Rachel McCabe Massage Therapy

06/08/2022

This one is absolutely NOT TRUE! Touch is incredibly important to everything for everything we do; from the moment we’re born to the moment we pass. Studies show that babies who are regularly held and touched have increased immune function, start walking and crawling sooner, and cry less. However, this doesn’t stop as we age.

Another fantastic study (which I’ll admit, didn’t sound like much fun) had participants lay in an fMRI machine listening to painful blasts of white noise. Not for me thanks, but I’m glad they did it! The study found that, unsurprisingly, the white noise caused areas associated with stress and threat to activate. However, this was ameliorated by having someone they trusted stroke their arm.

Touch signals to our bodies that we are safe, calms cardiovascular stress, activates our vagus nerve, and causes oxytocin to be released throughout our bodies, to mention just a few things! So, it’s not just for the massage table!

06/03/2021

Social distancing has reminded us all what a crucial role touch plays in our wellbeing, says social and cultural historian Joe Moran

14/02/2021

With lots of us still working from home hers some stretches to help keep you all mobile and keep stiffness at bay. Thanks to Jing x

SHARE this image with your office working clients! Let's get STRETCHING! Love JING.x

14/02/2021

Trust me this one is true. Studies have found that massage therapy is beneficial for insomnia related stress which in turn reduces fatigue and improves the quality of sleep.

Massage promotes the body’s production of serotonin; an essential amino acid that promotes healing provides pain relief and is known to reduce depression and regulate anxiety. Serotonin is also essential for the production of melatonin. Melatonin is often referred to as the sleep hormone and is a central part of the body's circadian rhythm which regulates our sleep-wake cycle.

If you are suffering from insomnia or disturbed sleep then massage therapy could really help you.

A great study on this topic is ‘Recent Advances in Massage Therapy - A Review’, by S.L. Liu, 2015.

13/02/2021

Good easy to follow advise.

In lockdown, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house.

08/12/2020

Some holiday stretches to help get you all loose and limbe this Christmas. X

Amazing stretching & strength exercises to keep you fit and healthy over Xmas! Thank you, Susan Harrison!

19/11/2020

I'm Back, with Covid precautions in place I am now taking bookings for Massage and Reflexology. Consultations are done prior to treatments either online, email or over phone to limit contact time. So if your in pain, discomfort, stressed or just need a bit of quiet 'you' time please get in touch.

23/10/2020

Clearly, experience of severe and repeated trauma can have extreme effects on not just our emotional health but our physical health too. Prolonged or extreme stress has been linked with a host of common illnesses and chronic pain conditions including headaches, back pain, RSI, digestive problems, lo...

09/10/2020

What Does The Vagus Nerve Do? Discover How To Naturally Stimulate The “Communication Superhighway” Linking The Conscious & Unconscious https://buff.ly/2nuLW7q

09/10/2020

Do you know what the Vagus Nerve is and what it does?

THE VAGUS NERVE⠀
A seemingly never-ending branching nerve that connects most of our major organs to our brain 🧠.⠀
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It’s the longest cranial nerve in our body, one for the right side and one for the left. And is largely responsible for the connection for its role as a mediator between thinking and feeling, you know our “gut feeling.”⠀
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The vagus nerve is the “queen” of the parasympathetic nervous system. The “rest and digest” or the nerve. So the more we do things to activate the nerve (like deep ), the most we combat the effects of its opposer, the sympathetic nervous system - the “fight or flight”, rushing around, have to do something, releasing one.⠀
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A few other functions of the vagus nerve, just to name a few:⠀
▪️slows your heart rate and respiration.⠀
▪️lowers blood pressure.⠀
▪️helps with calmness and relaxation.⠀
▪️controls involuntary muscles in the digestive system, therefore, aiding digestion.⠀
▪️taste sensation.⠀
▪️movement function for the muscles in the neck responsible for swallowing and speech.⠀
▪️gut-brain communication.⠀
▪️reduces inflammation.⠀
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Thanks - just beautiful!