Massage Modalities + Techniques
Swedish Massage
Sports + Deep Tissue
Swedish Massage uses firm but gentle pressure to promote relaxation, ease muscle tension, improve circulation, and provide a variety of health benefits. This classic massage technique involves the use of massage oil or cream with smooth, gliding strokes, which helps to:
- Relieve Pain: By loosening tight muscles, Swedish massage can help with pain relief and improve your overall comfort.
- Increase Flexibility: Regular massage helps increase flexibility and range of motion by releasing tension in the muscles and soft tissues.
- Reduce Stress: By lowering cortisol levels and increasing serotonin and dopamine, Swedish massage helps combat stress and anxiety.
- Enhance Sleep: The relaxation effects can help improve sleep quality by calming the nervous system.
"The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day."
- Hippocrates
Sports + Deep Tissue
Sports + Deep Tissue
Sports and Deep Tissue Massages are used to correct specific problems and provide relief from muscle and joint injuries. They can also be used as a recovery aid between workouts or as part of a warm up for an event.
The benefits from Sports and Deep Tissue Massage include:
- Enhances muscle length & joint motion range
- Lowers the threats of injury
- Reduces muscle strains and spasms
- Increases blood circulation
- Breaks down adhesions in muscles
- Helps flush metabolic waste from muscle tissue
This technique has a cumulative effect, with greater benefits with each session. Weekly or monthly treatments can lower the risk of injury, increase muscle flexibility and ease body pains.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage
Manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) is a specialized massage technique that works at the skin level, since the lymphatic system is just below the skin. It involves using gentle, rhythmic, and light skin movements to stimulate contractions of the lymphatic vessels following a specific sequence that starts with the main drains in the body.
Manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) can help with a variety of conditions, including:
- Primary and Secondary Lymphedema
- Migraines, neck and shoulder trauma
- Acne, Rosacea, Bell's Palsy, trigeminal neuralgia, sinusitis (without infection), Tinnitus
- Rheumatoid arthritis, Dupuytern's and DeQuervain's contracture
- Pre & Post Operative
- Cellulite & weight loss
- Pregnancy/Maternal care
- Sports injuries (strains, sprains, piriformis syndrome, low back pain)
Stretching
Pre + Post Natal
Stretching, or the elongation of tissue can be performed in a variety of ways, including passively and actively during the massage process.
Benefits of Stretching may include:
- Stimulates blood flow
- Increases joint range of motion
- Stimulates joint and tendon lubrication (synovial fluid secretion)
- Breaks up tissue adhesions and reduces adhesion formation
- Increases the resting length of the muscle
- Aids in the alignment of new scar tissue formation
- Reduces muscles spasm
- Can reduce next-day muscle soreness caused by trigger point therapy or myofascial techniques
Medical Massage
Pre + Post Natal
Pre + Post Natal
Medical Massage – also known as clinical or treatment massage – is the application of a specific treatment targeted at a specific, medically-diagnosed problem. There are several conditions where Medical Massage has effective results.
Some examples are:
- Sciatica
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Rotator cuff injury
- Constipation
- Fibromyalgia
- Plantar fasciitis
- TMJ
- Edema
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Automobile accident injuries
- Work-related injuries
- Range of motion issues
- Tendonitis
Pre + Post Natal
Pre + Post Natal
Pre + Post Natal
Prenatal Massage is an important part of prenatal care. It not only relieves pregnancy discomfort, but it also helps your body to do what is necessary in order to keep you and your baby healthy.
Here are a few things a prenatal massage can do for you:
- Reduce stress
- Relieve back, neck, and head pain
- Reduce swelling
- Alleviate cramps
- Lessen stress on weight-bearing joints
- Improve sleep quality
- Encourage blood and lymph circulation
- Minimize anxiety and depression associated with hormones
Prenatal massage isn’t just a one-time fix. Regular massages can provide continuous symptom relief throughout your pregnancy.
Post Natal Massage can assist your body as it finds its natural alignment, assisting with normal aches and pains, and to keep new mothers healthy and relaxed.
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