Physical Benefits of Therapeutic Massage according to holisticonline.com. These are some of the benefits your employees will receive from receiving chair massage at work. For a list of referrals please contact us at 800-296-8634…..Body Charge Inc., the leader in office massage.

	Helps relieve stress and aids relaxation
	Helps relieve muscle tension and stiffness

Alleviates discomfort during pregnancy

	Fosters faster healing of strained muscles and sprained ligaments; reduces pain and swelling; reduces formation of excessive scar tissue
	Reduces muscle spasms
	Provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
	Enhances athletic performance; Treats injuries caused during sport or work
	Promotes deeper and easier breathing
	Improves circulation of blood and movement of lymph fluids
	Reduces blood pressure
	Helps relieve tension-related headaches and effects of eye-strain
	Enhances the health and nourishment of skin
	Improves posture
	Strengthens the immune system

	Treats musculoskeletal problems
	Rehabilitation post operative
	Rehabilitation after injury

Chair Massage at your health and wellness day is a great way of showing employees
the stress reducing benefits of massage and at the same time promote wellness at work. It could also lead to a chair massage program in your company. It will show your employees that you care about their health and are willing to back it up. Call us for a free estimate at 800-296-8634. We can make this service very affordable and guarantee great results!!

Body Charge Inc. LA’s premiere seated massage company, will provide chair massage, foot reflexology and aromatherapy at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Annual Health Fair for the 7th year in a row on October 3rd, 2007.
An avid fan of children and their health care, Paul Guditis founder of BCI, says that this is one of the most enjoyable and fulfilling events of the year. “I figure if we can provide any kind of relief for the doctors and the nurses at the hospital, the children receiving treatment will be the beneficiaries. What’s not to like about that?”

BCI provides the hospital with massage 3 times a month, and at very reduced rates. “At the hospital, it’s not about the money, it’s about kids, and helping the kids. I don’t make a dime on this, and the therapists charge a reduced rate. It’s a privilege to walk in and be of service in some small way.”

Did you know that chair massage is the perfect idea for rewarding a group of employees for a job well done? Or at a CPA firm during the heat of tax season? Well it is, and Body Charge Inc. has been taking care of CPA firms in Philadelphia and Los Angeles for the past 4 years.

It is in the heat of business deals that corporate massage can help with executives and their stress levels. When the body is calm and relaxed, better decisions can be made. Calm and relaxed decisions, rather than reactive decisions.

Quarterly massage days are a morale booster and is a way of showing employees appreciation that they are valued.

Hollywood has employed Body Charge Inc. numerous times for work at sound stages, locations and digital effects studios. As you can see, seated massage is valuable and portable, able to relieve tension during a work day. Seems insignificant but it’s not. Educating employees about what they can do to help themselves is our job. Let Body Charge help you and your employees discover chair massage.

One of the ways that one can reduce stress is practicing meditation. Combined with massage, it is a great way of taking care of yourself, and enjoying health. Meditation is a way of calming the mind and slowing down the breathing and blood pressure. A lot of times the stressful situation is not the problem, but more about the way one thinks about the situation.
Meditation is not spacing out with eyes closed, nor is it day dreaming or repeating affirmations. It is a gentle way of calming the mind. By calming the mind, and focusing attention on the breath, eventually the way things are viewed, changes and shifts.

Below is a link that is a simple way of starting a meditation practice. Give it time, because meditation has a cumulative effect. 10 minutes a day regularly is better than an hour sit, and then skipping 3 days at a time. Enjoy this simple but effective way of reducing stress!

Body Charge Inc. can provide your tour with a national team of massage therapists, reflexologists, hot stone therapy all done on massage chairs and La Fuma recliners.

We are just finishing up tours with the Avon Breast Cancer Walk and Wrigleys Spearmint Gum College Campus Events…both are 10-city national events.

 Please call us at 800-296-8634.

The holidays are upon us and although this is a time of good cheer, along with the season comes stress.  Shopping, racking up credit cards, relatives, parents, kids, and an overall abundance of activities, tend to make the Christmas vacation work rather than a peaceful break from work.

So take a break and make time for yourself.  Massage is a wonderful way to get back to center and relax.  Your blood pressure and heart rate return to baseline, your blood flow readjusts, muscles relax, and you move toward a state of recovery and recuperation.  Your immune system strengthens because of the increased flow of lymph cells through your system.

And Breathe.

Happy Holidays and a healthy, peaceful New Year.

Body Charge Inc.

Much of our stress comes from threats, real or imagined, to our social status, not to our lives. But if this fight or flight reaction is kicking in even when there is no threat, it can cause long term problems.

Headaches, IBS, chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, are just some of the conditions that can be produced by long term stress. Job burnout, exhaustion are all symptoms of stress over long periods of time.

Managing stress, as opposed to reacting to it, is the key.  Life isn’t going to go our way all the time. It never does, and it isn’t supposed to.  However, dealing with the hand we’re dealt, as opposed to reacting to it, and the skills necessary for that, are important to learn. 

One of the ways that mobile massage and chair massage do that is by pacifying the sympathetic nervous system. Its function is to speed things up, during fight or flight. Massage stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system. Its function is to slow and calm things down. More on this in another blog, soon to come.

One of the great things about seated chair massage and mobile massage therapy is that it can come to you, on the job, in the heat of battle!!

The Touch Therapy Institute Research at University of Miami did a study on a 15-minute chair massage and its effect on job related stress, ie anxiety, productivity and job satisfaction. This was done twice weekly during lunch, for 5 weeks.

The results:

1. participants reported feeling less fatigue and being able to think more clearly;

2. EEG alpha, beta, and theta waves were altered in ways that are consistent with enhanced alertness

3. math problems were completed in approximately half the time with approximately 50% less errors by the end of the intervention

4. anxiety levels were lower at the end of the one monthperiod, and

5 the massage therapist reported that the subjects were more relaxed by the end of the one month intervention

Body Charge can bring this service to your office, event or mobile tour complete with aromatherapy, hot stones, reflexology or chair massage. Nationwide.

Having a massage therapist come to your office is not a luxury anymore, it is a necessity. There are a number of reasons for this, and here are some of them:

1. Reduces anxiety
2. Enhances self image
3. Provides a feeling of well being
4. Promotes creativity
5. Calms
6. Improves concentration

Seated massage has been around since 1985 when Apple Computer started bringing in chair massage to their offices in Silicon Valley. Since then, chair massage has expanded to health food stores, health fairs,casinos, movie sets, hotels, and a myriad of other venues.

Please take the time to investigate your options for wellness and a stress free environment at your place of work.