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Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduces pain and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body’s natural immune function.
Benefits:
- Reduces muscle soreness after vigorous exercise
- Identifies tight muscles reducing future injuries
- Improves range of motion, while decreasing the strain on joints
Neuromuscular therapy applies concentrated pressure to trigger points (painful irritated areas in muscles) to break the cycles of pain and spasms.
Benefits:
- Interrupts pain cycle
- Decreases muscle spasms
- Creates normal flow of blood and lymph fluid in the muscle tissues
What is Functional Fitness?
Functional fitness exercise trains your muscles to work together and prepare them for daily tasks by simulating common movements you might do at home, at work or in sports. While using various muscles in the upper and lower body at the same time, functional fitness exercises also emphasize core stability.
I utilize functional fitness training to help you create and support balance in your posture, which in turn will reduce the reoccurence of repetitive pain patterns and injuries. when you have a strong support system you are able to live a more balanced life. Programs are designed to build strength, and increase flexibility.
Developed by Aaron Mattes, Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) is a dynamic system for improving your flexibility and overall well-being. As you probably already know, stretching your muscles not only reduces your chance of injury, but also strengthens your tendons and improves your circulation.
Therapeutic Massage involves the manipulation of the muscle tissue using varied pressures and long gliding strokes.
Benefits:
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Reduces blood pressure
- Increases circulation
- Relaxes the mind and body
CranioSacral Therapy is a bodywork method that focuses on gently stimulating your CranioSacral system (membranes and fluid that surround the brain and spinal cord) to heal the body by improving the functioning of the central nervous system.CST effectively complements your body’s natural healing process, and has been known to help alleviate a wide variety of problems including:
- Central Nervous System Disorders
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- TMJ
- Fibromyalgia