Massage and Sports Massage Therapy can be a great treatment for pain management and relief. It is possible to avoid pain meds and instead look after your body with regular manual therapy techniques, targeted to treat your specific ailments. Clinical massage therapy or medical massage therapy can include full body massage therapy or target more local areas of the body such as foot massage therapy. We also provide a range of other manual therapies within your appointment, adapted to suit your needs.
Acupuncture, needling, taping, cupping, trigger point release, myofascial release, lymphatic drainage massage. Manual and massage therapies can not only aid recovery from injury but have been found to offer many other health benefits, for example anxiety and stress management.
The therapists at the clinic work as a team and you will often find the massage therapy treatment plan has been recommended by the physiotherapist or biomechanical clinician. We also provide lymphatic drainage massage. Lymphatic drainage massage helps to restore the lymphatic system via gentle pressure massage. The therapist is drained in this specific clinical massage therapy.
Lymphatic drainage massage is helpful to carry waste products away from the swollen tissue and back to the heart. Traditional acupuncture works on an energy lines believed to flow through the body, called the meridian lines. These small needles work to:. Trigger point release is a form of manual therapy and could be described as remedial massage therapy.
A trigger point can be thought of as areas of tight muscle fibre within a muscle. Usually with over load on the muscle which could result from over training, poor warm up technique, or poor body alignment.
