What is therapeutic massage?
Therapeutic massage is type of massage that involves assessment and muscle manipulation treatment to resolve pain, limited movement, and rehabilitates the injured muscles , tendons and connect tissues.
How is therapeutic massage performed?
Initially, RMT palpates to assess the muscle , joints and connective soft tissues that related to the pain where client is concerned.
Secondly, the RMT comes up with treatment plan approaching pain relief, joint range of motion improvment, rehabilitation post injures or surgery, reducing adhesions and shrinking scarres.
And then, the RMT will be appling massage techniques with or without massage oil according to the needs of the technique being used, to the proper soft tissue, such as stretching apply to tight muscle groups, kneading technique is used to muscle knots, trigger point release applied to tender soft tissues, deep tissue technique manipulates deep layer muscles and facia that restrict the muscle movement, friction to the scar tissues, effleurage along the swelling tissues.
At the end, the massage therapist will send you home with home care informations, such as exercises, stretching methods, diet , hydrotherapy home remedy.
Who can receive therapeutic massage?
The therapeutic massage is designed to the help people who is suffering muscles injury from physical wear and tear, post injury and rehabilitation from surgery, who is looking for restoration of muscle strength and function.
what technique does therapeutic massage use?
In many of muscle manipulation techniques , the most skill that therapeutic massage uses are deep tissue, trigger points therapy, myofascial release,kneading, joints mobility stretching, friction, hydrotherapy, lymphatic drainage.
What are the conditions that therapeutic massage treating?
Therapeutic massage commenly treats:
*Headache,
*Neck pain, stiffness,
*TOS - thoratic outlet syndrome
*Shoulder pain and stiffness,
*Torned rotator cuff,
*Back pain,
*Low back pain,
*Sciatica nerve pintching,
*Hip pain,
*Tight IT band,
*Knee pain,
*Ankle strain,
*Foot pain,
*Lymphedema,
*Constipation.