Remedial Massage Therapy
Stress, overworking and muscle pains are common things that you may suffer from in your daily life. As a result, it can cause adverse effects (either physically or mentally) and impact on overall quality of life (e.g. it may affect sleep, work or mood). This is where massage therapy can assist with offsetting these effects. Massage therapy is a type of non-invasive and low-risk treatment that manipulates the soft tissues in the body (muscles, connective tissue, tendons) with the intent of improving your health and sense of wellbeing. More specifically, it can mainly help with relaxation and reduce pain, as well as various other benefits (see below).
- Improves mood and emotional states through relaxation (reducing stress and anxiety levels)
- Increase blood circulation and reduces fatigue
- Relieves pain and decrease stiffness, tightness, spasms
- Reducing DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) – where muscle pain occurs 24 hours after exercise
- Break down of scar tissue and adhesions
- Improves range of motion
- Good for injury management/rehabilitation (in conjunction with other treatments)
- Improves the quality of life
- Increases blood circulation of the body – muscles, skins, organs
- Helpful in decreasing oedema (excessive fluid in the tissues) or swelling around a joint
- Trigger Point Release – applied on trigger points or ‘knots’
- Myofascial Release
- Compression – direct pressure on the area that is to be treated
- Petrissage – kneading
- Effleurage – light stroking or gliding
- Friction
If you have a condition that is listed below, please inform the therapist about it beforehand or avoid booking a massage session unless you have written medical clearance from a doctor. While massage therapy is helpful, your safety and health are paramount (we definitely do not want to make your condition worse) and we also need to make sure that our therapists are safe as well.
- Burns
- Thrombosis (deep vein thrombosis in the calf) – where a blood clot is blocking a vein
- Varicose veins
- Tears or ruptures (either muscle, tendon or ligaments) or fractures
- Open wounds, lesions or sores
- Recent surgery
- Cancer
- Tumours
- Any kind of inflammation (especially if it is recent or major) – rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, recent injuries
- Severe pain
- Fever
- Contagious/infectious diseases – such as the common cold/flu
- Skin diseases
- High blood pressure
