The Benefits of Massage

• Increase the bloods oxygen capacity.
• Helps loosen contracted, shortened muscles and stimulate weak, flaccid muscles. This muscle balancing can even help posture and promote more efficient movement.
• Balance the nervous system by soothing or stimulating it, depending on which effect is needed.
• Indirectly or directly stimulates the nerve supply internal organs and improving blood supply.

Remedial Massage

Remedial massage improves circulation, increases lymphatic flow, address specific muscle soreness and assist patients to maintain well being. In addition remedial massage treats and manages chronic back pain and other musculoskeletal pain, pain associated with arthritis, headaches, sports injuries and insomnia.

Deep Tissue Massage

Deep Tissue Massage is a massage technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the fibers of the muscles, tendons and fascia. Deep tissue massage is used to release chronic muscle tension through slower strokes and more direct deep pressure or friction applied across the grain of the muscles not with the grain. Deep tissue massage helps to break up and eliminate scar tissue. Deep tissue massage usually focuses on more specific areas and may cause some soreness during or right after the massage. However, if the massage is done correctly you should feel better than ever within a day or two.

Myofascial Release

Myofascial release refers to the manual massage technique for stretching the fascia and releasing bonds between fascia and integument, muscles and bones, with the goal of eliminating pain, increasing range of motion and balancing the body. The fascia is manipulated, directly or indirectly, allowing the connective tissue fibers to reorganize themselves in a more flexible, functional fashion. Injuries, stress, inflammation, trauma, and poor posture can cause restriction to fascia. Since fascia is an interconnected web, the restriction or tightness to fascia at a place, with time can spread to other places in the body like a pull in a sweater. The goal of myofascial release is to release fascia restriction and restore its tissue health.

Trigger Point Therapy

Trigger points are described as hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of muscle fibres. The palpable nodules are said to be small contraction knots and a common cause of pain. Compression of a trigger point may elicit local tenderness, referred pain, or motor dysfunction. Massage of the trigger point flushers the tissues and helps the trigger point’s contracted to begin to release. In dealing directly with the trigger point, massage is the safest, most natural and most effective form of therapy.

Relaxation Massage/Swedish Massage

A collection of techniques designed primarily to relax muscles by applying pressure to them against deeper muscles and bones, and rubbing in the same direction as the flow of blood returning to the heart. Swedish massage uses five main strokes to stimulate the circulation of blood through the body; petrissage (kneading), effleurage (stroking), friction, tapotement (tapping), and vibration.