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About Massage
 What Is Massage Therapy?
Massage therapy is the assessment and manipulation of soft
tissues and joints of the body to effect a therapeutic
response in the treatment and prevention of physical dysfunction.
It can be preventative or restorative, helping to maintain,
rehabilitate, augment physical function or relieve pain.
Massage therapy has firmly established its role as a clinically-oriented
health option used to relieve a variety of discomforts because
it achieves undeniable results.
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.
The therapeutic process is a partnership between client and
therapist, working together towards common and realistic goals.
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, effect movements that assist the action of the joints,
and combine to increase function and range of motion thereby
reducing muscle tension.
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 stone massage therapy
- Craniosacral therapy
- Remedial exercises.
What Massage Therapy Can Do For You
Add a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) to your health care
team to help relieve:
- Inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and tendinitis
- Stress relief and associated conditions
- Headaches and migraines
- Muscle and related conditions such as spasms, strains
and sprains
- Back pain
- Repetitive strain injury
- Circulatory and Respiratory problems
- Pregnancy and labour discomfort
- Post-injury and post surgical rehabilitation
- and many other conditions.
Benefits of Massage:
- Increase Range of Motions and Flexibility
- Decrease Scar Tissue and Adhesions
- Increases Circulation
- Decreases Swelling and Edema
- Restores Function
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- Speeds Healing
- Pain Management and Control
- Reduces Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
- Improves Alertness and Sense of Well Being
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Massage can be used to treat the following conditions:
- Low Back Pain
- Migraines and Tension Headaches
- Tendonitis
- Sprains and Strains
- Neck and Shoulder Tension
- Frozen Shoulder
- Athletic Injuries
- Shin Splints
- Pregnancy
- Fibromyalgia
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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- Muscle Spasms
- Scar Tissue and Adhesions
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
- TemporoMandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Postural Dysfunctions
- Stress, Anxiety and Depression
- Whiplash
- Respiratory Problems
- And Many More…
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