Massage Therapy

Whether your goal is to enhance athletic performance, improve posture, or decrease chronic pain, your massage therapy session may include a combination of several modalities. Some of these include Myofascial Therapy, Neuromuscular Therapy, and Swedish Massage Therapy.

Myofascial Therapy focuses, not on the muscles, but on their protective layer called fascia (also known as connective tissue). Muscles are contracting tissues that give the body and organs physical movement. The fascia surrounds the muscles, bones, and organs in the body. The fascia gives muscles their shape and the body its structure. The therapist applies slow, deep pressure at a 45 degree angle, feeling the movement of tissue below the touch. Myofascial Therapy increases resiliency, flexibility, balance, and awareness.

Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT) is a specific and scientific approach to muscular pain relief. NMT enhances the function of joints, muscles and biomechanics (movement) and it releases endorphins, the body’s own natural pain killers. It examines six physiological factors which may create or intensify pain: ischemia, trigger points, nerve entrapment/compression, postural distortions, nutrition, and emotional well-being.

Swedish Massage is the most commonly offered and best known type of massage. It was developed by a Swedish physiologist, Henri Peter Ling at the University of Stockholm in 1812. It uses a firm but gentle pressue to improve the circulation, ease muscle aches and tension, improve flexibility and create relaxation.