In the earlier days Nice was once the haunt of wealthy aristocrats, but these days its population is pretty diverse. It is the regional capital and the gateway to the very famed and beautiful Cte d'Azur, Nice is in very close to fascinating resorts like Cannes (of the Cannes Film festival fame) and Monaco, and still within easy distance of the rustic villages in the provinces.
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A survey of U.S. consumers about their massage-therapy use shows that Americans turn to massage for pain relief.
Fitness Together, a personal-training company with more than 175 franchises, has launched a massage-therapy franchise firm, Elements Therapeutic Massage Corporation.
Low-back pain is rampant in the United States, and creates both a burden on our health-care system and lost productivity. In 2003, 28 percent of adults age 18 years and over reported low-back pain lasting a day or more in the last three-month period, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's report, "Health, United States, 2005."
After more than a decade of effort, and including a dramatic last-hour power play in the state legislature, massage therapists in Massachusetts finally have a state licensure law.
Students in the program will be eligible to test for the Texas massage-therapy license and sit for the National Certification Examination in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.
Fitness Together, a personal-training company with more than 175 franchises, has launched a massage-therapy franchise firm, Elements Therapeutic Massage Corporation.
Facelift massage is a holistic alternative to Botox and plastic surgery, making it a potentially lucrative revenue stream for massage therapists and spas. Americans are increasingly demanding beauty procedures that help them retain youthful features¡ªso it¡¯s no surprise that facelift massage, which firms, lifts and contours skin while toning musculature and increasing circulation, is growing in popularity in both spas and private practices. Several established facelift-massage techniques, including Upledger¡¯s and Belav¨ª¡¯s, are described here.
What job can practically guarantee you a 100-percent satisfied customer? A massage therapist! But before you work the knots out for someone else, you have to attend massage therapy school.