Stress

Stress comes into our lives in many forms. Relationship challenges, traumatic life events, or maybe just to much responsibility.

Whatever the cause it can have the same effect on our bodies. It slows the restorative processes, decreases the bodies ability to assimilate food, raises blood pressure, overworks the adrenal glands among other things, yet what we all notice is the muscle tension and areas of pain.

Headaches are a common result of stress, along with tight neck and shoulder muscles and strain on areas of the body that have been injured in the past.

If this condition sounds familiar to you, massage can help your whole body get back on track. It can be an excellent tool to reduce tension and pain. It can support your body in the natural restorative processes to restoring peace and a sense of well being.

I have seen many clients benefit from massage in this way in my practice as well as receiving massage personally and enjoying these benefits.

Chronic and Repetitive Strain

Chronic pain can be brought on over a period of time. It can greatly limit the daily activities of the individual suffering from this condition.

When a person's pain arises directly to their muscles and connective tissue massage can often help to relieve the pain and even directly address some of the cause.

Such pain can be due to receptive muscle strain, imbalanced postural patterns, or old injuries.

Understanding the process by which a person reached this condition along with functional and postural analysis can provide a greater understanding the pain patterns themselves.

Massage can then be used to release restrictions, reduce trigger point patterns, and restore movement and function. The end result being the reduction and in many cases the relief from pain.

Over the years I have encountered many different conditions of chronic pain and injury which massage has successfully treated.