Massage Therapy In Ottawa
Massage therapy is the manipulation of soft tissues and joints used for the treatment and prevention of physical dysfunction.
Catherine Street Chiropractic and Massage recommends massage therapy in combination with your chiropractic care.
Massage therapy has firmly established its role as a clinically-oriented health option as it achieves undeniable results.
Massage therapy can be preventative or restorative. Helping to maintain, rehabilitate and augment physical function, or to relieve pain.
Massage can help alleviate the soft tissue discomfort associated with everyday stress, muscular overuse and many chronic pain syndromes.
If employed early enough after accidents involving trauma and injury, massage therapy can greatly reduce the development of painful muscular patterning.
Massage Techniques
A wide range of hands-on techniques are used during massage. These include effleurage (gliding strokes), petrissage (lifting and kneading) and percussion. These techniques stretch and loosen connective tissues and muscles, affect movements that assist the action of the joints, and combine to increase function and range of motion thereby reducing muscle tension. Click here to see what massage techniques we use here at Catherine Street Chiropractic and Massage.
Massage therapy may include other modalities or specific techniques, such as:
- Hydrotherapy (the use of heat and cold)
- Trigger point therapy
- Myofascial therapy (connective tissue work)
- Deep tissue massage
- Rhythmic mobilizations
- Manual lymphatic drainage
- Hot stones
- Remedial exercises
What Can Massage Therapy Do For You?
Incorporate Registered Massage Therapy to your health regime to help relieve:
- Inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and tendinitis
- Stress and associated conditions
- Headaches and migraines
- Muscle spasms, strains and sprains
- Back pain
- Repetitive strain injury
- Circulatory and Respiratory problems
- Pregnancy discomfort
- Post-injury and post surgical discomfort
- and many other conditions
Benefits of Massage:
- Increases range of motion and flexibility
- Decreases scar tissue and adhesion
- Increases circulation
- Decreases swelling and edema
- Accelerates the healing process
- Aids with pain management
- Reduces stress, anxiety, and depression
- Improves alertness and sense of well being
Massage can be used to treat the following conditions:
- Low back pain
- Migraines and tension headaches
- Tendinitis
- Sprains and strains
- Neck and shoulder tension
- Frozen shoulder
- Athletic injuries
- Shin splints
- Pregnancy
- Fibromyalgia
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Muscle spasms
- Scar tissue and adhesion
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
- Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Postural dysfunctions
- Stress, anxiety and depression
- Whiplash
- Respiratory problems
- And many more…
Frequently Asked Questions About Massage Therapy
We are often asked questions about massage therapy like, Should I eat before a massage? Do I talk or not talk? Find out the answers to these and more.
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