Massage Therapy
How can massage therapy help me?
It can help lower stress, ease tension in your muscles and make you feel more relaxed. It also has a therapeutic effect on the body and optimizes general health and well-being by treating the muscular, nervous and circulatory systems. Massage therapy can help develop, maintain, and improve physical function as well as relive or prevent physical dysfunction and/or pain in the body.
What is Massage Therapy?
Massage therapy is hands on manipulation of the muscles and soft tissues in your body. This helps blood circulation which helps heal damaged muscles after exercising or an injury. Massage Therapists use many a number of different techniques depending on symptoms and physical condition. Massage Therapists will propose a personalized treatment plan for you based on an initial assessment and health history.
Conditions commonly treated using massage therapy
- Muscle tension and spasm
- Pregnancy and labour support
- Anxiety and depression
- Asthma and Emphysema
- Back, leg, and neck pain
- Carpal tunnel syndrome (repetitive strain)
- Chronic Fatigue syndrome
- Dislocations
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures and edema
- Post-surgical rehabilitation
- Strains and sprains
- Sports injuries
- Stroke
- Stress and stress related conditions
- Temporomandibular Disorders
- Tendinitis
- Whiplash
- Inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and bursitis
- Headaches
- Kyphosis and Scoliosis
- Insomnia
- Parkinson’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Palliative care