La Stone Therapy Benefits
Hot stones have been used on the body for a number of reasons including relieving menstrual pain, slowing down the digestive process, as a medium for healing, and for spiritual enhancement. Even cowboys simply heated stones and slept on them.
For most of us, using hot stones or anything hot to relieve aches, pains and stress does not seem very far-fetched.
For in our own ways, we do give our body heat therapy when we soak in a hot tub, when we have a hot shower, or even when we use a hot water bottle in bed. All of us know that heat does make us feel good, so any therapy that uses heat is bound to work too. La stone therapy is heat therapy with a twist. Read on to find out more about La stone therapy, how it works, its origin and its benefits.
La stone therapy
It is a relatively new technique that has been practiced successfully for about 20 years. This stone therapy is a massage therapy in which stones are used to help massage the body. These stones are heated to different temperatures in order to make the massage more beneficial. In this form of therapy, both hot and cold stones are used to help massage the body and relive stress.
Generally, the stones that are heated are basalt stones. The specialty of the basalt stone is that it is volcanic rock, and the reason that this is used as hot stones is because basalt is an excellent thermal insulator, containing iron which not only heats up quickly but also retains the heat for longer. The cold stones that are used are marble. Marble is a metamorphic rock, a rock which has changed over time due to pressure and heat. As marble is a naturally cold stone, it is used as the medium to alternate hot stones.
Stones like jade are used both as hot as well as cold stones.
Another popular stone used as a hot stone is petosky, while sardonyx is commonly used as a cold stone.
Origin of La stone therapy.
The La stone massage was developed by Mary D. Nelson. Mary Nelson is a therapist, who graduated from the Desert Institute of Healing Arts; she deals with clearing out problems in the energy fields. As someone who suffered from a rotary cuff injury, pain was a normal part of her day. Being a massage therapist, she did not know how to carry on, when sitting in a broken sauna with her niece, her inner spirit told her to pick up the stones and use them, and that’s how the La stone therapy came about.
How does it work?
La stone theory is often referred to as cardiovascular gymnastics. This is because of the alternating of the cold and hot stones. This technique is believed to help the body rejuvenate and heal itself. The alternating cold and hot stones are believed to promote release of chemicals in the body, removing toxins and helping to restore the body, thus healing it and treating physical pain.
La Stone Therapy Benefits
Listed below are some of the benefits that are believed to be the result of the La stone therapy,
- Removes pain from wrists
- Removes hand aches
- Removes arm pain
- Removes fatigue
- Increases energy levels
- Lowers stress
- Lowers tension
- Promotes restful sleep
- Stimulates endorphin production, making you feel good both physically and mentally
- Improves lymph circulation
- Promotes release of toxins from the body
- Reduces swelling
While La stone therapy is believed to help promote all these benefits, as it is a new therapy, there are not enough studies done to substantiate its benefits. While this therapy should not take the place of medical help, it still is a therapy that a lot of people believe works extremely well for them.
