An Acupressure Massage Tool The Health Body Ball

Pain relief in the palm of your hand

Now, with The Healthy Body Ball, you can enjoy a healing Trigger Point Massage Therapy massage in the comfort of your own home, and you are in control.

The nodules on the body ball are designed to simulate the action of the Thumbs and elbows of a Trigger Point or acupressure massage therapist.

After extensive hands on testing, (tough job, but some one has to do it ) The Health Body Ball is one of the best tools for conducting trigger point massage on your self.

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Physical, Mental and Wellness Benefits

Healthy Body Ball can provide the following benefits:

•  Helps alleviate pain
•  Helps stop the pain-spasm-pain cycle
• Helps relieve muscle tension and stiffness
•  Helps relieve stress and aids relaxation
•  Fosters faster healing
•  Reduces muscle spasms
•  Provides greater joint flexibility and range of motion
•  Enhances athletic performance
•  Promotes deeper and easier breathing
•  Improves circulation of blood and movement of lymph fluids
•  Helps relieve tension related headaches and eye strain
•  Enhances the health and nourishment of skin
•  Improves posture
•  Fosters peace of mind
•  Reduces levels of anxiety
•  Improves ability to monitor stress signals and respond appropriately

Your Healthy Body Ball comes with a 15 page User’s Guide containing complete instructions for use along with diagrams.

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Listening to Your Body

What are Trigger points and How does Trigger point massage work?

Trigger points are clustered areas of pain in or around muscles that usually radiate pain in a predictable pattern. When a muscle, or group of muscles, incurs injury, it automatically contracts around the painful site to support and protect the area. If pain is resolved quickly, the muscles can relax. If pain persists, muscles can become habitually contracted. Sometimes contractions press on nerves causing tingling, numbness, and more pain. Like a sponge that is squeezed, a contracted muscle can’t hold much blood. Blood transports oxygen and nutrients to the muscles and carries away waste products. When a muscle is deprived of healthy circulation, it doesn’t receive enough oxygen and nutrients, and waste products accumulate. This can result in fatigue and soreness. It can also irritate nerves in the area, causing pain to spread beyond the congested area.

Finding the Real Source of Pain

Most trigger points are easy to detect by locating the pain, applying pressure and experiencing the subsequent release, however, in some cases, the real source of pain may be a "boss" trigger point located quite a distance from the "satellite" trigger point (pain site). For example, a boss trigger point for the wrist, forearm and hand is frequently located in the region of the shoulder blade. Thus, pain associated with the wrist, forearm and hand may require treatment of the boss trigger point, not the localized satellite point. The "Healthy Body Ball User’s Guide," included with each Healthy Body Ball, contains information on how to locate the appropriate trigger points.

The Pain-Spasm-Pain Cycle

The "pain-spasm-pain" cycle is a complete chain of events, which is reinforced by each event in the cycle. Pain often begins with injury, illness, inadequate stretching before sports or physical activities, or overuse of a muscle. Each event, especially stress, can add to or even start the cycle. The pain cycle involves these major events:

• Pain, which leads to
• Muscle tension and pressure on nerves, which causes reduced circulation and muscle shortening.
• Reduced circulation and muscle shortening results in restricted movement and causes trigger points to form.
• Trigger points cause more stress and more pain.

Any single event in the pain cycle can set off the complex chain of events that ultimately leads back to pain. Treating trigger point pain with the Healthy Body Ball interrupts the pain-spasm-pain cycle without drugs or negative side effects.

When working with Healthy Body Ball, let pain be your friend and your guide. Most people avoid pain, but pain is the body’s way of communicating. Pain will guide you to trigger points. The Healthy Body Ball User’s Guide has helpful tips for locating trigger point problem areas. Within approximately 20 seconds of applying Healthy Body Ball to the afflicted muscles, the pain should dissipate and, in many cases, be gone entirely. When I use the ball, I feel an increase in relaxation and mental clarity, as well as pain relief. Although the muscle doctor is nowhere to be found, self-massage, taking charge of your pain and healing yourself is. Happy Healing!

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