Here’s what you may already know: Massage relieves stress, improves circulation, and leaves you feeling euphoric.
Here are a number of Massage Benefits you might be less familiar with:
• Decreases blood pressure, heart rate and pulse rate
• Reduces scar formation
• Decreases pain
• Increases levels of dopamine and serotonin thereby reducing depression
• Increases flexibility
• Tonifies weak muscles
• Promotes fracture healing
• Increases mineral retention of bones
• Relieves muscles tension, restrictions, tightness, stiffness, soreness, and spasms
• Increases range of motion and improves balance and posture
• Reduces muscles fatigue
• Improves motor skills
• Reduces cortisol levels
• Increases red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets resulting in greater oxygen saturation in the blood
• Reduces lymphoma
• Reduces respiration rate
• Decreases asthma attacks
• Increases fluid release from the lungs
• Relieves constipation, colic and gas
• Stimulates digestion
• Promotes detoxification
We offer a variety of massage techniques and therapies to suit your comfort and needs, or the comfort and needs of those you love. Whether you purchase a massage for yourself or someone else, it’s a genuine gift of love. Ask about our gift certificates.
Lymphatic Drainage
The lymphatic system is part of the circulatory system. It is a secondary pathway to the heart, parallel to the venous system. The lymphatic system is the body’s waste disposal. It collects excess tissue fluid, bacteria, damaged cells, and protein molecules that are too large or too toxic to return directly to the blood system through the capillary walls. These materials are transported through the lymph vessels, are filtered through the lymph nodes and eventually rejoin the blood near the junction of the subclavian and jugular veins. Lymphoid tissue also produce lymphocytes (white blood cells) that are an important component of the body’s immune system and play a major role in healing wounds and fighting infections.
Lymph circulation is vital to life. When it slows down, waste products can accumulate and stagnate. This affects normal metabolism and produces a feeling of fatigue. The natural movements of the body such as walking, breathing, and exercising aid the circulation of lymph. Skillfully applied massage more fully augments the circulation process.
Lymphatic drainage massage gently targets the lymphatic system just under the skin. The therapist uses rhythmic techniques working towards the mother nodes found in the clavicle, armpit, and groin areas. Correct lymphatic massage accelerates the flow of lymph, helping to rid the body of toxins and waste materials. Lymphatic draining massage promotes the balance of the body’s internal chemistry and enhances the function of the immune system.
Lymphatic drainage can be affective to activate fluid circulation and reduce swelling, to promote tissue regeneration, to stimulate the immune system (preventative), to help with arthritis, stress, and fatigue, and to help with headaches and sinusitis.
Myofascial Trigger Point
Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy is a hands-on treatment that involves identifying trigger points and releasing them to restore alignment and proper body mechanics.
The word “Myofascial” is comprised of “myo” meaning muscle tissue, and “fascial” refers to the connective tissue that ties all of our muscles, bones and other tissues together. When a muscle is stressed or dysfunctional – due to injury, repetitive strain, stress, lifting heavy loads, poor posture, or inactivity – it pulls the bone structure out of alignment. When the body is out of alignment, other muscles compensate in an attempt to stabilize resulting in soreness and often weakness. As a result, correcting these problems often requires working on areas far from the location where pain is experienced. These stressed muscles form tender, often painful trigger points or knots that develop in tight bands of muscle and create poor body mechanics causing pain, dysfunction, and often chronic problems such as bulging discs, sciatic pain, back pain, headache, frozen shoulders, plantar fasciitis.
When a trigger point is located, sustained pressure is applied to gradually decrease the pain and allow the muscle to relax again, and ultimately restore function, range of motion, and good biomechanics over a series of treatments. Chiropractic manipulation that does not address rebalancing and restoring good biomechanics will result in just a temporary correction. We empower our patients with self-care techniques that help them manage chronic conditions between visits and beyond our initial course of treatment. Our average patient is seen for 8 treatments, often feeling significantly better after the first session.
