Remedial Massage

Remedial massage is a form of bodywork where your massage therapist will work or rub out the tight bands (also known as trigger points) that form in your muscles. When you muscles have bands within them, the amount of oxygen and nutrients are servery restricted causing you to have aches and pains. When muscles become knotted and tense or damaged, remedial massage provides a healing treatment that can be gentle or strong, deep or shallow.

Remedial massage holistically treats the body. The massage therapist endeavours to identify the original biomechanical dysfunction, thus healing the cause of the disorder, as well as the symptoms. Remedial massage uses several specialised techniques to locate and repair damage to muscles, tendons and joints. Massage therapy supports and speeds up the body's own repair mechanisms.

A lubricating medium (usually oil) is applied directly on the skin. This ensures that the muscles associated with the disorder are deeply penetrated. Passive joint stretching moves are also used.

Key benefits of Remedial Massage

Key benefits of remedial massage include;

• The stimulation to the blood supply allowing toxins in the muscles to be removed; the calming of the peripheral nervous system to ease pain and discomfort; and the toning and relaxing of muscles to improve joint mobility.
• An improvement to the health of the cells, the repairing of tissues, and the easing of stiffness and tension can also be experienced through therapeutic relaxation.
• Muscular and skeletal dysfunctions often addressed with remedial massage include muscle tightness and pain, arthritis, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, whiplash, neck and back pain, scoliosis, headaches and sports injuries.
• Restoring anatomical balance to the body, correcting posture.
• Whiplash injuries, which can cause severe headaches, can be addressed and resolved.
• Massage is great for stress management. 

Who can benefit from massage?

 
Everybody can!

• Babies, massage can help relieve colic and relax baby before sleep time.
• Children, knock and bumps are a part of growing up and being a child. Children that play sports can have sprains that can be massaged out of any muscle.
• Adults, men and women have so much stress to deal with nowadays, so this is a great way to help with the management of it. Increased computer work has resulted in a growing number of shoulder, neck and upper back pain, massage is a very effective treatment.
• Pregnant women, sometimes a baby can put pressure on nerves sending pain into the lower back and or down the legs. Relief can be found with the use of massage. With the use of our specially made pregnancy massage table, the tired, pregnant body can rest face down while baby and tummy are fully supported.
• Elderly, massage can increase circulation substantially.

Let’s face it, massage is just really nice.

Pregnancy Massage

Here at Kindred Health we have a specially made massage table for our pregnant patients. Some pregnant women can experience sciatic pain when their baby is positioned on the sciatic nerves, sending pain into the lower back and or down the legs. Relief can be found with the use of massage.