MODALITIES

INTEGRATIVE MASSAGE

A customized massage specifically designed to target your specific needs by incorporating multiple massage modalities. Each session begins with an assessment of your current state and your short- and long-term goals for your massage.  Your pre- and post-session consultation involve postural assessment, gait observation, muscle testing, and range of motion testing.  We will use these assessments to identify which modalities will most benefit your session and to measure progress and achievement of your short- and long-term goals. I guarantee that you will walk away feeling better than when you came in!

Please bring work out clothing you have ease of mobility with.

MYOFASCIAL RELEASE

Fascia is the connective tissue that covers all muscles, organs, and skeletal structures of the body. 

 Benefits include:

  • targeted toward a single body segment
  • opening connective tissue
  • eliminating pain
  • increasing range of motion
  • rebalancing the entire body

TRIGGER POINT THERAPY

Trigger points are hyperirritable spots, or knots, that radiate local tenderness to broader areas, sometimes distant from the point itself.

Benefits include:

  • relief from tension related muscle strain
  • decreased trigger point referral patterns
  • greater mobility
  • released muscle irritation 

SPORTS MASSAGE

Designed for highly active people who engage in intense sports and activities that can often lead to injuries both in long and short term.

Benefits include:

  • recognizing imbalance
  • reduced pain
  • relaxing the mind
  • increased flexibility
  • improved recovery rates
  • can be utilized for pre-, post-, and inter-event needs

ACTIVE ISOLATED STRETCHING

Developed by Aaron Mattes, Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) is a dynamic system for improving your flexibility and overall well-being. Stretching your muscles not only restores a relaxed state of contraction in the tissue, it helps to retrain the body’s proprioceptors and muscle length after specific work to loosen tight or congested tissue. It’s the icing on the cake to really embody the reset released tissue.

CONTEMPORARY WESTERN MASSAGE

Also known as Swedish Massage, this therapeutic style of bodywork combines oils or lotions with an array of strokes such as rolling, gliding, kneading and percussion to help improve relaxation.

Benefits include:

  • relief from aches and pains
  • decreased levels of stress
  • enhanced mental clarity
  • greater flexibility

DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE

Commonly using slower, more-forceful strokes to target the deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue, commonly to help with muscle damage from injuries.

  • Relief from muscular soreness
  • Restore function and movement

ACE MASSAGE CUPPING

Massage cupping creates a vaccuum pressure and facilitates a decompression or a lifting sensation.  This techique is a very effective for relaxation, circulation and for aggressive releases.  

  • Pain reduction
  • Athletic performance enhancment
  • Release tight contracted muscles 
  • Lymph drainage

CHAIR MASSAGE

Seated sessions occur in an ergonomic chair and is done over clothing.

 Benefits include:

  • shorter, portable sessions in the home or workplace
  • convenience in a busy schedule
  • relief from aches and pains
  • decreased levels of stress
  • enhanced mental clarity
  • greater flexibility

TABLE THAI

Also known as, Thai Yoga Massage, moves the body through yoga-like poses and stretches without doing any of the work of a traditional yoga class.

Benefits include:

  • fully dressed session
  • decreased levels of stress
  • relief from aches and pains
  • greater flexibility

SELF CARE MOVEMENT EDUCATION

This is a care plan for you to take home and activly participate in your health.  Playful daily postural practices to facilitate better whole body health.  There is no substitute for a therapeutic integrative Massage session.  However your commitment to some simple daily practices can be a sustainable progressive way to actively enjoy your whole body health.

MEDICAL MASSAGE

“Medical massage is performed with the intent of improving conditions or pathologies that have been diagnosed by a physician; a wide variety of modalities or procedures are utilized to focus the treatment based on the diagnosed condition.”

“This involves therapeutic assessment, manipulation, and movement of the locomotor soft tissues to reduce or eliminate pain or dysfunction. A unique multidisciplinary approach is utilized to restore structural balance throughout the body, which allows focus on prevention and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal dysfunctions, chronic pain and sports injuries. Primary modalities include functional assessment, myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, scar tissue mobilization techniques, neuromuscular re-education, PNF stretching, strengthening, and specific client home-care protocols.”

SWEDISH MASSAGE

Swedish Massage is a very relaxing and therapeutic style of bodywork. It combines oils or lotion with an array of strokes such as rolling, kneading, and percussion to help the body improve its circulation. The benefits of this type of bodywork are wide-ranging and include relief from aches and pains, decreased stress levels in the body, enhanced mental clarity, improved appearance, and greater flexibility.

KINESIOLOGY TAPING

Using RockTape as an adjunct to massage is like using magic.  It acts like a pair of hands on your body after you leave the massage table for up to 5 days.  I also sell RockTape at my office.

“More specifically, it runs interference on pain. Ever whack your shin and rub it, and suddenly realize you feel better? Kinesio tape on the skin can interfere with painful signals which are directed to the brain.”

“When the signals arriving to the brain are altered, it does not produce the sensation of pain. When kinesiology tape is properly applied, many of our customers call it “magic” or think that it fixed their injury instantly. In fact, it helps to change how your body interprets pain, turning down the pain “volume” that your body hears.”

“When Kinesio tape is applied to the skin, it has a microscopic lifting effect underneath the skin and between the many layers. This allows the by-products created by inflammation to be removed more quickly.”

ROCKTAPE VIDEOS

To learn more about how Rocktape works, click here.

For instructional videos on how to use Rocktape to address your specific needs in between sessions, click here.  

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