The Thai Herbal Ball compress technique offers several potential health benefits: It induces deep relaxation, relieves stress and fatigue, boosts both emotional and physical well-being, assists alignment and postural integrity of the body, improves circulation of blood and lymph and stimulates the internal organs.
The hot compresses are ideal for alleviating pain, stiff, sore or pulled muscles and ligaments, chronic back aches, arthritis, even skin conditions, migraines and chronic stress or anxiety. The blend of traditional Thai herbs used in these compresses has a relaxing and invigorating effect on the body and mind, soothing sore and overworked muscles while giving the body's energy reserves a huge boost.
Muscles, because of their strong fibers, can lengthen fairly little over a long process of continuously stretching. Therefore, relaxing the tension of the muscle is the most important aspect of stretching rather. To relax the muscle’s tension we have to convince the defense mechanism of the muscle to relax. This mechanism is called the stretch reflex.
The physiology of the stretch system starts with stretch receptors called muscle spindles. These are the nerve ending that weave around the muscle’s cells. They monitor the amount and speed of the muscle stretch. The stretch receptor’s (muscle spindles) goal is to prevent tears in the muscle that may arise due to overstretching them. Therefore, if we stretch too quickly or too much we will, actually, create the opposite result- by a reflex the same muscle that we want to stretch will contract as a protective mechanism