Perhaps readers may of thought I was seeking information on a massage with a happy ending "sex" NO I am seriously looking to find information on proffesional massage I have fibromyalgia, massages and sunshine is what helps me cope with it. Would appreciate rates per hour for both myself and my wife going for 3 weeks in March of 2008. Will be staying 1 week in San Jose, 1 week Jaco Beach, and 1 week of adventure touring interesting areas in the rain forest etc.

Sincerely Jim

Hello!

I can recommend following therapeutic massage therapist:

Lic. Warren Rodriguez Soto
Terapia Fisica
Atenas
Tel. 821-4817 + 446-8195

He has a lot of special licences and is located not far from the main road from San Jose to Jaco (there is a sign on the street)...

If you re think about staying in Atenas (which I also would recommend ...):
friends of us are building at the moment a guest house with a special treatment possibility - a kind of hydro massage. How it works - more or less - look here: http://www.frei-gesund.ch/info/info_e.htm

Our friend swears that this treatment is GREAT for a lot of deseases, maybe it could help you, too!?!

They should be ready in March. If you re interested in, please let me know and I send you their address.

Regards
Sylvia


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Thank you so much, it is the kind of place I am looking for. I will be going for 2 weeks in March with my wife and would like to expirience different treatments for sure. I would also like to know the prices for different massages etc. Jim

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I would also like to know the prices

Hello again!

Fine that I could help you with the info.
In between I ve asked our friend about the conditions of his small private ¨health center¨ in Atenas. He plans to offer as follows (hope, I understood him right):

USD 375,- / week for accommodation with breakfast per person
USD 10,- / day for 45 minutes water massage treatment per person
USD 25,- / day lunch and dinner per person

The meals are part of the treatment, healthy diet is offered to improve the success (- I ve not really an idea what I m writing about, but he told me, that fibromyalgia is a kind of rheumatic disease and only this combination will lead to a good result...).

Please let me know when you re interested in.

Regards from sunny Atenas/ CR
Sylvia


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Thank you Sylvia, I would be interested for a couple of days due to the vacation we are planing on this year only two weeks, and are planing to visit the two coasts, volcanoes, rain forest, fishing, Panama city, San Jose etc. and trying different massages at all different places.

Regards
Jim xx besos from Canadian amigos

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...only two weeks, and are planing to visit the two coasts, volcanoes, rain forest, fishing, Panama city, San Jose etc...

Hello again!

I m sorry , I really don't want to "educate" you, but with my experience of 25 years in the travel business..., please let me say, that sometimes less is more! Your schedule remembers me a little bit on our running gag back home (I m German): Northamericans on tour - whole Europe in 4 days...

If I for myself would do the trip, I would cancel Panama City, San Jose - and maybe the "second" coast. Only a suggestion...

Verybest regards to (frosty???) Canada
Sylvia

PS: If you want, you can email me offline coricalive@aol.com


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Hola 'Caliente' Sylvia
For this year it will be a Costa Rica expirience, meaning we want to see the most we possibly can and next year we can decide on an area where we really would like to come back to and re-visit and stay longer. Yes, I know what you mean " visit Europe in 4 days, you do not get to see much of anything, traveling most of the time"

Frosty, your Canadian amigo.lol

Jim

dear jim,
found your message while looking for "fibromyalgia, costa rica" on google; I do have fibromyalgia too - and therefore I spent last year 3 months in Costa Rica to run away from the cold weather in Germany.

the warm weather in costa rica made me feel better - but not good enough. after returning to germany three months earlier I found help for my fibromyalgia - I'm suffering now for more than 30 years. some germans translated a book from Dr. Paul St. Amand - a north-american doctor.

I'm on guaifenesin now for 9 months - and this is the first winter I'm feeling better in many years.
may be after costa rica this can help you:
www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com

have a nice journey - monika, from germany

Hi Jim,
My name is Michal and I am an Acupuncturist / Massage therapist in Jaco Costa Rica. I have treated several people with Fibro and they reported really good results. Their pain was reduced for long periods of time.
I would love to help you while you are down here at the beach.
Feel free to contact me. Check my web site:http://www.costaricamassage.com/
Take care, michal

Hi,

My wife, Eva Luze Lopez Rivera de Thomas gives therapeutic massage at the Medical Clinic of Dr. Ronald Mena in Orotina, Alajuela. It's on the way from San Jose to Jaco (and points beyond). Unfortunately she doesn't speak English, and I am not sure the staff does either. She is a studied professional massage therapist (no hanky panky) thus she is in a clinic helping people with therapeutic massage needs. Most of her patients are women because most fibromyalgia and rheumatic disease sufferers are women. I believe massage may be the best therapy for fibromyaliga, and most professional massage therapists have seen some success. Her fibromyalgia patients rave. (Of couse beware the non-professional).


She charges 5,000 colones/hour, about $10.00/hour. A bit of a locals price, and she won't charge vacationers more.