Remedial Massage Therapy
If you’re in pain, feeling tight or restricted in movement, Remedial Massage is usually the first step. This helps reduce pain, release overworked muscles and improve mobility, while also allowing me to assess your body and identify any underlying movement limitations. When appropriate, Dry Needling is used to accelerate muscle release and improve activation for faster results.
Even though it’s often the starting point, Remedial Massage remains available at any stage of your journey to support recovery, maintain mobility and boost the results of your mobility or strength work. It lays the foundation for safer, more effective movement moving forward.
Even though it’s often the starting point, Remedial Massage remains available at any stage of your journey to support recovery, maintain mobility and enhance the results of your mobility or strength work. It creates the ideal foundation for the next step, Functional Mobility, where we build on this progress by moving from passive treatment into active control, helping your body move well, not just feel better.
Techniques and tools that you can benefit from during the treatments:
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Remedial Massage is a specialised type of massage that helps address issues in the body. It can help with new injuries, long-lasting issues, or occasional troubles like headaches or muscle aches.
Remedial massage is the safest way to treat things like jaw pain, neck pain, shoulder injuries, back issues, joint sprains, muscle strains, and more.
In this type of massage, the therapist uses a combination of various techniques, including Dry Needling, Myofascial Release, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point Therapy, and a range of stretching methods, among others, tailored to your specific needs.
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People wonder about the difference between Sports and Remedial Massage, but usually, there isn’t much. It depends on the therapists’ knowledge of sports and exercise.
Sports Massage is for people who play sports or exercise a lot. Before and after games, the massage is lighter, like a warm-up. If there is an injury, the massage is similar to a Remedial massage.
Sports Massage keeps muscles healthy and flexible, reducing the chance of getting hurt. It also helps you recover faster, so you don’t hurt for days after exercising.
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Deep Tissue Massage uses a strong pressure on muscles and fascia. Long, deep techniques increase blood flow and release tension.
The pressure tells the nerves to relax muscles, making them feel less tight and stiff. This kind of massage can also lower inflammation and pain.
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Active Soft Tissue Mobilization:
This is when you move your body parts on your own during the massage. It’s like gentle exercises guided by the therapist.Passive Soft Tissue Mobilization:
Here, the therapist moves your body parts for you. You relax while they do the work. -
Active Stretching:
This is when you do the stretching yourself. The massage therapist will guide you, but you are the one moving your muscles.Passive Stretching:
In this case, the therapist helps move your body parts to stretch your muscles. You relax, and they do the stretching for you.
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Dry needling is when thin needles go into muscles, ligaments, or tendons. It helps with tight muscles and ones that are in spasm.
The needles are like tiny, accurate thumbs. They boost blood flow like a massage does, but more precisely.
Dry needling is different from acupuncture. It's based on Western anatomy and medicine, not Chinese medicine. It focuses only on muscle and bone problems, not other issues like acupuncture does.
During dry needling, a needle goes into a muscle and makes it twitch. This means the muscle is letting go. The needling keeps going until the twitch stops. Sometimes, you might feel the twitch somewhere else in your body during treatment.
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Myofascial Release is a kind of bodywork that looks at the body as a whole. In fact, “Myo” means muscle, and “Fascia” is the connective tissue holding our body together like a web. So is very common, that if you have pain in one area, it might be from a problem in another connected area. A skillful therapist will find the issue/s and use specific techniques or tools to help the body heal, reduce pain, and restore normal function.
Myofascial Release is a safe and useful treatment for joint sprains, muscle strains, tight muscles, aches, limited movement, headaches, jaw pain, back pain, neck pain, shoulder injuries, and more.
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Trigger Point Therapy uses pressure to calm sensitive spots in muscles. These spots can make pain travel to other body parts. For instance, a sore spot in your neck can cause a headache. If the neck spot is released, the headache goes away.
A skilled therapist will find and ease many of those spots, helping you feel better.
Trigger Point Therapy is a safe way to treat things like pain in your jaw, neck, shoulder, and back, or for joint sprains, muscle strains, tight muscles, and aching muscles.
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Cupping uses special cups on trigger or pressure points. These cups create suction, lifting the tissue (skin, fascia, fat, muscle) instead of pushing it down. This is unique because most massage presses the tissue. Cups can stay in one spot or move/glide around.
Cupping may leave round bruises that show blood flow and help to heal. This is normal, painless, and usually goes away in a week.
Myofascial cupping moves cups to stretch muscles and fascia, usually without leaving bruises.
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It’s like a team work stretch. The therapist helps you stretch a muscle, and then you push against their hand to make the muscle even more flexible. It’s a bit like a game of give-and-take to make your muscles feel better.
PNF stands for “Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation”. It’s a fancy way of saying a type of stretching that involves your muscles and nerves working together. In simpler terms, PNF stretching helps your muscles become more flexible by combining stretching with some gentle muscle contraction.
When scheduling a session, remember that you only need to book the duration. We charge based on time, and all our services can be combined within a single session depending on your needs.