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Remedial Massage

Remedial massage is a complementary therapy that aims to treat damaged, knotted, tense, or immobile muscles. It can help with a variety of muscle, tendon, and bone problems, as well as a variety of other health issues.

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Remedial massage is used to locate and repair damaged areas of the body, as well as to speed up the body's natural healing processes. Depending on the problem, the pressure used in this healing treatment can be strong and deep or gentle and shallow.

Muscle problems can cause pain or radiate pain to other parts of the body. Remedial massage seeks to identify the source of the pain, addressing both the cause and the symptoms.

Who is remedial massage for?

Remedial massage can be used to help people with:

• neck, shoulder or back pain

• preventing injuries

• headaches

• sports or other injuries

• arthritis

• chronic pain

• fatigue

• anxiety or depression

• to treat the side effects of cancer, such as lymphoedema, Anxiety

• to manage the side effects of diabetes

• to help with addiction rehabilitation

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What are the health benefits of remedial massage?

Remedial massage can stimulate the blood supply, make joints more mobile, and help to repair damaged tissues. The therapist will aim to balance the length, tone and tension of muscles and tendons, which restores the correct position of the bones, increases blood flow and helps heal injuries.

Easing and stabilizing the muscles can improve problems such as headaches, abdominal pain, low back pain and sciatic pain.

Some health problems that are often treated with remedial massage include sporting and dance injuries, muscle cramps, whiplash, fibromyalgia, muscular atrophy, fibrositis, spondylitis, arthritis and frozen shoulder.

Remedial massage has also been shown to help premature infants gain weight.

Pregnancy massage

This can be used in conjunction with other alternative therapies. It takes into account the whole person and helps activate each patient’s natural healing processes as well as restoring their physical and emotional well-being.

Trigger Point Therapy and deep tissue massage

Holistic medicine is a broad range of practices based on generations of tradition. After a single session, you’ll start to see changes to your body, mind and energy levels. Contact me to find out more.

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Use of fingers, thumbs and elbows are used to release chronic muscle tension. Great for stress relief, reduce pain, lower heart rate and blood pressure.