How to Do a Warm-Up Self Massage

Massage therapy is a practice with a multiplicity of benefits. Whether it’s a quick rubdown or a full-body treatment, the human touch has practical applications for promoting both physical and emotional well-being. The basic idea behind massage is the use of motion, pressure, tension, and vibration on certain areas of the body, localized around muscles or joints in pain or under stress. This allows a release of tension and a return to a homeostatic condition. Therefore, massage is very important for general stress relief, pain management, encouraging physical and emotional healing, or improving circulation.

In this free instructional video series, our expert will show you how to give yourself a wonderful and relaxing massage in the comfort of your own home. Treat sore feet and heels after a hard day at work, use stones and other tricks to relax muscles and use self-massage methods and techniques to treat everyday problems like headaches and sinus pain and pressure.

"Hi! I'm Angela on behalf of expertvillage.com and right now I'm going to show you a technique for self massage and this specific exercise you should do when you wake up to exercise and warm up the muscles and stimulate the blood stream as well as calming down at the end the night before you go to bed. It is a very simple exercise just with your fist you want to start from the bottom and then move up. And just lightly go like this to all your muscles and slowly work your way up. Then you could cross, work you torso, do it to the other side and you could even do it to your arms. This strengthen the muscles and warms them up for the day and it is basically the first massage you want to do and the last one hat you want to do. That is one of the beginning steps for self massage."