Massage Therapy Services

Sports massage is essential for attaining your body’s maximum performance. By relaxing the muscles around your joints and ligaments, you’ll experience better flexibility, range of motion, and accuracy which will also help you to avoid injury while performing or training. By manipulating muscle fibers and layers of facia, massage causes tissues to flood with fresh blood, facilitating the elimination of lactic acid and other waste products produced by your body. This results in faster muscle development, recovery, and more effective weight loss and body toning.

When I meet with any client—especially for the first time—I start with a conversation about how their body feels and how they use their body on a daily basis. This conversation informs the sort of massage I perform and where I focus my hands-on time during your appointment. Because each sport has different demands on the body, understanding your sport will help, so please be prepared to explain everything you can about the sports you play.

Many of my clients seek me out to help them recover from a recent physical trauma like an injury or surgical procedure. While each injury is a little different, recovering from an injury or surgery, your body is likely to undergo a reasonably predictable set of symptoms and behaviors. Most physical traumas cause the body to flood with cortisol, lactic acid, and other natural chemicals causing both localized and non-localized aching and muscular tension. Meanwhile, your lymph glands swell with white blood cells and antibodies in an effort to prevent infection. Massage is a natural remedy to these problems. Massage relaxes the tension in your body while encouraging your metabolic system to flush out metabolic waste while helping your body repair itself. Simultaneously, the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system encourages further healing and a sense of physical and emotional wellbeing and positivity.

All massage clients are unique so, as I do with all of my clients, our first session will begin with a conversation about your condition. To prepare for your appointment, please consider bringing any relevant information about your condition from your doctor, and I will need to know about any medications you’re using during your recovery.

During, or within the first year after pregnancy, your body goes through significant changes. These changes can bring pain, discomfort, and emotional challenges like post-partum depression. By activating the parasympathetic nervous system, perinatal massage helps your muscles relax from the tension and cramping that pregnancy can cause, and improves mood and disposition, helping to fight the effects of postpartum pain and depression. Meanwhile, massage also helps a perinatal person’s metabolic system, facilitating blood flow and helping to balance out hormones, reduce swelling, and flush metabolic waste. Perinatal massage is not intended to interfere with the fetus, however, by relaxing the muscles in the abdomen, can aid in fetal positioning or postpartum abdominal recovery.

As with every client, especially on their first visit, I will start our session with a conversation about how you’re feeling and ask about your current medical condition. It’s helpful to know about any medications you’re on, and parts of your body that feel sensitive or painful. Be sure to mention anything you’ve noticed about your body’s movement or range of motion.

I know it sounds weird, but when you think about it, a lot of your health concerns start with your mouth. Intraoral massage affects nerves and tissues around the mouth, jaw, and throat, including the related glands and lymph nodes. This is great for managing the symptoms of TMJ and can help relieve swelling, headaches, and migraines.

As with every client, especially on their first visit, I start your appointment with a conversation. I will ask about everything that is getting in the way of you feeling your best. I will let you know if I feel that intraoral massage can help. For more information click the button below.

Deep tissue massage focuses on realigning deeper layers of muscles and connective tissue and is at the core of most of the work I do. I use this technique to address issues like stiff neck, sore shoulders, upper back pain, lower back pain, and leg cramps/tightness. Deep-tissue massage reduces inflammation, activates the parasympathetic ner system, encourages activity in the metabolic system, and helps to eliminate internal scar tissue which facilitates better muscular development.

When I meet with any client—especially for the first time—I start with a conversation about how their body feels and how they use their body on a daily basis. This conversation informs the sort of massage I perform and where I focus my hands-on time during your appointment. Because each person uses their body in a different way, understanding the way you use your body will help, so please be prepared to explain everything you can about the work you do and how you use your body.

This form of massage is what you might think of when you imagine spa massage. Swedish massage is intended to be relaxing, gentle, and addresses the outermost layers of the body. This has an effect on the subcutaneous layers of the skin, and subcutaneous layer. This form of massage can be more brief, but still activates the parasympathetic nervous system and has a calming effect on the mind and body which can have a marvelous effect on mood and disposition. While my most effective work focuses on deeper tissues, sometimes a light touch is all you need, and I’m happy to help.