| One of the newest in massage treatments, is a dry | | | | PSI. This flexibility allows the hydrotherapy to be |
| hydrotherapy, also referred to as water massage. This | | | | delivered as efficiently as possible, even through a hot |
| treatment is administered through specially designed | | | | or cold pack, which intensifies the quality of the |
| tables, which are completely enclosed, so that the | | | | treatment.As with all massage techniques, water |
| water never touches the patient.It operates by | | | | massage can improve circulation to the skin, blood |
| shooting jets of water up against the underside of the | | | | circulation, and enhance the function of your lymphatic |
| table surface, where a client is laying. A bar moves | | | | system, which clears wastes away from the muscles |
| along the horizontal length of the table, taking the | | | | and out of the body.The very flexibility of water |
| water's impact from one end of the body to the | | | | massage, means a better chance to reach the optimal |
| other.Because dry hydrotherapy utilizes heat, and | | | | level of muscle relaxation in each client, which means |
| employs the same beneficial techniques as a whirlpool, | | | | that further treatments can be administered more |
| it is quickly becoming one of the preferred methods of | | | | easily, and have more lasting effects. When muscles |
| treatment for a wide variety of conditions from injury, | | | | are relaxed, a client can then benefit from the relief of |
| to stress, to chronic illnesses.The heat level can be | | | | pain and a sense of well being that comes from the |
| adjusted to the client's comfort level, as can the impact | | | | extra release of endorphins.Jamie Freeman specializes |
| of the water, which may run at anywhere from 2-32 | | | | in teaching others to provide therapeutic massages. |