Remedial Massage

Remedial Massage

Remedial massage is a targeted treatment aimed to reduce and alleviate pain and discomfort, and focuses on addressing specific musculoskeletal problems and injuries. It is designed to treat muscles, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissues to aid in recovery and rehabilitation.

How can you benefit from Remedial Massage?

Stress, poor posture, overused and tight muscles can be the cause of a lot of pain and discomfort in the body. They can pull the joints out of alignment restricting movement, press on nerves causing tingling and numbness and put tendons under tension and restrict circulation.

Pain relief

Remedial Massage can provide pain relief and assist to reduce or alleviate pain and discomfort, stiffness, or tightness, tension or cramps by targeting the specific area as well as addressing the cause.

It remedies conditions sciatica, tendonitis, and repetitive strain injuries and assist in managing chronic conditions by alleviating symptoms and contributing factors associated with them in natural way.

Injury recovery

Remedial Massage is not only therapeutic but also rehabilitative, aiming to restore optimal function and well-being to the affected area of the body. It assist with injury recovery by facilitating faster recovery after injuries or strains and can improve range of movement and joint mobility, or can help break down painful scar tissue.

Overall wellbeing

Beyond symptom management, regular remedial massage treatments can contribute to a sense of well-being and improved quality of life by enhancing mood, reducing fatigue, and promoting a sense of relaxation and rejuvenation.

It is known to reduce stress and feelings of anxiety by lowering cortisol levels and calming the peripheral nervous system that is responsible for the rest and digest function of the body. Which lower blood pressure, improve digestive functioning and enhances better quality of sleep to name a few.

Pregnancy

During and after pregnancy the body undergoes a lot of hormonal and postural changes that put a strain on the body.

Remedial massage can be tailored to into a prenatal massage to help you find relief from pregnancy discomforts, reduces stress and anxiety during this changing time and help with a good night sleep.

A postnatal massage is designed to support your recovery and wellness after childbirth.

For assistant with pre and post pregnancy-related symptoms learn more here.

What to expect

By applying pressure and manual techniques and trigger points to your problem area remedial massage is stimulating circulation of blood and lymph and breaking down knots, which lead to pain relief and relaxing or releasing tight and overused muscles.

If you feel stuck or restricted, lengthening and passive stretching techniques or tapotement to tight or tense muscles and connective tissue, as well as gentle mobilisation of the joint through its range of motion, will improve functioning enabling you to move freely without discomfort.

Myth buster: Remedial massage doesn’t have to hard and hurt badly to be effective. It is important to respect the body and treat it in a safe way.

Yet, it isn’t uncommon to get sore after a massage like you would after a workout, but that should not last more than 2-3 days, feeling so much better!

If you experience pain, tension or have a muscular injury as a result of an accident, overuse of a muscle group, repetitive strain or you’ve recently had surgery, remedial massage can be a natural ‘remedy’ for healing.

Our goal is to help you achieve yours. Put yourself in good hands.