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Listed below are the types of massage that are available
Swedish Massage
A Swedish massage includes stroking, kneading, and pressure on muscle and tendons to increase blood and oxygen flow throughout the body. Once the muscles have been prepared some strong soft tissue manipulations may be applied to stretch or tone muscles and/or tendons.
Muscle Specific Massage
Various repetitive motions and or sport’s related activity can result in specific muscle pain. specific muscle massage focuses on specific muscles experiencing pain.
Ortho-bionomy
Orth-Bionomy is the use of comfortable position, gentle movement and light stretching to ease the body into releasing tension and pain. These movements reestablish structural realignment (can help with posture).
Integrated Massage
The use of on or several massage techniques to address specific problem areas in known as integrated massage. An integrated massage is not always a full body treatment. Integrated massage may include but is not limited to a medical background check (if applicable) and a body analysis by one the therapists. The body analysis with list specific areas affected and deviations form normal neuromuscularsymboisis. Specific therapy will then be designed to address problems discovered during the body assessment. Frequency and type of therapy is at the discretion of the therapist and client, with the client’s interest of primary concern.
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage is very specific, requiring the application of pressure deep into painful tissues. Cross-fibering, stretching and treating trigger points is intense treatment for the patient and practitioner alike. It is used to speed the healing of injured fibers, reduce scarring and lengthen specific muscles. Frictioning must be applied with the fingers and skin moving together as one unit at the right angle deeply enough to penetrate to the site of the trauma. Treatment must be given frequently enough to have a progressive impact on the adhered tissue, increasing the range of motion. Deep tissue massage counteracts the pain syndrome; the interconnected, self- perpetuating pattern that reinforces itself.
Myofascial Release
Applies direct hands-on pressure to the myofascia for the purpose of restoring fluid mobility between muscle layers and individual joints. Referring back to the nature of connective tissue, Fascia responds to injury, tension and misuse by becoming more dense, viscous and fibrous. Immobilized Fascia can act like glue, compressing the joints, restricting mobility and causing excessive muscle effort, poor posture and a progressive escalation of movement dysfunction. Myofascia is a three-dimensional, continuous, complete, interrelated and casually inter-connected system. Within this system "planes of fascia in one region of the body are directly continuous with the same planes in all other regions. This "law" of continuity of fascial planes has a profound effect on the structure and function of the human body. |
