Sports Massage (Back to Top)
Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduce pains and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body’s natural immune function.
Deep Tissue Massage (Back to Top)
Deep Tissue Massage is a form of bodywork that aims to relieve tension in the deeper layers of tissue in the body. Deep Tissue Massage is a highly effective method for releasing chronic stress areas due to misalignment, repetitive motions, and past lingering injuries. Due to the nature of the deep tissue work, open communication during the session is crucial to make sure you don’t get too uncomfortable. Keep in mind that soreness is pretty common after the treatment, and that plenty of water should be ingested to aid with the flushing and removal of toxins that will have been released from the deep tissue during the session.
Acute Injury Care (Back to Top)
Serious acute injuries such as whiplash, sprains and even broken bones respond extremely well to specific massage techniques such as lymphatic facilitation. These techniques do not use heavy pressure and are aimed primarily at minimizing secondary inflammation and muscle spasm resulting from the initial injury.
Incorporating appropriate massage into your treatment as soon after the injury as possible will speed up your recovery and improve your oveall outcome. By reducing recovery time, you will be back to your usual activities more quickly and with less risk of further injury.
Myofascial Release (Back to Top)
Myofascial release is an extremely effective technique which we incorporate into most massage sesions. It is closer to Rolfing than it is to regular massage techniques in that it primarily addresses the connective tissue which surrounds muscle fibers. Most soft-tissue adhesions are actually found in the connective tissue and by addressing them appropriately you will experience a faster, more complete recovery from many chronic issues.