What is Clinical Massage?

Clinical Massage is focused on addressing a medical need. It requires a different sort of approach. The types of techniques used will often differ because of the purpose of the visit. During a spa visit, you typically enjoy a Swedish Massage that's often a more basic routine provided for your full-body relaxation. However, during a Clinical Massage, a professional may use a broader set of modalities, such as Trigger Point Therapy or Myofascial Release, as a means to assist muscle recovery. If you're recovering from an injury, these techniques can be uncomfortable and possibly painful. Like physical therapy, this discomfort is unavoidable, but serves the greater purpose in your recovery and healing.

You will always find a difference in the suggested frequency of your massage visits. Because there is a clinical plan designed for your massage treatment, you'll have specific goals for your recovery that may involve measuring your range of mobility and strength. These will often include a series of timed visits where you are given time to heal in between visits.

Why a Clinical Massage?

Clinical Massage’s purpose is to provide movement-based manual therapy to help restore range of motion, break up scar tissue, release muscle adhesions, increase blood flow and reduce chronic and acute pain. Our definition of Clinical Massage is specific to manual therapies tailored to address the musculoskeletal system in particular which includes muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, bones, fascia and nerves. As a substitute for or complement to traditional treatments such as medications, injections and surgery, manual therapies can be of great help in preventing and recovering from a wide range of sports injuries and pain including:

• Low Back Pain

• TMJ Dysfunction

• Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

• Sciatica

• Shoulder Impingement

• Whiplash

• Tendonitis / Tendonopathy

• Plantar Fasciitis

• Arthritis

• Muscle Strains

• Headaches

• Muscle Cramping