Massage Therapy
Massage Therapy helps to ease your pain and enhances health.
 Consumers have felt for a long time that massage helps promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle. They have continued to seek massage therapy to improve their overall wellness and health. And physicians and other healthcare providers are recommending massage therapy to their patients as a supplement to traditional health care.
For low Back Pain: Continued research has shown that effects of massage therapy help in treating common ailments such as chronic low back pain. A study conducted by Beth Israel Deaconess Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education and the Center for Health Studies in Seattle concluded that therapeutic massage was an effective treatment for providing long-lasting benefits for patients with chronic low back pain. Researchers hope to continue their study to determine which components of the massage therapy session contribute to its effectiveness.
Easing Pain After By-Pass Surgery: A pilot study conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles revealed that massage therapy reduces pain and muscle spasms in patients who have undergone heart bypass surgery when they are treated after the surgery in the hospital.
Boosting Immune Function: During stressful
periods, the effectiveness of the body’s immune system is reduced. Research studies indicate that massage can increase the immune system’s activity level of the body’s natural “killer cells” and decrease the number of T-cells, which improves the body’s
immune function overall.
Physical and emotional coping for breast cancer survivors: Research
shows that therapeutic massage is an effective complementary
treatment to traditional medical care for women who have undergone
a lumpectomy, mastectomy or breast reconstruction. Before surgery,
m assage will relax muscle tissue and increase the flow of lymph.
After surgery, massage reduces pain and swelling by helping
to disperse build up of lymphatic fluid. Massage helps women
to reconnect with their bodies after this type of invasive
surgery.
Massage is an effective complement to medical care because it can be used for pain management and pain relief.
Massage can be used effectively to promote, maintain, and restore health, all of which aid in disease prevention. All of our licensed massage therapists are skilled in evaluating the needs of each individual in order to create a treatment plan. In addition to feeling good, massage also reduces heart rate and blood pressure, increases circulation and lymph flow, helps to relieve pain, increases range of motion, strengthens the immune system and decreases muscles spasms.
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Therapeutic massage can help a wide range of medical conditions such as:
- Anxiety and stress
- Arthritis
- Bronchitis/asthma
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Depression
- Decreased joint mobility
- Digestive disorders
- Headaches
- Insomnia
- Pregnancy
- Reduction in scar tissue formation
- Sports injuries
- Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ)
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European/Swedish Massage
This treatment involves manipulation of the soft tissues of the body by combining various movements, such as stroking, kneading and friction while using oils, creams, or lotions. Additionally, hot or cold therapy and active or passive joint movement may be used.
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Oriental Massage
This bodywork therapy is based on an ancient healing system which focuses on the balance and movement of energy (Qi) within the body. The Oriental technique affects muscles, craniosacral , and all of the major systems of the body.
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Amma
No oils are used but the therapist may apply liniments if necessary. Hand and finger pressure is used to stimulate pressure points along the meridians of the body.
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Medical Massage
This therapy is for specific physical conditions. Many different types of techniques and modalities are used to help release the chronic and acute areas of tension and pain.
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Reflexology
A form of compression massage based on the idea that stimulation of specific pressure points on the feet and hands, affects other areas and organs of the body.
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Sports Massage
This treatment is based on Swedish massage, incorporating a wide range of techniques such as deep tissue, compression, cross fiber, trigger point therapy and stretching. Since each sport and athletic event uses muscle groups in different ways, this therapy is designed to address the areas relevant to the individual's athletic activity.
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Pregnancy Massage
This is excellent for backaches, edema, and helping to increase the flow of oxygen, blood and nutrients to the mother and child. The treatment combines relaxing and soothing strokes to help alleviate the stress and strains of childbearing.
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Hot Stone Massage
Stones have a natural ability to retain temperatures, which makes this treatment very relaxing and therapeutic as well. Smooth river stones are heated in water then applied to the body with soothing and penetrating strokes which result in relaxed, tension free muscles.
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Muscle Release Technique
This is an injury therapy that combines compression, extension, movement and breath as a tool for the therapist to provide, in many cases, relief from pain. Scar tissue is broken up, muscle is lengthened, and muscle memory is restored, which gives relief from pain immediately. This will help people suffering from various problems such as sciatica, low back pain, frozen shoulder carpal tunnel syndrome and all over pain syndrome. |
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