What is Medical Massage Therapy?
Medical Massage Therapy is the application of a specific treatment targeted to specific soft tissue problems and supportive of many common muscular pains & stiffness. Medical massage therapy addresses pain patterns, trauma and acute or chronic injuries. The bodywork styles utilized for such therapeutic intervention are either deep tissue or lighter bodywork that assists in diffusing trauma and chronically defended or restricted areas. Often with persistent and lingering injuries and pain, compensation patterns in the muscles & connective tissue get established, even embedded in fibrotic tissue or trigger points from inflammation cycles.
Specialized Deep Tissue Bodywork is Effective for:
- Shoulder tenderness & discomfort, common with long hours on computer
- Tightness, limited range of motion in neck & mid traps
- Low back stiffness, achiness & a variety of other pains in back
- Reoccurring headaches at the top of the neck or temple area Also migraines, one sided headaches that are more intense
- Persistent hip joint & buttock discomfort
- Reoccurring weakness or sharp knee pain with walking up or down stairs/ when running or engaged with sports.
- Wear & tear on the fingers, thumbs, heels & hip joints/ sensitivity to weather changes: all initial signs of arthritis
- Numbness & tingling sensations in the neck, upper shoulder area, arms or hands.
A Call for Wellness Massage
Our daily lives often leave us feeling alienated from ourselves and others. Stress from work, family, juggling appointments, forfeiting many of our personal needs take their toll over time. Chronic tension gradually finds its way into our bodies leaving us feeling tired and depleted. Wellness massage for rebalancing our life force is one of the most effective ways to do self-care. Kris’s seasoned experience utilizing 20 styles of massage, will custom tailor her vitalizing massage to each individual needs. It is a wonderful gift of self-love to do self-care and get a tune up for your body and mind. Choose from many styles of Oriental bodywork, Thai massage, craniosacral & myofascial release, pregnancy massage & Thai Massage.
Medical Massage therapy is supportive of the following tendinomuscular conditions:
- Many types of spinal & low back discomfort
- Sciatica / both acute & chronic flare ups
- Tension headaches & Migraines/concussions
- Chronic sustained injuries that continue to
have limited range of motion & dysfunction - Knee & hip joint pain dysfunctions
- Rotator cuff shoulder tears & Frozen shoulder
- Plantar fasciitis/ bone heel spurs/ feet neuromas
- Repetitive sprains & strains
- Arthritis pain (osteo & rheumatoid)
- Myofascia pain/ muscular spasming/ trigger points/ adhesions
- Neuropathies of the feet from diabetes/ chemotherapy
- Post surgery rehabilitation / reduction of scar tissue
- Strengthening the recovery of fractured bones
- And many more common conditions that the body/ mind endure with work related accidents, sports injuries, computer overload & sedentary lives.