welcome back to living local the fourth annual QC fitfest is back this year this interactive familyfriendly fitness expo is making getting healthier easier for people in the Quad Cities the Expo will feature several vendors and health experts and today we are highlighting one vendor that is offering people relief from chronic muscle soreness welcome to the show Don land co-owner of the healing Oasis massage and spa in this segment sponsored by QC fitfest hey Don how are you great how are you guy
s hey so let's start with you tell us about yourself and and how long you've been doing this and why you decided to open this Spa in the Quad Cities well I was a nurse for 30 years um worked in long-term care and dementia um ended up injuring my hand in 2012 uh went two and a half years couldn't use my left hand um got my hand used my hand back went back because I couldn't go back to nursing I went and got my cosmetology and my aesthetician um did that for a couple years um my daughter went to s
chool got her massage therapy um she had her own practice for a while she found this building it was quite large she was trying to find people to rent rooms from her and she was struggling so I said well let me come in and I'll do the esthetician part I can do facials you can do massages yeah um I always wanted to have my own business so I was like well you know what Now's the Time so we decided to then um create the healing Oasis massage and spa um and we offer quite a bit of services so we're
excited um we've been officially open since November 5th and so we' looking forward to the Q fitfest to be able to really spread the word of what we have to offer yeah so so talk about some of those services that you guys offer so we do massages facials the typical stuff um I do full body waxing we do um body wraps we have like ass salt uh glow where you take oils and salt massage your body rinse it off we have a salt a sea mud wrap um we do reflex allery reflex alogy is like acupressure acupunc
ture um and uh then we have our red light therapy bed which is new and our Sal float tub so we're excited cuz we have a lot of so many services let's talk about red light therapy a little bit and who would benefit from that that is something that's becoming quite popular right yes so I actually used to use red light therapy for nursing years ago we used to use it for wound healing um it was actually created by NASA um in the late 90s they used it um to help plants grow in outer space um they the
n realized what red light therapy does red light therapy is part of the light spectrum um it's in red light and actually penetrates into the cells of your body um it goes into the mitochondria which is the PowerHouse of your cell and it stimulates ATP and nitric oxide which your muscles and your nerves both need to to work so what it does is it it helps every cell in your body well with wound healing we used to use it we saw people that used it for wound healing healed way better than people tha
t didn't when I went to school for esthetician they're using it for skin care helps with elastin and collagen production well when I was investigating purchasing my bread light bed yeah they are now saying that it helps with dementia it is helping with hair loss alopecia um there's so many benefits um our bed actually the um the the floor vibrates also we have different levels of vibration so people that have like lymphadema or lower leg extremity issues the vibration helps with circulation so t
here's so many benefits now there's list of things that they're saying that it helps it's good it's incredible I'm excited to be able to possibly help yeah for sure and you talked a little bit about the the salt float tub so talk a little bit more about that so the salt float tub is literally a hot tub that has just like what it sounds like then exactly has so much salt in it that you will float my husband we went to the ocean he sinks the salt float tub there's so much salt he floats um wow the
benefits of salt tub is that it's got magnesium sulfate epson salts okay oh helps with muscles aches pains yeah sore muscles joints the the other thing about it is that you can do where it's completely dark and it's completely quiet and you do that sensory deration so you're weightless like floating in outer space and you can just be quiet yeah um investigate investigating that I didn't realize you release endorphins which help with pain oh yeah you release dopamine which dopamine is the happy
thing happy but it also helps people with Parkinson's in issues with motors so combination of those those two can hugely help people yeah yeah yeah yeah that's awesome yeah that is awesome so ref reflexology let's talk that's a word that I hear a lot um you know and and you offer that as far as part of your massage services right so reflexology goes along with acupuncture acupressure okay it's ancient Chinese it's uh it it's certain parts of your hands and feet correlate with parts of your body
um when we were in school we were taught if a woman is seven months pregnant you can't massage their ankles the back of their ankles because you can actually send them into labor we would actually have women who were overdue would come in and want us to massage their ankles to stimulate them go into labor um I had issues with my scienes when I was in school and the instructor she's like give me that big toe and she starts going to town with my big toe and then my scientist started to drain so th
ere's so many things that it can help um so we have people that suffer from um planner fastis or like Achilles tant they can do a foot reflexology um and then go do stand in the red light bed so that the vibration helps with that circulation or go float in the float tub so there's the combinations of the different Services okay and I'm sure on your website you have several packages that people can look at as well but let's talk about some of the um details for the fitfest happening this weekend
absolutely we are going to be at the QC fitfest um very excited about that we're there for both days um from 11 to 3 both days I'm really excited um we'll be able to it's meant to be where we people can come and we can educate them about the services that we have um you know if you're struggling with something anxiety depression pain come talk to us we can possibly help you that's awesome that's awesome and what's the best way to get people to find you website Facebook make an appointment they c
an make they can make appointments through our website um we can yep go on there yep and um and Facebook we have a Facebook page yeah absolutely all right I love it get in there and and and heal I mean it's like an oasis that's exactly that's it that's our that's our mission is to help you feel better I need a relax you there you go well come see us we would love to have you well Donnie it's been so great talking to you thanks for coming in today thank you both too all right and this segment was
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