variations that are all incredibly varied in what they offer and how effective they are in actually allowing consumers the opportunity to fully relax. Researching all options and choosing the professional that offers the most appropriate solutions is helpful in making sure their most effective recuperation is considered.

Gender considerations are also a major focus that consumers have when making their choice. Many people feel much more comfortable with being able to receive a session from a person that is of a specific gender due to the intimate nature of completion. Most listings are clearly delineated with this information which can be useful in making a more consolidated choice.

The convenience offered from the professional should also receive attention when making this selection. Attempting to commute long distances and rearrange basic life activities in order to receive a session is usually counter-productive to any recuperation efforts one is actually interested in. Mobile sessions and flexible time frames are helpful focus in on when making the right choice.

When making a massage therapist Portsmouth NH selection consumers are additionally focused on pricing. Professionals usually charge their clients based on the duration of the session and category of therapy they are interested in receiving. Concentrating on the lowest prices that are charged for longest sessions is generally what creates the best deal.

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Making Yoga Accessible

by Nina

I like to think that Baxter and I have a pretty good idea of the range of physical abilities that yoga practitioners have in the real world. We’ve seen some pretty fancy stuff in person, such as crazy arm balances and impossible-looking backbends. But we also know that that the average person, especially the average middle-aged or older person, isn’t able to do the fancy stuff and sometimes even the classic stuff, such as Triangle pose (Trikonasana) with the bottom hand on the floor. In fact, even Baxter uses a block in that pose (and see how happy he looks!).

And because our blog is pragmatic, rather than inspirational or aspirational, we are committed to making sure the poses and sequences we describe are actually accessible to most people, if not all. (The exception would be some of our challenging sequences, such as the Challenging Agility Practice.) This is why recently Baxter and I have been working together on choosing a basic set of essential yoga asanas (you’ve been seeing some of those in our recent Featured Pose posts) with four different versions for each pose. 

The first version is always the classic version (done without props) of the pose. Then we provide three other more accessible versions. Sometimes the accessible versions use props, which help make the pose safer, more comfortable, or just plain doable for people (see 7 Reasons Why You Should Love Yoga Props). For example, this version of Upward Plank pose (Purvottanasana) with chair makes the pose accessible to people who can’t do the classic version without major straining or discomfort.

Other times, when a prop can’t really help, we simply change up the pose. An example of this is Side Plank pose (Vasithasana). In our post Featured Pose: Side Plank Pose, the first two variations of the classic pose, don’t use props but instead a slightly different shape to the pose (the first with a different foot position and the second with a different arm position): 

The final version reorients the pose completely, so you’re standing upright instead of balancing on the edge of your feet. 

Now you might be wondering why, if we’re so committed to being “accessible,” we don’t include chair versions of every single pose, such as Side Plank pose, so that people who can’t stand unaided, such as seniors and disabilities, can do all the poses. We do think that the chair versions of standing poses are truly wonderful and not necessarily for wimps (see In Praise of Chair Yoga). Here’s a good example of Warrior 2 done in a chair by the great teacher Eric Small:

Although in the future, we will include chair versions of some of the classic standing poses, we have decided not to include chair variations of every single pose because our blog is aimed at a different audience. Our intended audience is both middle aged and older people who want to use their yoga practice to foster healthy aging (see What is Healthy Aging, Anyway?). So we assume that you (or your students) can stand unaided, can get up and down from the floor, and are relatively healthy or are in recovery from illness. 

This is why even though many of our poses and practices can be used by people who cannot stand unaided and need to practice in chairs or wheelchairs (office yoga poses and some chair poses, breath practices, meditation practices, yoga philosophy), we don’t have specific instructions for these groups. Of course, we do think that yoga can provide great benefits to those populations, but that’s just not our target audience. But rest assured that are many great resources out there for these groups, whether that is Sam Dworkis’ book Recovery Yoga, Eric Small’s book on Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis (which has great photographs of chair and wheelchair yoga), or Timothy McCall’s Yoga As Medicine (which includes some excellent poses for people who cannot stand unaided). 

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Part 3 The Limits of Research in Making a Decision about Medication

It's 2002, and the psychiatrist who put me on his waiting list finally called to schedule an appointment. I sat in a leather chair, feeling like a willow trembling with the slightest breeze. He was a soft spoken man in his 50's, and he paused after I spoke as if to absorb what I said before responding. He concurred that I had a diagnosis of OCD, and felt medication could help me, and that perhaps after a year or so, my mind would "reset" itself and I would be able to taper off.

He proposed Celexa because it was new and not supposed to have sexual side effects. OCD thinking had seriously stunted my ability to approach anything near intimacy with my husband, and we had just started making some progress because of working my therapist, who I will call Molly. I was terrified of sexual side effects, and this was a major obstacle to my taking medication. I'd read numerous articles on the subject from the medical literature, plus enough posts on internet bulletin boards to fuel up my obsessing to the flammable point.

His assurance to me was that if I did have sexual side effects, he would put me on another drug, Wellbutrin, and this would correct the problem. As much as I liked this doctor, his solution was like something from a farce. Take one woman who is very afraid of taking medication, and tell her that a drug will solve any problems created by the first drug. . .

But I still knew that I couldn't go on the way I had been, with rituals consuming a lot of my time and energy. I told him I would need to think about it. I believe I did something actual thinking at the time. This is an important distinction. Obsessing and compulsively looking up medical articles is not the same thing as thinking about something, or problem-solving.

I'd read enough to know that some people were helped by SSRI antidepressants, and that the only way to know if they would help me was to try one. This is incredibly difficult for someone who hoards information to accept, that some things have to be experienced rather than researched, that sometimes you need to make a decision, and you will never have enough information to make a perfect decision. But I was on my way to making a decision.

Related Posts:
Part 1: OCD and Medication Decisions
Part 2: Starting Medication While Struggling
Part 4: My First Prescription for SSRI's
Part5: Feeling in the Jaw: Side effects
Part 6: Being on Medication & OCD Weeping
Part 7: Wanting to Get off my Medication
Part 7.5: Built on Sinking Sand: OCD and Health Anxiety