The Elemental Nature Massage restores a healthy balance through aromatherapy and Swedish massage techniques.

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All hires attend a four-to-six-week training course in London in which they learn to incorporate Thai, Indian, Swedish and other massage techniques, and they get advice on how to survive the shipboard life.

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In a hospital room, she would use "yoga techniques, " massage, a "birth ball, " and music as pain management techniques.

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Another common type of massage, so-called deep tissue, tends to be more targeted to problem muscles and includes techniques such as acupressure, trigger-point work (which focuses on little knots of muscle) and "deep transverse friction" where the therapist moves back and forth over muscle fibers to break up scar tissue.

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