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This Father’s Day: Massage for Your “Manly Man”
Sports or Deep Tissue Massage Gift Certificates for the Man in Your Life
With Father’s Day just around the corner, women and kids are trying to figure out what to give that special someone in their life. One Father’s Day gift idea that doesn’t seem to occur to many people is …

Subscribe to The Massage Message e-newsletter now through Father’s Day and be entered to win a free gift certificate for a 1-hour massage!

The drawing will take place on Father’s Day.

(You’ll see the subscribe form in the right-hand column about half or two thirds of the way down the page…)

If you sign up for The Massage Message between now and then, your name will be written down on a slip of paper, put in a hat with all the other names, and we’ll pick one. Then you’ll receive your gift certificate! And if you’re not local, I’ll either get you a certificate to go see a colleague of mine in another city (I’m connected… ) or one from SpaFinder! Your choice.

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News

Workout Recovery

Lactic Acid Will Be Sorely Missed

New York Times

WHILE joggers, weightlifters, recreational softball players and other fitness enthusiasts will surely be delighted to hear that exercise science now sees lactic acid as a force of good and not evil, the fact remains that people are sore.

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Sports or Deep Tissue Massage Gift Certificates for the Man in Your Life: With Father’s Day just around the corner, women are trying to figure out what to give that special someone in their life. One Father’s Day gift idea that doesn’t seem to occur to many people is a gift certificate for a massage. How about getting him a massage gift certificate this Father’s Day? …And I don’t mean for those metrosexual guys you know. They’re probably already booking massage sessions regularly. No, I mean for that tough, “manly man”, …Here are some tips for turning your hunk into a massage junkie:

1. Don’t call it “a massage.” Call it “a bodywork session.”
2. Don’t give him a gift certificate from a spa.
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Did you know that there’s actually an official Baby Massage Day? Well, neither did I, but apparently there is and it’s April 11th!

And I’ve heard that massaging infants helps them sleep better. Sleep is everything to parents with infants, so baby will be happy and so will you.

Here’s an excerpt from the article Getting in Touch with Baby on LiaSuzuki.com, which originally appeared on MSNBC:

Parents turning to ancient practice of infant massage

Strollers are double-parked in the hall outside, and 16 moms, one dad and 17 babies have packed a playroom at the 14th Street Y in New York City

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What!?!? Pay good money to sit in a spa and get bitten by little fish!?!?!?

Yes.

But not in Florida. Not anymore.

That’s right. Fish pedicures, a treatment where tiny carp nibble away the calloused, dead tissue from clients’ feet, have now been banned in Florida. According to Spa-News, the special pedicures were very popular. One spa AJ’s Salon and Spa, reported having done 200 fish pedicures per week at $35 each.

Sprains, tendonitis, broken bones… What comes to mind first when you hear these words? Football? Rugby? Mixed martial arts? Ballet? Wait. “Ballet”?!?! Yep.

The article Sprains and tendonitis: Dancer injuries and treatments by Lindsay Zier-Vogel introduces us to Paul Papoutsakis, the company athletic therapist for the National Ballet of Canada. As company athletic therapist, Papoutsakis “regularly treats acute injuries, like twisted ankles and broken bones, and says the pain threshold of dancers is probably the highest of all other athletes.”, the article informs us.