Massage therapy
The manual manipulation of superficial layers of skin, muscles, and connective tissue to enhance function while facilitate healing by promoting circulation. We offer 30 minute to 1 hour clinical table massages. And I do mean clinical. What we lack in incents, wind chime soundtracks, and candle lit rooms we surpass with our effective clinical therapy. Our massages are in no way a typical spa massages. Our therapists are trained as Clinical Massage Therapists that follow specific treatment protocol which require utilizing deep tissue massaging techniques that have been prescribed for a particular issue. We emphasize this point to make our patients aware that this is an assertive manual treatment of soft tissue issues.
We use hypoallergenic lotions
Patients can undress to their level of comfort
Therapists communicate with patients at all times to use the right amount of pressure
Majority of time is used to treat problem area but can work on other areas if time permits
Complimentary bottles of water are always available after the treatment.
Acupuncture
We use needling, acupressure, and cupping techniques to reduce a patient’s pain sensation, increasing circulation and therefore decreasing soreness and swelling in the treatment area.
Here is my best explanation of what a major effect of acupuncture is:
Imagine hitting your thumb with a hammer. Instinctively you’ll end up doing something like squeezing your injured thumb or shaking it vigorously to dampen the damage done. So along with the original “hammered thumb pain” you send your brain a sensation of pressure (squeezing) and/or proprioception impulses (movement sensation). All of these sensations from the same area share a path on their way up to the brain. This path to the brain can only handle an impulse at a time so it’s easy to see that the hammered thumb impulse might have a hard time getting to the brain if the path is crowded with other impulses. This is the basis of the Gate control theory of acupuncture. Acupuncture is also theorized to release a hormone response and also initiate an inflammatory process that encourages the body healing processes cells to the area and circulation to increase.