FAQs
- What is Swedish (Relaxation) Massage?
- What is Sports Massage?
- What is Corrective Massage?
- What is Pregnancy Massage?
- What is Deep Tissue Massage?
- What is Myofascial Release?
- What is Passive Stretching?
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What is Swedish (Relaxation) Massage?
Swedish massage is the most well-known massage modality today. It uses gentle gliding strokes to provide basic muscle relaxation, to increase circulation, and to decrease the heart rate.
Swedish massage feels good, is relaxing and invigorating. It affects the nerves, muscles, glands, and circulation, while promoting health and well-being. The main purpose of Swedish massage is to increase the oxygen flow in the blood and release toxins from the muscles.
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What is Sports Massage?
Sports Massage includes pre-event, post-event and maintenance massage. Most of the techniques in Sports Massage are similar to Swedish work, but the pace of Sports Massage is faster since the goal is to invigorate or recover rather than to relax.
The goal of Pre-event sports massage is to get blood flowing, warm up tissues, and to stretch relevant muscles. Post-event sports massage concentrates on moving waste products out of specific areas (e.g. the leg musculature for events like running or cycling). Maintenance sports massage combines the techniques of both pre and post-event but with deeper, more specific work, and typically lasts longer than both pre and post event sessions.
Overall, Sports massage prepares athlete for peak performance, drains away fatigue, helps relieve swelling, reduces muscle tension, promotes flexibility and helps prevent injuries. -
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What is Corrective Massage?
Medical or Corrective massage is designed to address specific pathologies or muscle pain caused by injury due to accidents, sport related activities or simple over exertion or repetitive injury strain.
The following is a list of common conditions that can be improved or eliminated with Corrective Massage:
- Trigger Points
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Sciatica
- Tennis Elbow
- Frozen Shoulder
- Shin splints
- TMJ Dysfunction
- Tendonitis
- Scoliosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Osteoarthritis
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What is Pregnancy Massage?
Massage provided during pregnancy is soothing and offers undeniable physical benefits to the mother. No deep or vigorous techniques are used. Regular massage can bring great relief to muscle aches and discomfort, particularly during the second and third trimesters, and enhances sleep while calming an active baby. Postpartum massage helps to restore muscle tone in the abdomen and to reposition the pelvis. Permission for massage should be obtained from the doctor or midwife.
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What is Deep Tissue Massage?
Deep Tissue is a massage technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas, either following or going across the fibers of the muscles, tendons and fascia.
A Deep tissue massage is both corrective and therapeutic as it breaks up and eliminates scar tissue and relaxes and sooths muscles.
Deep Tissue Massage may cause some slight discomfort during or after the massage. However, you should feel better than ever within a day or two. Because many toxins are released, it's important to drink plenty of water after a deep-tissue session to help eliminate these toxins from the body.
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What is Myofascial Release?
Myofascial Release is a technique for stretching the fascia (connective tissue) and releasing bonds between fascia, integument, muscles, and bones, with the goal of eliminating pain, increasing range of motion and balancing the body. The fascia is manipulated, directly or indirectly, allowing the connective tissue fibers to reorganize themselves in a more flexible, functional fashion
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What is Passive Stretching?
Passive stretches are those performed by the therapist, without assistance from the client. These stretches are often incorporated in a massage to facilitate relaxation and elongation of muscles and joints.
