Deep Tissue Massage
Deep Tissue massage is designed to relieve severe tension in the muscle and the connective tissue or fascia. This type of massage focuses on the muscles located below the surface of the top muscles. Deep tissue massage is often recommended for individuals who experience consistent pain, are involved in heavy physical activity, such as athletes, and patients who have sustained physical injury. It is also not uncommon for receivers of Deep Tissue Massage to become sore or even bruised over the next few days, this generally feels like you’ve had a good workout and will subside over a few days, leaving the muscles feeling looser and less painful.
Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)
Is a form of massage. It is distinguished from other types of massage in that a quasi-static pressure is applied to the skin with the aim of stimulating specific areas of skeletal muscle. Often these areas of muscle are myofascial trigger points.
How Neuromuscular Therapy Can Reduce Muscle Pain
Muscles that are in spasm will be painful to the touch. The pain is caused by ischemic muscle tissue. Ischemia means the muscle is lacking proper blood flow, usually due to the muscle spasm. This in turn creates the following undesirable process:
Neuromuscular therapy will feel painful at first, but the pressure of the massage should alleviate the muscle spasm. The massage therapy pressure will never be overly painful. In fact, most people describe the pressure as “good pain”.
Myofascial Release
The fascial system is totally one structure that is present from your head to foot without any interruption. It is a seamless web of connective tissue that covers and connects the muscles, organs, and skeletal structures, located between the skin and the underlying structure of muscle and bone.
The fascia is manipulated, directly or indirectly, to allow the connective tissue fibers to reorganise themselves in a more flexible, functional fashion.
Injuries, stress, inflammation, trauma, and poor posture can cause restriction to fascia. Since fascia is an interconnected web, the restriction or tightness to fascia at a place, with time can spread to other places in the body like a pull in a sweater.The goal of myofascial release is to release fascia restriction and restore its tissue health.
Joint Mobilisation
Is a type of passive movement of a skeletal joint. It is usually aimed at a 'target' synovial joint with the aim of achieving a therapeutic effect. When applied to the spine, it is known as spinal mobilisation
Spinal mobilisation is a type of passive movement of a spinal segment or region. It is a gentle, often oscillatory, passive movement applied to a spinal region or segment so as gently to increase the passive range of motion of that segment or region.
Muscle Energy Technique
Is used in osteopathic medicine and physical therapy to treat somatic dysfunction presenting as loss of range of motion secondary to muscular inhibition.
Muscle Energy is an Active (requires patient utilization of force) Direct (engages the barrier) technique that promotes muscle relaxation by activating the golgi tendon reflex.
Purpose is to gain motion that is limited by restrictions of neuromuscular structures.
Deep Tissue massage is designed to relieve severe tension in the muscle and the connective tissue or fascia. This type of massage focuses on the muscles located below the surface of the top muscles. Deep tissue massage is often recommended for individuals who experience consistent pain, are involved in heavy physical activity, such as athletes, and patients who have sustained physical injury. It is also not uncommon for receivers of Deep Tissue Massage to become sore or even bruised over the next few days, this generally feels like you’ve had a good workout and will subside over a few days, leaving the muscles feeling looser and less painful.
Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)
Is a form of massage. It is distinguished from other types of massage in that a quasi-static pressure is applied to the skin with the aim of stimulating specific areas of skeletal muscle. Often these areas of muscle are myofascial trigger points.
How Neuromuscular Therapy Can Reduce Muscle Pain
Muscles that are in spasm will be painful to the touch. The pain is caused by ischemic muscle tissue. Ischemia means the muscle is lacking proper blood flow, usually due to the muscle spasm. This in turn creates the following undesirable process:
- Because the muscle is not receiving enough blood, the muscle is also not receiving enough oxygen
- The lack of oxygen causes the muscle to produce lactic acid
- The lactic acid makes the muscle feel sore following physical activity.
Neuromuscular therapy will feel painful at first, but the pressure of the massage should alleviate the muscle spasm. The massage therapy pressure will never be overly painful. In fact, most people describe the pressure as “good pain”.
Myofascial Release
The fascial system is totally one structure that is present from your head to foot without any interruption. It is a seamless web of connective tissue that covers and connects the muscles, organs, and skeletal structures, located between the skin and the underlying structure of muscle and bone.
The fascia is manipulated, directly or indirectly, to allow the connective tissue fibers to reorganise themselves in a more flexible, functional fashion.
Injuries, stress, inflammation, trauma, and poor posture can cause restriction to fascia. Since fascia is an interconnected web, the restriction or tightness to fascia at a place, with time can spread to other places in the body like a pull in a sweater.The goal of myofascial release is to release fascia restriction and restore its tissue health.
Joint Mobilisation
Is a type of passive movement of a skeletal joint. It is usually aimed at a 'target' synovial joint with the aim of achieving a therapeutic effect. When applied to the spine, it is known as spinal mobilisation
Spinal mobilisation is a type of passive movement of a spinal segment or region. It is a gentle, often oscillatory, passive movement applied to a spinal region or segment so as gently to increase the passive range of motion of that segment or region.
Muscle Energy Technique
Is used in osteopathic medicine and physical therapy to treat somatic dysfunction presenting as loss of range of motion secondary to muscular inhibition.
Muscle Energy is an Active (requires patient utilization of force) Direct (engages the barrier) technique that promotes muscle relaxation by activating the golgi tendon reflex.
Purpose is to gain motion that is limited by restrictions of neuromuscular structures.
Exercise Prescription
Providing an evidence based exercise prescription service to restore movement and function to help you achieve your health and performance goals.
Providing an evidence based exercise prescription service to restore movement and function to help you achieve your health and performance goals.