We provide the following massage services:

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.

Chiropractic

Don't forget to ask for your neck and back crackies with your massage. It's the perfect touch to a job well done! ...And...it's included in our same great price!!

What Are The Benefits of Sports Massage?

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a light-touch manual approach that enhances the body’s natural healing capabilities. For nearly 30 years is has been shown to be effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and loss of function. CST is useful as both a primary treatment method and combined with other traditional or complementary techniques.

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.

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.

Laser Therapy

The word "LASER" is an accronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Laser Therapy or "photobiomodulation", is the use of specific wavelengths of light (red and near infrared) to create therapeutic effects. What health problems have shown benefits from Laser Therapy?

The laser works by creating vasodilatation, bringing in oxygen to the cells. It stimulates the lymphatic system, pulling edema and inflammation from the area. ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) production is stimulated in the cells helping them have the energy to function normally. The pain reflex is broken, offering immediate relief of pain. These effects include improved healing time, pain reduction, increased circulation and decreased swelling.   Class IV lasers can penetrate over 4 inches into the deep musculoskeletal tissue. The number of treatments required depends on the nature of the problem and the length of time the patient has been affected by it. We have seen total resolution of some problems with as little as one treatment. Chronic and/or deep-seated conditions may take as many as 10 treatments.  There are no known side effects from laser therapy.

Soft Tissue Injuries

Tendinitis

Back and Neck Pain
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Myofascical Trigger Points
Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow)
Sprains, Strains
Repetitive Strain Injuries
Chondromalacia Patellae
Plantar Fascitis

Degenerative Joint Conditions

Rheumatoid Arthritis
Osteoarthritis

Neurogenic Pain

Herpes Zoster (Shingles)
Post-traumatic Injury
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Fibromyalgia
Diabetic Neuropathy

Chronic Non-Healing Wounds

Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Burns

What does research demonstrate:

Injuries treated with laser therapy heal faster
Laser Therapy has a strengthening effect on tissue repair
Laser Therapy improves blood flow & lymphatic drainage
It is an effective means of relief for many pain syndromes
It can improve immune response