Take 5 Accepts Credit Cards!

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Now the option of paying for your services and gift certificates via credit card, debit card, Health Savings Account, or Flexible Spending Account is available.


            Take 5 Bodywork 

            now accepts the 

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Suzanna Young, LMT
Take 5 Bodywork
State-Certified & Licensed Massage Therapy
(805) 637-3586
Suzanna@Take5Bodywork.com

Massage Isn't Pampering

Did you catch the article that came out in the March 13, 2012 Wall Street Journal?

"Don't Call It Pampering: 

Massage Wants to Be Medicine" 

by Andrea Petersen can be read in full here.

As you read, you'll learn that clinical studies have proven that massage therapy:

• Boosts immune function in women with breast cancer
• Improves symptoms in children with asthma
• Increases grip strength in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome
• Helps premature babies gain weight
• Is recommended by the American Pain Society for treating low back pain
• Releases toxins
• Improves circulation
• Reduces the stress hormone cortisol in the blood
• Decreases inflammation and allergic reactions
• Boosts white blood cells that fight infection

And... this is only the start of many research studies to come!  

Stay tuned and schedule your massage with Take 5 Bodywork now! 

Every Body Needs to TAKE 5 Every Now & Then!

Gift Certificate Winners

 

 

Take 5 Bodywork is pleased to announce
The Winners of a
Take 5 Bodywork
Gift Certificate for Massage!

Thank you to all who attended the 2012 Women's Festival 

held at the Santa Barbara City College last week.
We had a great turnout and I appreciate all who stopped by my table, 

sampled my massage, and entered the drawing.

Gift certificates have been mailed to....
[drum roll, please...]

Neil P.
Caitlin K.
Rick G.

But all is not lost if you didn't win a gift certificate!

Remember, you can still get a
dang good deal
on your first massage with
Take 5 Bodywork,
home of SB's Most Comfortable Table!


Here's How:
Enter promo code “FESTIVAL”
when you book your massage now
to receive a deep discount of
$25 off your first session
at Take 5 Bodywork.

Booking online is safe, secure, and so simple!  Follow the easy instructions to schedule your appointment.  

At the contact info screen, be sure to enter the promo code. Discount will be taken at time of session.

Schedule Your Massage Now!  

 

A festival-goer TAKES 5 at the 2012 Women's Festival.

Post-Exercise Massage Benefits

 Study works out kinks in understanding of massage

By Eryn Brown • Wed Feb 1 2012 10:34 PM • Extracted from LA Times

Everyone knows that it can feel really good to get a massage.

Now scientists may have figured out why, by identifying how massage switches genes on and off, thus reducing inflammation and coaxing muscle adaptation to exercise.

The discovery provides strong evidence that massage merits further study as a treatment for injuries and chronic disorders, said Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, a researcher at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and lead author of a study about the research released Wednesday.

Tarnopolsky, who has studied the cellular effects of exercise for decades, performed muscle biopsies in both legs of healthy young men before and after they'd undergone strenuous exercise, and then a third time after massaging just one leg in each individual.

Comparing tissues from each subject's massaged leg with tissues from his unmassaged leg, Tarnopolsky and his team found that massage therapy reduced exercise-related inflammation by dampening activity of a protein called NF-kB.

Massage also seemed to help cells recover by boosting amounts of another protein called PGC-1alpha, which spurs production of new mitochondria — tiny organelles inside cells that are crucial for muscle energy generation and adaptation to endurance exercise.

Other proteins with similar roles were influenced by massage as well.

Read the full article as published in the LA Times here. 

Valentine's Day Special Deal!

Happy New Year!

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you'll be in the loop on all the latest promotions, health tips, articles, 

and even complimentary issues of Body Sense Magazine, 

which you can view by clicking here now.

 

To become a subscriber to the email list, please email Suzanna@Take5Bodywork.com.

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Heavenly Holiday Sale!

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Just in time for the holidays...

The Heavenly Holiday Sale

Purchase four (4) gift certificates for
60- or 90-minute massages,
get a Hands & Feet Sole-utions
treatment (a $65 value)
for only $15!

or

Purchase five (5) gift certificates for
60- or 90-minute massages, get a
Hands & Feet Sole-utions treatment
(a $65 value) for FREE!

 

HURRY! This offer expires 12/31/11
but the gift certificates never expire!

To take advantage of this deal,
please call or email Suzanna at
Take 5 Bodywork
(805) 637-3586
Suzanna@Take5Bodywork.com
www.Take5Bodywork.com

 

 

 

 

Try these new menu items designed to rejuvenate and nurture your oft-abused hands and feet!

 

Hands & Feet Sole-utions The ultimate way to soothe, revitalize, re-mineralize, and restore your hands and feet.   Read more about it here.

Reflexology Learn how this unique hand and foot massage helps the body heal and restore balance.

 

Every Body Deserves to Take 5 Every Now & Then!