Mar 21

Health and Beauty

Kelli’s Healing Spa
By Rita Cook

Stop and relax? Who has time nowadays? Find the time and you will be glad you did when you experience Kelli's Healing Spa in Northridge. Offering specific treatments in a primo environment just right for relaxing, at Kelli's you can sooth your mind and your soul.

Kelli's Healing Spa is located in a ranch-style house for privacy, but the experience goes beyond the regular "shop" spa type of atmosphere. For one, you are the only client being pampered as you make the day all about you. And, you don't have to worry about disturbances outside the door.

There is also a post/pre treatment room where medication and quiet time is encouraged as well as a room featuring a crystal fireplace. It's the kind of place you want to spend the day, with a Jacuzzi in the garden rounding out the experience and that's even before you get started on your treatment.

Kelli Warren, owner of Kelli's Healing Spa spends a lot of time on her specialized treatments and one to try is the Organic Custom Eminence Facial. A 75-minute experience - relaxation-plus - offering pure pleasure Warren will also clear your chakras and work with your higher energy so you come away feeling refreshed both inside and out.

The facial begins with an energy-balancing color-therapy and quiet gonging done by Warren who engages the healing tones from a Tibetan singing bowl. The gong has the effect of deep repose as the facial begins slowly with a steam and detoxifying exfoliation treatment to begin the experience.

Warren also massages the face integrating lymphatic drainage and acupressure to all the muscles in the face (55 in all), again it's a massage that you won't forget.

The option to add a chemical peel is included in the facial with a choice of a yam and pumpkin enzyme peel, cherry wine peel, blueberry red wine peel, non peel with 35% copper peptides and DMAE or a papaya and pineapple enzyme peel. All peels smooth and firm and, while you relax Warren also offers a back, arm and scalp massage.

Warren studied for a time at an Ashram in India and brought back many holistic techniques to integrate into her practice. As you enjoy the peace and tranquility, she might also go around your body and do a light form of reiki, for lack of a better word. While the touch is light at Kelli's Healing Spa, the relaxation you walk away with afterward will astound you.

Another plus, Kelli's Healing Spa recently introduced a form of light therapy that offers LED red or blue lights for specific treatments to the skin. The red light therapy was a NASA brainchild helping astronauts in space with injuries that are not easy to heel at zero gravity, think how it can improve your skin too. In fact, it is said to stimulate the production of new collagen and elastin also reducing lines and wrinkles.

The LED light is good for acne and clearing other impurities, Warren can help you decide the light treatment will better serve your skin.

Other treatments include energy healing/chakra balancing/clearing, a back facial, ear coning or a full body detox and vitamin-infusion massage, but the list goes on, all deeply calming.

Kelli's Healing Spa also offers the standard waxing treatments touting the gentle way to remove hair with low temperature chamomile and tea tree oil infused wax.

When you're finished with your treatment be sure and enjoy a hot tea and fruit before re-entering the real world again, but come away with a peace and calm that will encourage a second visit soon.

Kelli's Healing Spa

818-739-0695

www.kellishealingspa.com

Minimally Invasive Sinus Surgery using Balloon Technology
Balloon sinuplasty offers sinus sufferers a rapid, painless procedure for correction of chronic sinus blockage that does not improve with medical therapy.
By Staff Writer

Balloon sinuplasty, a revolutionary new technique to relieve sinus obstruction. Dr. Marc Kerner, an Otolaryngologist-Facial Plastic Surgeon in Los Angeles, California describes the procedure in detail. Balloon SinuplastyTM technology extends the sinus surgery evolution by offering the surgeon additional tools for endoscopic surgery. The Relieva Balloon SinuplastyTM products are catheter-based devices designed to open the ostia to the sinuses in a minimally destructive manner. This results in clearing blocked sinuses, restoring normal sinus drainage and function, and preserving normal anatomy and mucosal tissue. The opening attained by the Balloon SinuplastyTM system is durable and achieves the goals of sinus surgery. Post-procedure, the size of the dilated opening is approximately that of the nominal diameter of the selected Sinus Balloon Catheter (from 3mm to 7mm).

According to Dr Marc Kerner, "Balloon sinuplasty offers us another technique to provide minimally invasive surgery for patients suffering from sinus blockages." The procedure is performed on an outpatient basis and allows patients a rapid recovery. Patient Gloria Ward is so excited about the results, "I am now able to breathe easily through my nose, my headaches are gone, and hopefully I will be done with recurrent sinus infections."

The technology for this procedure was adopted from angioplasty in which small balloon catheters are threaded into either a blood vessel as in angioplasty, or into the small sinus openings, dilating them and preventing them from blockage that occurs with infections.

The Balloon SinuplastyTM devices are effective endoscopic tools and may be used with other medical therapies or endoscopic surgical techniques. In a patient, the Balloon SinuplastyTM products can be used on several sinuses. Additionally, using these devices do not limit future treatment options for patients with progressive disease.

Each patient suffering from sinusitis is different. Only after thorough examinations and discussions between the patient and Dr. Kerner can it be determined whether you may benefit from the Balloon SinuplastyTM system. To contact Dr Kerner office please call (818) 349-0600 or visit his website at www.marckernermd.com