Shockingly grotesque yet amazing wonderful: the benefits of Gua Sha massage

 A busy schedule, cold weather, recent stressful events, and a pillow desperately in need of replacement caused a crick in my neck that has been nagging at me for weeks. This morning I had a moment to finally take care of the problem and, in less than five minutes, I regained full range of motion and was completely free of pain using gua sha massage, which is a simple, hands-on technique that has been used in traditional Asian medicine for centuries. . The technique is painless, but it is definitely not pretty. This is what I looked... [Read more...]