JENNIFER HUGHES Registered Massage Therapist (Mississippi No. 393) Deep Massage - Experienced as a massage therapist since 1989 and NATIONALLY CERTIFIED. If you need the benefits from Sweedish, DEEP TISSUE and Pressure Point then place your appointment with Jennifer. Works in Jackson 7 Days Week  by appointment from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.  APPOINTMENT POLICY By appointment only. When making an appointment, please indicate if it you would like a whole or half session and if you would like a steam treament with your massage. Each session is 50-90 minutes, 1/2 sessions available for neck, shoulders,  and back. APPOINTMENT HOURS - (JACKSON ONLY!) Available hours are from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. 7 Days a Week!  Appointments for after 5 p.m. must be scheduled no later than 5 p.m. that day. Saturday appointments are available upon request. CANCELLATION POLICY Scheduled apppointments not cancelled at least two hours in advance will be charged the regular fee. FEES Payment of fees is expected upon arrival for massage or treatment. Massage - 1/2 hour massage $40 - $50,  1 hour massage $60 - $80,  90 minute massage $100 - $130 (depends upon body density, height and weight).  Steam Treaments with Aroma Therapy - $20 ($15 with massage)  Ear Candling - $50 per session (2 candles per ear; extra candles $12 each). Maximum 4 candles. PAYMENT METHODS ACCEPTED Cash or Check (with ID) Only Please RECOURSE POLICY If you are dissatisfied we have a 100% money back guarantee. Gift Certificates Available! CLIENT/PRACTITIONER EXPECTATIONS The first session begins with a health history. You will be asked a series of questions. Everything communicated is held completely confidential. The client's privacy is always respected. Clients may leave undergarments on during the massage or treatment session if desired. Hot oil or lotion is used during your massage to break friction and keep the rub smooth. The oil may be left on your skin or we offer a hot towel wipe down. During the sessions, clients are encouraged to relax and communicate to inform the therapist if anything makes them feel uncomfortable, either physically or psychologically. Some soreness may occur after a massage. As a precaution, try not to eat before the session if extensive work is needed on the lower back. Drinking lots of water after a session decreases soreness significantly.	THE MIRACLE JOURNEY You may never guess when you meet the vibrantly healthy woman that she is a living miracle. At the age of 22, Jennifer Hughes had no mental response and a prognosis that she would never be able to walk again - (let alone do something as strenuous as massage therapy she performs with such vigor today). Hughes journey to her present business, Family Therapeutic Massage, began very early in her life. She doesn’t remember how old she was at the time, but says that somehow she learned that she had incredibly strong hands and grew up always recognizing her massage abilities. In the early eighties, while living in California, she became acquainted with a professional massage therapist who, when he found out that she’d always considered herself talented in therapeutic massage, introduced her to the proper techniques used in therapeutic body massage. After a year of practicing under his guidance, she returned “home” to Mississippi, never dreaming that she would ever use those skills; massage was just something that she considered as a career.     In March, 1985, Jennifer had a traumatic car accident resulting in two broken legs (each leg had multiple breaks), crushed lungs, and head injuries with two hematomas on her brain and extreme blood loss.  One knee was so badly damaged that amputation was recommended. Jennifer was in a coma for five weeks, not expected to live because of the severe brain damage and multiple body injuries. After being in a coma for five weeks she had mentally regressed to her childhood and did not speak. She whined like a baby. Released from the hospital, Hughes sat in her wheelchair. Family members talked to her constantly but she did not appear to hear them or respond in any way. It was a very slow healing process. Then, one day, one of her sisters asked her a question and Jennifer answered it! She was finally on her way to recovery for the next several months.  Later, a man whom Jennifer had briefly met a couple of years earlier had suffered a major stroke. He had been told that he would never walk again and lost the use of his left arm. This was a very unhappy man. He remembered meeting Hughes who also wasn’t supposed to be walking, but to his surprise, was walking. Impressed by her recovery, he asked her to assist him with his recovery. She agreed.  His rehabilitation included extensive physical therapy treatments and therapeutic massage twice a day, seven days a week. Slowly but surely, over time, his strength built up, the knots were worked out of his body, and he was out of his wheel chair and on his feet.  It was then that Jennifer Hughes realized that God had answered her prayers about finding work. She realized that massage was the calling she had searched for since her car accident. After all, hadn’t she always been a massage therapist?!!  That revelation came in January of 1989, and Jennifer Hughes has been helping people with her massage therapy techniques ever since. She took a course in anatomy and physiology and studied hard in preparation for her entrance exam for the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA). She passed her exam and opened Family Therapeutic Massage. On the wall is a framed arrangement of the metal pins which at one time held her legs together. In November, 1993, Jennifer passed the national certification boards for therapeutic massage and bodywork.      The name for the business was originally chosen because people of all ages can benefit from massage therapy. But some things won’t change, the framed pin arrangement on her office wall, serves as a reminder of Jennifer’s miracle journey that helped set the way to where she is today...   A caring and talented Massage Therapist!