Life can be hard on your body. Everyday activities at work and play can create discomfort, pain or lack of mobility. We offer a range of massage services that address these issues and relieve and revitalize your whole being.
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- Relieve frozen shoulder
- Back issues
- Carpal tunnel
- Increase range of motion
- Improve vitality
- Decrease pain
- Other problems
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A comprehensive BODY MOVEMENT THERAPY
The first step will be to examine your musculature structure to determine how to best integrate stretching, flexing, and training correspondent muscle groups to work together. With the use of ‘muscle testing’ (applied kinesiology), the body will reveal how and where to work
The EXPERIENCE
Our clients experience the heightened performance through refined body awareness, proper warm-up and cool-down techniques, nutritional wellness, and other tips on sleep, meditation, and world-class training techniques.
BODYWORK SKILLS
- Medical/therapeutic massage
- Applied Kinesiology
- Sports massage
- Deep Tissue Massage
- Deep Muscle Massage
- Orthopedic Massage
- Injury Treatment
- Active Release Technique
- Trager
- Circulatory Massage
- Hydrotherapy
- Swedish Massage
- Hot Stone Massage
- Neuro-muscular Technique
- Myo-fascial Technique
- Lomi Lomi
- Relaxation Massage
- Cranio-sacral Level 1
Sports Massage
The sports massage actually came from the Swedish massage technique. Geared specifically to the athlete, this massage focuses on muscles that have seen a large degree of stress and use, often to the point of overuse. Normally, these are muscles that have seen repetitive and aggressive movement as a part of the overall sport or competition.
The sports massage is now recognized by many in the training industry as an accepted component to an overall regimen of training and competition. This means the athlete can enhance pre-competition and reduce the required recovery period, which means a better and more intensive training session after competition. Flexibility, a necessary component of any athletic completion, is also a part.
Many do not realize it, but the sports massage has certain characteristics that make it ideal for athletes. The targeting of the muscle and tendons within the body is key for athletic training. A study in 2010 in America found athletes who had massages before and after strength training saw a definite decrease in soreness after activity.
There are several key elements to sports massage. To better understand each of these, let’s look at them separately.
Motion and Flexibility:
Professional and superior athletes often over train and this leads to muscle rigidity. Sports massage can help relax overly tense muscles and provide additional flexibility. Used before a competition, it will relax the muscles for flexibility, improving performance.
Shortens Recovery Time:
Exercise and competition is stressful on the body. This will lead to injury if proper precautions are not taken. Sports massages are ideal to help the body deal with this stress and injury prevention. A proper massage increases blood flow and lymph fluid, both assisting in the body’s natural healing process, speeding waste removal and general health improvement. Swelling and inflammation associated with physical activity is also reduced. Scar tissue, normal from a severe injury, can be lessened with massage.
Supply of Oxygen and Nutrients:
Blood flow into muscles is vital to creating new tissue and increased strength and stamina. Massage increases blood flow for additional oxygen and nutrients.
Helps Eliminate By-Products of Exercise:
Lactic and uric acids are natural by-products of exercise. Each can be lessened with blood and lymph flow in the body and increase the waste output by a sports massage.
Psychological Benefits:
There is much to be said about psychology and sports. Many do not realize the value of a massage with sports and how a quality massage has more than just physical benefits. The body is only as strong as the mind, so having a strong mind that is relaxed and focused is a definite edge in highly competitive sports. A stressed athlete is not nearly as capable as one with a clear mind.
Reduces Pain:
A body in pain is a sign of overworked muscles and is not healthy. Massage increases blood and lymph fluid flow, thereby speeding the injury rehabilitation process. A massage also helps with pain from spasms and cramps, common with elite athletic training.