We provide the following massage services:
• Sports Massage
Sports Massage is a special form of massage and is typically used before, during, and after athletic events. The purpose of the massage is to prepare the athlete for peak performance, to drain away fatigue, to relieve swelling, to reduce muscle tension, to promote flexibility and to prevent injuries. Sports massage can help prevent those niggling injuries that so often get in the way of performance and achievement, whether a person is an athlete or a once a week jogger.
What Are The Benefits of Sports Massage?
Sports massage has many benefits. In addition to FEELING GOOD, sports massage reduces the heart rate and blood pressure, increases blood circulation and lymph flow, reduces muscle tension, improves flexibility, and relieves pain. Each sport and athletic event uses muscle groups in a different way. Sports Massage can also include pre-event, post-event and maintenance techniques that promote greater athletic endurance and performance, lessen chances of injury and reduce recovery time. We also specialize in pregnancy massage and recommend treatment throughout the course of pregnancy for optimal results.
• Pregnancy Massage
What Are The Benefits of Pregnancy Massage?
There are many benefits to pregnancy massage. Not only does it alleviate tension and stiffness of muscle, ankle, leg and back pain, but also increases energy to the mother and improves nourishment to the baby.
• Greater Circulation - Improving Baby’s Oxygen Supply
• Promotes Relaxation and Deep Breathing
• Reduces Swelling in Hands and Feet and Prevention of Varicose Veins
• Reduces Fatigue
• Relieves Stress on Weight Bearing Joints
• Alleviates Neck and Back Pain caused by Muscle Imbalance or Weakness
• Assistance in Maintaining Proper Posture
• Improves Skin Elasticity
• Helps Stabilize Stress Hormones Levels
• Faster Recovery of Energy and Muscle Tone after Childbirth
Taking time for your self during pregnancy can be emotionally uplifting. The nurturing touch of massage allows pregnant moms to unwind and feel beautiful, relaxed, healthy and comforted during a period of added physical and sometimes emotional stress.
Postpartum Massage
Postpartum massage focuses on helping to restore the body to its pre-pregnancy condition and to address the demands of breast feeding and of course, the physical and emotional stresses of carrying and caring for a newborn. Massage therapy helps to speed a woman’s recovery by restoring tone to the muscular and connective tissue, realigns body weight to its original distribution, tones overstretched areas of the skin, increases circulation which assists in the removal of excess fluids, reduces swelling and nourishes the body. As with all massage, postpartum massage eases muscle tension and stress from the overall responsibilities that correspond with caring for a newborn. Sleep deprivation, hormonal changes, and postpartum blues can all be reduced through massage.
• A.R.T. (Active Release Technique)
What is A.R.T? (Active Release Technique)
ART is a soft tissue movement based massage technique that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. Often times injury is due to overuse in daily life, or sudden sharp movements. Over-used muscles (and other soft tissues) change in three important ways:
• acute conditions (pulls, tears, collisions, etc),
• accumulation of small tears (micro-trauma)
• not getting enough oxygen (hypoxia).
Each of these factors can cause your body to produce tough, dense scar tissue in the affected area. This scar tissue binds up and ties down tissues that need to move freely. As scar tissue builds up, muscles become shorter and weaker, tension on tendons causes tendonitis, and nerves can become trapped. This can cause reduced range of motion, loss of strength, and pain. If a nerve is trapped you may also feel tingling, numbness, and weakness.