Treatment Massage

Our muscles have a lot of work to do. Even when we sleep our muscles are working. We usually take them for granted. We notice them primarily when they hurt. Muscles hurt to let us know that they are injured or are protecting something else. For instance a whiplash injury can pull muscles, tearing muscle fibers as well as create change in the spine causing some muscles to stretch and some to contract for a prolonged period resulting in pain and tenderness.

Each muscle is made up of many small muscle fibers. When fibers tear scar tissue is formed as they heal. Scar tissue can cause limitations on the mobility of the muscle as a whole and cause pain.

A treatment massage is usually focused on a specific area of pain and/or injury and the affecting areas. Using whiplash as an example again, a treatment session for a whiplash injury would consist of massaging the entire neck, shoulders and upper back, and in many cases the muscles around the collar bone.

Treatment massage may not be relaxing. Depending on how recent the trauma, the extent of the damage and other factors, it may actually be painful. Most often the pain will increase soon after the massage but subside and the client will feel relief from the pain they came into the session with within 24 hours.

Chronic pain may also be treated effectively with massage. Chronic pain typically will take deeper work and a longer period of treatment but over time can create a higher level of comfort and less pain.

Massage can work well with most other forms of health care. It can be especially effective in conjunction with chiropractic, physical therapy and acupuncture.

It will help the client in most physical trauma situations. If the area of trauma is unable to be worked on directly, the therapist will work on other parts of the body which may have been altered due to the injury or are compensating for the handicap.

If you are curious as to whether massage can help you, contact me for more individualized information. If I don’t feel I can help you, I may have a referral for you for another practitioner or another modality of healing. I welcome inquiries.

Some general guidelines to get the most out of a massage with me:

• If on pain medication wait at least four hours after taking medication to receive massage.
• If you have a cold, the flu, stomach upset, any kind of illness please inform me before arriving for your session. It may be beneficial to reschedule rather than increase your discomfort or exposing me to a possible illness. I will reschedule with no late cancellation fee due to illness.
• Inform me of any area of your body that you wish not to be included in the massage No explanation is necessary.
• Give me feedback as we go along. I encourage my clients to let me know if they feel too much discomfort or if a particular area being worked on is a good area to stay with.
• As is stated on the "Confidential Client Health Intake Form" it is your responsibility to inform me of any changes in your health or lifestyle which may have an effect on your health since your last session. Changes such as medications, injury, illness, stress-level increase/decrease, exercise increase/decrease, etc.

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