The porcupine ball has hundreds of sensory nodules. When when rolled along the body they provide a kneading effect resulting in deep muscle release and increased blood flow to the affected area to promote healing. The Porcupine Massage Ball is small enough to take with you and use anywhere. Keep one at home, another at work and another in your gym bag. Easy and fun to use on yourself or a partner.

Health and Beauty:  Great for tired feet and hands., Relaxing, energizing, and stimulating!, Increases blood flow to promote healing., Small enough to take with you anywhere., Makes entire body feel good.
Company: Body Back Company 
List Price: $9.95
Amazon Price: $6.95

SCAT Acupressure Motion-Aid W/Magnets Easy to use professional design with 900 gauss magnets. The Pc-6 point on the wrist ("Ney Guan" or "Inner Gate") is well known by all Oriental practitioners. The combination of pressure and a magnet, when applied to this point, creates synergism and aids motion sickness and nausea. Ney Guan is now enjoyed world wide by sea and land travelers, active sportsmen, and mothers-to-be. Adjustable and reusable, one size fits all, 10" long x 0.8" wide wrist band uses a Velcro type strap closure. Pressure is applied with the use of a polished, 0.25"x0.55" diameter hemisphere magnet which is permanently bonded to the band. Sold as a pair. Includes instructions.

Health and Beauty:  Magnetic Wrist Straps for Motion Sickness and Nausea, Affordable, Helps stimulate acupoints in wrist, One size fits all
Company: AME 
List Price: $17.00
Amazon Price: $7.95

Enameled metal exercise balls to rotate in your hand for coordination and also to hit the pressure points on your hand that correlate to your major organs in your body. The enameled metal balls are 1 1/2 inches in diameter and come boxed in a set of 2. One of the balls has a Chinese Phoenix Bird on it and the other has a Dragon on a beautiful enameled blue background. The exersize balls make a slight jingle noise while you rotate them in your hands! Instructions are also include in your set. ****Outer box colors may vary.

Health and Beauty:  Great for flexibility, Hits pressure points in your hand, A fun way to gain coordination, Check out our other items on Amazon, too!, Nice Chinese Phoenix Bird and Dragon design
Company: House of Rice 
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Amazon Price: $6.50

A perfect gift for a friend who could use an extra hand! Our back scratcher can reach areas one otherwise couldn't to provide instant relief. One end is shaped like a hand, while the other has large rollers to provide a therapeutic and soothing massage. Bamboo.

Health and Beauty:  Draw letters and words on your friend's back while they struggle to quess your secret message., Make long lingering strokes over your friend's skin, following the contours of their body., A perfect gift for a friend who could use an extra hand! Our back scratcher can reach areas one otherwise couldn't to provide instant relief., One end is shaped like a hand, while the other has large rollers to provide a therapeutic and soothing massage. Bamboo., BAMBOO BACK SCRATCHER SIZE AND STYLES MAY VARY.
Company: Back Scratchers 
List Price: $9.99
Amazon Price: $6.99

"Great for release. I love this product. It's perfect for rolling down the back to get to pressure points. It really gets some of those tight muscles to relax and let go." - Rachael Phalanges The Back Roller is an excellent device for massaging the spinal column. This is the descendent of the original Ma Roller which was developed over 30 years ago. The new rubber rings stabilize the rolling action making it easier to control your movements. By giving a gentle stretch to the spine and a deep massage to the antigravity muscles in the back, the Backroller stimulates three fundamental lines of energy known to every ancient culture around the world. These three lines represent the very core of the man - both conscious and unconscious functions.

Health and Beauty:  The best in natural back care., Perfect for a great back stretch and deep massage., Relieve spasms, tight muscles, trigger points and pressure points., Made of natural wood., Recommended by doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists and massage therapists.
Company: Body Back Company 
List Price: $39.95
Amazon Price: $29.95

A perfect gift for a friend who could use an extra hand! Our back scratcher can reach areas one otherwise couldn't to provide instant relief. One end is shaped like a hand, while the other has large rollers to provide a therapeutic and soothing massage. EXTENDS UP TO 20 INCHES.

Health and Beauty:  Draw letters and words on your friend's back while they struggle to quess your secret message., Make long lingering strokes over your friend's skin, following the contours of their body., A perfect gift for a friend who could use an extra hand! Our back scratcher can reach areas one otherwise couldn't to provide instant relief., EXTENDS UP TO 20 INCHES.
Company: Back Scratchers 
List Price: $11.99
Amazon Price: $4.99

Enjoy the luxury and soothing benefits of a professional-quality foot and calf massage right in your own home. This massager massages away tension and fatigue from your feet, calves and ankles. Spend a few minutes with this massager, and your whole body will feel more relaxed and limber all day. This foot and calf massager hits all the right spots. 1. An entirely new massager specifically designed to massage your feet, ankles and calves all at the same time. 2. 4 kneading discs in one appliance massage your feet, ankles and calves. 3. Flexible kneading discs create a professional massage experience. 4. Strong kneading action penetrates deeply into the muscles of your feet, ankles and calves. 5. In addition, a vibration board effectively massages the soles and muscles of your feet. 6. Pressure nodes located under your feet stimulate the reflex points on the soles of your feet. 7. Personal preference of 3 kneading massage programs and 3 vibration modes. 8. The synergetic combination of kneading and vibratory actions gives you a most relaxing and revitalizing massage experience, while achieving a beneficial reflexology and beautifying effect. 9. Strategically located buttons on the switch panel allow you to control the massage function easily. 10. Auto shut-off feature activates after the massager has been in use for 15 minutes. A pair of detachable fabric covers (with zipper) allow for cleaning to maintain good hygiene. 11. LCD display, green backlight *This is the latest model with the LCD screen upgrade. Please notice some models from other sellers do not have this feature. Product Details: Voltage: AC110V/120V Power Consumption: 90 watts Washable, easy to remove fabric cover UL-Listed Conditions: Brand new in nicely packed double boxes, never used (not refurbished) Warranty: We offer a 90 days limited warranty for any defects. This should be a simple and reliable maintenance free machine.

Health and Beauty:  Feel like youve been to the spaevery daywith the Legs Beautician foot and calf digital LCD screen massager., The foot and calf massager features invigorating, kneading disks that squeeze and deeply penetrate leg muscles., Soothing vibration helps improve circulation and energize muscles., Pressure nodes located under the soles of your feet stimulate the vital reflexology pressure points., A similar foot and calf massager is selling for $399 at Brookstone.com
Company: Leg Beautifician 
List Price: $399.00
Amazon Price: $199.00

Health and Beauty:  Ingredients: Arnica montana (leopard's bane)-30C, bellis perennis (daisy)-30C, chamomilla (wild chamomile)-30C, lpecacuanha (lpecac)-30C and lycopodium (clubmoss)-30C., 32 tablets enough for 40 hours of flight time, Homeopathic, Helps alleviate body stress, Corrects disruptions to the body's clock rhythym
Company: Lewis N. Clark 
List Price: $11.49
Amazon Price: $11.49

"The Best Back Scratcher Ever Invented!" Discover the secret to scratch that itch, that 1000's of satisfied users already have. Our clients continue to tell us that this is one of the best back scratchers and most unique back scratchers they have ever found. This is not a wooden back scratcher, it is a solid, flexible back scratcher with a one year guarantee. Great stocking stuffer ideas for men and women or as a special treat for yourself. The most economical and satisfying relief for my back itch ever! MaxScratch is superior to all other back scratchers because there are over 170 FlexSpikes that contact the skin on every pass. Without rubbing hard, this process creates an insensitivity in the nerve endings which allows for hours of relief from the itch.

Health and Beauty:  A perfect gift for a friend who could use an extra hand! Our back scratcher can reach areas one otherwise couldn't to provide instant relief., Comes with a gorgeous bag to ensure safe storage for your new back scratcher.
Company: Back Scratchers 
List Price: 
Amazon Price: $9.95

Health and Beauty: 
Company: Healthcare  (2005-07-20)
List Price: $299.95
Amazon Price: $167.95

Featuring more than 250 photographs and 50 anatomical drawings, Deep Tissue Massage is the standard guide to the essentials of touch, biomechanics, and positioning options for a multitude of strategies to treat all major conditions encountered in a bodywork practice.

The book is divided into three sections. “Fundamentals” covers basic skills of palpation, explaining the deeper layers of the body and presenting detailed instruction on working with these layers to release tension. This section gives clear information on the proper use of knuckles, fist, forearms, and elbows in preventing injury to the therapist. “Strategies” offers more precise protocols and treatment plans for the entire body with emphasis on client positioning options to stretch muscles rather than just kneading tissues. “Caveats” details areas in which the practitioner needs to exercise caution.

Deep Tissue Massage presents a wealth of information in a way the therapist can immediately utilize. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a preface to the new edition, a foreword, an index, a Suggested Reading list, and extended sections on integrating deep-tissue massage into bodywork practice and the psychology of treating injuries.

Author: Art Riggs
Paperback:  288 pages
Company: North Atlantic Books  (2007-06-05) (2007-06-05)
ISBN: 1556436505
List Price: $29.95
Amazon Price: $17.82
Used Price: $19.34

With your hands you have potential to relieve everyday aches, pains and ailments without taking drugs, to improve your health, and to increase your vitality. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin that, in turn, activate the body's natural self-healing processes. With this book, it is a skill you can learn now--and use in your own home.

In Acupressure's Potent Points, Michael Reed Gach, founder and director of the Acupressure Institute of America, reveals simple techniques that enable you to relieve headaches, arthritis, colds and flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, hot flashes, depression, and more--using the power and sensitivity of your own hands.

This practical guide covers more than forty ailments and symptoms, from allergies to wrist pain, providing pressure-point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function. Acupressure complements conventional medical care, and enables you to take a vital role in becoming well and staying well. With this book you can turn your hands into healing tools--and start feeling good now.

Author: Michael Reed Gach
Paperback:  272 pages
Company: Bantam  (1990-11-01) (1990-11-01)
ISBN: 0553349708
List Price: $20.00
Amazon Price: $9.50
Used Price: $5.59

Energetic massage techniques that dispel negative emotions, relieve stress, and strengthen the senses, internal organs, and nervous system

• Shows how Chi Massage employs one’s own internal energy to promote rejuvenation

• Presents Chi Massage techniques for every organ and bodily system

• Provides a daily practice routine that requires only 5 to 10 minutes to complete

The Western concept of massage primarily concerns muscle manipulation. In the practice of Chi Massage, internal energy, or Chi, is manipulated to strengthen and rejuvenate the sense organs--eyes, ears, nose, tongue, teeth, and skin--and the internal organs. The Taoist techniques in this practice are more than 5,000 years old and, until very recently, were closely guarded secrets passed down from master to student with each master often knowing only a small part of the complete method.

In Chi Self-Massage Master Mantak Chia pieces together the entire system of Chi Massage into a logical routine, revealing the methods used by Taoist masters to maintain their youthfulness. He explains the energetic theory behind Chi Massage and how negative emotions affect the organs and nervous system. By practicing the exercises outlined and following the daily routine that requires only 5 to 10 minutes to complete, readers can strengthen their senses--most notably vision, hearing, and taste--detoxify their internal organs and glands, help control negative emotions, relieve stress and constipation, and improve their complexion, teeth and gums, and overall stamina.



Author: Mantak Chia
Paperback:  128 pages
Company: Destiny Books  (2006-06-05) (2006-06-16)
ISBN: 1594771103
List Price: $12.95
Amazon Price: $7.80
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Quantum-Touch is the touch-based healing technique that uses the chi of both practitioner and client, bringing them into harmony to allow the body to heal itself. Quantum-Touch differs from other healing techniques because it does not require long years of study and presents none of the common hurdles of understanding or application; anyone can learn to use it to become a healer, both of others and of self. In this new edition of his best-selling guide, Richard Gordon leads the reader step by step, clearly explaining how to use breathing and body-focusing techniques to raise one's energy levels. Once that is achieved, the healer can correct posture and alignment, reduce pain and inflammation, help balance emotional distress, and even heal pets. Above all, Quantum-Touch can be used in tandem with all other healing modalities, including Western medicine, and its efficacy has been attested to by physicians, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and other healing professionals.

Author: Richard Gordon
Paperback:  221 pages
Company: North Atlantic Books  (2006-08-17) (2006-08-17)
ISBN: 1556435940
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $11.00
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Author: Ruth Werner
Hardcover:  740 pages
Company: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins  (2008-01-01)
ISBN: 0781769191
List Price: $56.95
Amazon Price: $37.48
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Combines acupressure and massage to treat pain using elastic tape

• Shows how the use of an elastic, adhesive tape works with the body’s own motions to combine the actions of acupressure and massage

• Presents both therapeutic and preventative techniques for acute and chronic pain

• Contains step-by-step instructions illustrated in full color detailing how to self-treat pain in all parts of the body

Sufferers of chronic pain well know the frustration of treatments involving endless rounds of drugs or expensive physical therapy--that may or may not offer relief. In Acupressure Taping, authors Hecker and Liebchen present a comprehensive guide to a new method of pain treatment--acutaping--which offers a much simpler and more effective alternative. In acutaping, elastic tape is placed over the afflicted area in accordance with related acupuncture points. During the course of normal movement throughout the day, the elastic tape provides a gentle but consistent massage to the inflamed area. Because the skin adheres to the tape, it is shifted against the subtissue during motion, causing lymph tissue to drain and connective tissue to be massaged.

The authors show that most bodily dysfunctions can be self-treated through this innovative method. Combining elements of Chinese medicine with osteopathy, acutaping produces a method of treatment for ailments ranging from back pain and tennis elbow to menstrual pain and migraines. Acutaping is an easy and effective treatment--without side effects--that offers welcome relief to sufferers of chronic pain.

Author: Hans-Ulrich Hecker, Kay Liebchen
Paperback:  128 pages
Company: Healing Arts Press  (2007-04-24) (2007-05-05)
ISBN: 1594771480
List Price: $16.95
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Author: Roberta Temes
Paperback:  224 pages
Company: Da Capo Press  (2006-02-22)
ISBN: 1569243247
List Price: $14.95
Amazon Price: $8.39
Used Price: $7.90

This pioneering book in massage therapy provides basic information on the art and science of effective healing massage techniques in quick-learn, easy-to-understand terms. Whether you're a licensed massage therapy practitioner, health related professional, or just interested in basic massage therapy techniques, this is the book for you! The authors carefully examine the foundations of healing massage, western massage techniques, contemporary massage including myofascial techniques, trigger points, lymphatic drainage massage, foot reflexology, Asian bodywork therapy and applications of massage. For those involved with therapeutic massage and bodywork.

Author: Patricia J. Benjamin, Frances M. Tappan
Paperback:  528 pages
Company: Prentice Hall  (2004-06-25)
ISBN: 0130987158
List Price: $62.20
Amazon Price: $46.65
Used Price: $38.89

A clinical reference manual for the evaluation and treatment of muscle pain

• Contains detailed illustrations of pain patterns and trigger-point locations

• 15,000 copies sold in first hardcover edition

Myofascial pain syndromes are among the fastest growing problems that physicians, osteopaths, acupuncturists, and physical, occupational, and massage therapists encounter in their patients. In Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain Donna and Steven Finando have organized vast amounts of information on treating myofascial pain into an accessible "user's manual" for healthcare practitioners. They examine a wide range of pain patterns and present evaluation and palpation techniques for reducing trigger points--and thereby alleviating pain--in the most clinically significant musculature of the body.

This comprehensive yet easy-to-use reference guide to treatment of muscle pain begins with chapters on the concept of Qi and its relationship to myology, specific trigger point location and activation, and palpatory skill-building techniques. Subsequent sections provide detailed information on each muscle to teach clinicians to locate quickly and accurately individual points of pain and compensation. A visual index allows easy identification of the muscles that may be involved. Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain provides necessary and invaluable information for sufferers and any professional involved with myofascial disorders.

Author: Donna Finando, Steven Finando
Paperback:  256 pages
Company: Healing Arts Press  (2005-08-22) (2005-09-02)
ISBN: 1594770549
List Price: $19.95
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Author: James H Clay, David M Pounds
Hardcover:  443 pages
Company: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins  (2006-12-01)
ISBN: 0781756774
List Price: $59.95
Amazon Price: $35.90
Used Price: $38.84