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Massage and Common Muscular Injuries in Contact Sports
This Sunday, the majority of America will gather around our televisions to watch two teams take the field and...experience injuries. It’s unavoidable in the athletic professions, especially in contact sports like football. In our practice, we treat muscular injuries...
Benefits of Massage on Postpartum Depression and Living
It’s believed that an average of around one million women - about ⅔ of new mothers - every year will suffer from postpartum depression (PPD). Postpartum depression is a condition which can begin near the end of the pregnancy and develop up to several weeks afterward....
What You Need to Know About RockBlade® IASTM
Some injuries cause adhesions deep within the muscle and fascia where therapist need assistance to locate and treat the affected area properly. That’s where IASTM comes into play. IASTM (Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization) is any type of massage therapy...
Combating 9-5 Muscles: Soreness from Your Desk Job and How to Fight It
Work which avoids physical labor is not absent of sore, stressed muscles. About 80% of jobs in America are sedentary, meaning we’re strapped to our desks for a majority of the day, or our duties don’t involve heavy lifting. We sit hunched over our...
How Massage Aids in PTSD Treatment
A physically taxing experience isn’t the only way to strain and damage your musculature system. There is so much we don’t know about the brain, but we do know that there is a connection between our mental and our physical health: when something causes a detriment to...
Athletes: Deep Tissue or Sports Massage?
You’ve just completed your biggest event of the year. You pushed yourself to the limit, played defense or offense as though your life depended on it, ran your personal best, or scored a record number of baskets or touchdowns, and now your muscles are torn to pieces....