Massage Therapy
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Barbara has been moving away from a massage-based practice and towards a full practice as a licensed manual osteopath. She is no longer accepting new massage clients for general full body massage. Clients looking for advanced treatments such as: T.M.J., post surgical scar tissue, trauma, or neurological conditions please let Barbara know.
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​Hands on healing from ancient times to modern science, massage therapy has stood the test of time as a solution to our aches and pains. Focused on the soft tissues of the body, massage therapy provides assessment, treatment, remedial exercises and hydrotherapy applications for recovery from injury, relief of stress and the optimizing of health and wellbeing.
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Massage therapy offers the opportunity to experience touch in a safe and compassionate setting. This takes our healing much deeper than muscle and blood.
The greatest healing that massage brings may be found in the profound human need for touch.
Massage therapy is used to treat whiplash, headaches, carpal tunnel, anxiety, frozen shoulder, sciatica, aching feet, arthritis, bursitis, TMJ and many other conditions. Clients of all ages can benefit whether seeking relief of infant colic or wry neck, the discomforts of pregnancy, varicose veins, sore backs or the conditions of degenerative disks, and neurological conditions.
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The greatest healing that massage brings may be found not in the above list, but in the profound human need for touch. Massage therapy offers the opportunity to experience touch in a safe and compassionate setting. This takes our healing much deeper than muscle and blood. Safe touch, well, it touches the soul, the emotional body and holds the possibility for body mind integration. Therapeutic touch through the medium of massage offers healing from trauma, PTSD, grief and loss. It is for this reason that I continue to offer massage along with the more advanced work of craniosacral therapy and manual osteopathy.
Much has been written about the many ways massage acts on the body to bring about healing. Muscles are lengthened and stretched, relieving pain and numbness. Joint range is improved through the breaking down of adhesions and the realigning of proper movement patterns. Scar tissue can be softened to improve freedom of movement or treatment can be focused on restoring lymphatic flow. Circulation of both the lymph and the blood is improved by mechanically pushing the fluids back to toward the heart or lymph nodes and by reducing the constriction of tight muscles or congested regions. The nervous system can be calmed to reduce stress or stimulated to aid in the recovery from stroke paralysis. These are but a few examples of the effects and benefits of massage.
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