Massage Therapy Session Goals.
Book an appropriate massage therapy session with the correct focus and length of service. Often, massage therapy is used to relieve muscular aches and pains or neuromuscular / musculoskeletal conditions. Massage can be an important part of your fitness routine, identifying muscular imbalances and postural deviations, releasing sources of muscular tension, and offering assisted stretching to maintain flexibility and prevent injury. Finally, massage therapy also offers much needed relaxation and rest.
Swedish Full Body Massage
Appropriate for: Overall relaxation or muscle tension relief.
50 minutes is the minimum time needed to address the entire body with the gliding, relaxing strokes used in a Swedish Massage Therapy session. Think of this like a quick power nap.This is the most natural length of time for a strictly relaxing massage with no hopes of musculoskeletal therapeutic benefits.
80 minutes allows for full attention paid to the back, glutes, legs, feet, hands, arms, shoulders, and neck. 50 minutes doesn’t leave enough time for everything. If you’d like a full-body experience with some extra focus, plan to book an 80-minute session.
Therapeutic Massage
If you’ve been training for an athletic event, working out heavy, have recently undergone a lot of work/stress/travel, or are recovering from an injury, you’re probably wanting a therapeutic massage. Use the same principals for determining the length of your therapeutic massage as you would for your full body or targeted massage.
50 minutes can provide a therapeutic full body massage but will normally not include much work on the arms.
80 minutes is ideal for a full body therapeutic massage when you are moderately sore and expecting some immediate pain relief.
110 minutes is ideal for a full body therapeutic massage when you are experiencing more than your usual level of soreness and want your entire body worked on.
Targeted Massage
Appropriate for: Specific musculoskeletal complaints. Most chronic pain can’t be relieved in a single massage session. Some tension will clear up in as little as one session, however, often with deep tissue, repeated manual therapy. A single body region will be the focus: upper or lower body, back, arms, neck, shoulders, etc.
- 30 minutes offers maximal therapeutic benefit for a specific and small area of discomfort.
- 50, 80, or 110-minute sessions allow time to address one or more entire body regions: back, shoulders, hips, knees, feet, neck, arms and hands. Allow at least 30 minutes for each region
Therapeutic Stretching
Therapeutic stretching involves assisted stretching of the major muscle groups: hamstrings, quads, calves, adductors, upper traps, IT bands, forearms, pecs.
30 minutes is sufficient for an overall stretch session and is best done after your massage: Only stretch muscles that are already warmed up.
A 60-minute stretch session can give you more complete muscle tension relief. With 60 minute stretch sessions, I’m also able to include PNF technique (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) which can improve your range of motion and thus help prevent injury.
Massage Therapy Upgrades
Pay only for what is important to you while making sure you receive all the massage therapy amenities you expect.
Hot Towel Service
Hot towels placed on your feet prior to foot massage. A roll of hot towels under your during the supine or ‘face up’ part of your session. A lovely touch that makes your massage all the more refreshing.
Aromatherapy Focus Upgrade
Go beyond the standard (yet wonderful and calming!) lavender essential oil with a custom blend of essential oils applied with a carrier oil during your massage. Inhale and learn about the oils being used and their restorative properties. Calming: . Energizing: , Healing:
Basic KinesioTape Application
Advanced KinesioTape Application
15-minutes of Assisted Stretching
Customized Exercise and Stretching Consulation
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