Medical Massage Treatment
...when you want relief
from chronic pain
Have you tried the conventional medical route and been told that you will "just have to live with it", or been offered drugs, or been referred to a psychotherapist when all you really wanted was pain relief? If you are not satisfied with the options you have been given, but still have chronic pain, please read on. We respect your knowledge about your body and know you are seeking options.
Medical massage offers hope for relief of pain which is of soft tissue origin. We work with your health care provider on the source of the pain. A recent study indicated that soft tissue pain accounts for nearly 70% of all the visits to emergency facilities. These include low back pain, migraines, and neck, shoulder or face and jaw pain.
We will ask questions and we will listen to your answers. We want to know how long you have had your pain and what you have done to alleviate the problem. We want to know what has worked and what has not. We want to know what movements you do that help or aggravate the problem. In short, we will listen and we believe you know best what is going on, because you live with the pain 24/7.
We have a name for this phenomenon, we refer to it as the "cycle of pain". Simply speaking, something happens, stress, accident or injury and the body responds by protecting the injured part with muscle spasm. Other muscles are recruited, and posture changes due to the pain. Walking and other movements change. Range of motion is lost and as a result other muscles are stressed and then spasm. So, the cycle begins again. Medical and orthopedic massage uses many methods to break the cycle of pain and begin the healing and recovery process.
